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People Quotes by David McCullough
- People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or…
- Housetops were covered with 'gazers'; all wharves that offered a view were jammed with people ... As British officers happily reminded one another, it was…
- Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.
- People often ask me if I'm working on a book. That's not how I feel. I feel like I work in a book. It's like…
- History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil,…
- Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.
- When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had…
- To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college…
- People ask me when I start one of these projects, what is your theme? I havent the faintest idea. Thats why youre writing the book,…
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle