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People Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.
- The worst thing about religion was religious people.
- Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a…
- What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and…
- He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long…
- And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time,…
- Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the…
- I was beginning to understand something about normality. Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could…
- I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different…
- Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to…
- If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.
- That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.” That’s…
- In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the…
- College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their…
- People don't save other people. People save themselves.
- It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.
- What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met…
- Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see…
- Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had her whole life…
- Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine…
- We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it--that makes no sense. What…
- It was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls,…
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