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People Quotes by John Dos Passos
- People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.
- Why, lies are like a sticky juice overspreading the world, a living, growing flypaper to catch and gum the wings of every human soul. .…
- U.S.A. is the speech of the people
- The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and…
- The people of this country are too tolerant. There's no other country in the world where they'd allow it... After all we built up this…
- A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the…
- I dont think there is anything on earth more wonderful than those wistful incomplete friendships one makes now and then in an hour's talk. You…
- The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort…
- In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans . . . From being a wordminded people we are…
- If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the…
- A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin or…
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