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People Quotes by Jonathan Franzen
- When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world and its problems…
- If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and those…
- It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you…
- Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.
- I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I…
- When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness…
- If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very…
- If you look at the New Testament, it's a gospel of love. Yes, there's talk of judgement and there's talk of heaven and there's talk…
- It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.
- She wondered: How could people respond to these images if images didn't secretly enjoy the same status as real things? Not that images were so…
- Deploring other people--their lack of perfection--had always been our sport.
- He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable…
- Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.
- Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control…
- Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with…
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