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People Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or listening to recorded…
- Somebody who had read Lila asked me, ‘Why do you write about the problem of loneliness?’ I said: ‘It’s not a problem. It’s a condition.…
- Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.
- The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.
- It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.
- It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God…
- She conceived of life as a road down which one traveled, an easy enough road through a broad country, and that one's destination was there…
- People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it,…
- People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in what you do,…
- It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years…
- These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to…
- Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a…
- It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it .…
- To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human saga. Sometimes I…
- Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you…
- I have always liked the phrase "nursing a grudge " because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts.
- The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it was the best thing in life, that…
- That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you coming. And then sometimes those…
- One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.
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