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People Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin
- If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.
- Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.
- People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.
- Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.
- Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.
- Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just…
- If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
- We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.
- People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.
- Forget about calories — everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.
- People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.
- Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.
- The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone — until they do.
- It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
- We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
- There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
- The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
- We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.
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