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People Quotes by Philip Roth
- People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.
- It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.
- Many of the Kiwis appearing in powerful business circles around the world come from accounting backgrounds. Yet often people have preset ideas of how an…
- I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.
- The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong…
- Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can…
- You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.
- The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise.…
- And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.
- People were standing up everywhere shouting, "This is me! This is me!" Every time you looked at them they stood up and told you who…
- American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy,…
- There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you…
- That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that at times they…
- I’m interested in what people do with the chaos in their lives and how they respond to it, and simultaneously what they do with what…
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