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People Quotes by Saul Bellow
- People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
- Conquered people tend to be witty.
- Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings,…
- Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already…
- ...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old…
- And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.
- Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.
- I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people -- either like…
- Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of things.
- It seems hard for the American people to believe that anything could be more exciting than the times themselves. What we read daily and view…
- Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.
- In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for instance, or about…
- It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them…
- Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety.…
- One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it…
- The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you…
- It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.
- And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you…
- People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
- Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love people the more…
- Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.
- I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and…
- In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions.…
- Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
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