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People Quotes by William Faulkner
- People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
- When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don't really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say,…
- The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no…
- People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a…
- People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is…
- The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.
- Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty they…
- Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that…
- I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue...
- Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would…
- He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word…
- It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.
- I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and…
- One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray…
- ...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to…
- Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no…
- She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.
- Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot…
- As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will…
- They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as…
- People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
- That's sad too, people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful…
- I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to…
- They say love dies between two people. That’s wrong. It doesn’t die. It just leaves you, goes away, if you aren’t good enough, worthy enough.…
- Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was -…
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