Best People Talk Proverbs
336 People Talk quotes by 294 unique authors
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.
— Bob Dylan
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Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your…
— Eve Ensler
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People talk about medium. What is your medium? My medium as a writer has been dirt, clay, sand--what I could touch, hold, stand on, and…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.
— Rita Mae Brown
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That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.
— Paulo Coelho
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It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity…
— Douglas Adams
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People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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To hear people talk, you would think no one ever did anything but love each other. But when you look for it, when you search…
— Paul Murray
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People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have…
— Osamu Dazai
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People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years,…
— John Green
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People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and…
— Neil Gaiman
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I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire—well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy and full of…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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What good is talking if neither of you are really committed? If one of you had an affair or got addicted to drugs or was…
— Nicholas Sparks
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In the dime stores and bus stations People talk of situations Read books, repeat quotations Draw conclusions on the wall Some speak of the future…
— Bob Dylan
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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such…
— Oscar Wilde
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He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was…
— James Salter
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People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when…
— Neil Gaiman
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Remember, if people talk about you behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead of them.
— Fannie Flagg
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People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.
— Veronica Roth
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People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act…
— Margaret Chase Smith
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I've made hundreds of legendary records that people talk about that didn't sell.
— Jerry Wexler
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People talk about the businesses of the future needing to be more agile and more responsive if they are to be successful. But this requires…
— Andrew Curry
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