People Quote by William Golding Download Open image ““He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.”” — William Golding ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare People
“Nothing was what you thought it was, because no one was who they pretended to be.” — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“...he was reminded over and over how the best part about living was that others could not know your thoughts...” — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t tell what I really thought until I explained it aloud to someone and heard what I said.” — David Walton Copy Share Image
“People never believed of others what they couldn't imagine of themselves.” — Meljean Brook Copy Share Image
“I couldn't decide how to feel about what he was saying, whether it was all nonsense or just more evidence that I would never… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“people saw what they wanted to, expected to, and so rarely what was.” — Lauren Gilley Copy Share Image
“He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I saw how pure, in a way, they were – no matter what they had done. Each in their own way they had tried… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“He'd already realized that he could not begin to understand the things men did; now he saw women were even harder to figure out.… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I guess I had all kinds of ideas about him, but they weren't really him, they were just what I made him in my… — May Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
“But, mind you, very few people would understand that point of view. Most people, you see, haven't got any imagination” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“More than anything, I wanted someone to understand what was inside me.” — Jennifer Laurens Copy Share Image
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Once more, amid the breeze, the shouting, the slanting sunlight on the high mountain, was shed that glamour, that strange invisible light of friendship,… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“There ought to be some mode of life where all love is good, where one love can't compete with another but adds to it.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“I stood, in shame and confusion, seeing for the first time despite my anger a different picture of Evie in her life-long struggle to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop him hollering.… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible. — William Golding Copy Share Image
“He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop… — William Golding Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
