Quotes about life and people

„Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.“

— Tom Hiddleston English actor, producer and musical performer 1981

„Don't judge people on who they used to be. Allow them to be who they are. See them «now». Not «then». “

— Tom Hiddleston English actor, producer and musical performer 1981

„This generation has lost the true meaning of romance. There are so many songs that disrespect women. You can’t treat the woman you love as a piece of meat. You should treat your love like a princess. Give her love songs, something with real meaning. Maybe I’m old fashioned but to respect the woman you love should be a priority.“

— Tom Hiddleston English actor, producer and musical performer 1981

„Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.“

— Leonard Bernstein American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist 1918 - 1990

„Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.“

— Charles Fort American writer 1874 - 1932

„I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly. On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?“

— Sharon Tate actress, victim of murder by Charles Manson followers 1943 - 1969

Quoted in Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders (2000), by Greg King

„Administration, which calls for the application of wide knowledge and many personal qualities, is above all the art of handling men, and in this art, as in many others, it is practice that makes perfect. This is one of the reasons why we should release our future engineers for practical work as early as possible; there are many drawbacks to staying too long at school.“

— Henri Fayol Developer of Fayolism 1841 - 1925

p. 909

„Few men think; yet all have opinions.“

— George Berkeley, book Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous

Philonous to Hylas. The Second Dialogue. This appears in a passage first added in the third edition, (1734)
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1713)

„What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.“

— Luke the Evangelist, Gospel of Luke

16:15 NIV
Gospel of Luke

„Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.“

— Jamie Zawinski American programmer 1968

alt.religion.emacs http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=33F0C496.370D7C45%40netscape.com (lost; recovered http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247)
Attributed

„Life is a winking light in the darkness.“

— Hayao Miyazaki, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Original: (ja) 命は闇の中のまたたく光だ。

„Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.“

— Idi Amin third president of Uganda 1925 - 2003

Quoted in The Evil 100 (2004) by Martin Gilman Wolcott, p. 78.
Attributed

„By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.“

— Arthur Rimbaud French Decadent and Symbolist poet 1854 - 1891

Variant: Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
Source: Selected Poems and Letters

„I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.“

— Rosa Parks African-American civil rights activist 1913 - 2005

„When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.“

— Karl Lagerfeld German fashion designer 1933 - 2019

„In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.“

— Thorstein Veblen, book The Theory of the Leisure Class

Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 23

„You must remember always to give, of everything you have. You must give foolishly even. You must be extravagant. You must give to all who come into your life. Then nothing and no one shall have power to cheat you of anything, for if you give to a thief, he cannot steal from you, and he himself is then no longer a thief. And the more you give, the more you will have to give.“

— William Saroyan, book The Human Comedy

The Human Comedy (1943)

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„Your entire heart has been scarred through the years; seek the healer who heightens the senses and helps you feel alive. There, you will find the medicine to mend the wounds and restore life.“

— RJ Intindola (Gandolfo)

2005

„Yeah. The guy's up against massive challenges, dealing with consequences, and figuring how to get what he wants and what he believes is right. He's living his worst nightmare, and he's doing everything he can. He's a damn good lawyer and he knows the system, but he's having to pull jokers out of his sleeve and win certain things on sheer willpower and gamble and meddle, you know? So that's what dramas allow, more so than a comedy. It's real-life consequences. The blows, the punches really hurt. The bullets really land. The people really bleed. People really cry. People really enjoy victory. People really feel pain and defeat. You can love harder. You can cry harder. You can be more angry, harder. That's what dramas allow.“

— Matthew McConaughey American actor 1969

" Exclusive interview with Matthew Mcconaughey http://www.hollywood.com/news/movies/7774937/exclusive-interview-with-matthew-mcconaughey?page=all" on hollywood.com, March 18, 2011: On playing Mick Haller in the The Lincoln Lawyer