
“Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.”
“Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.”
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
“People decide what you're like before they even get to know you”
Source: Everything I Never Told You
“My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don’t, and that’s what makes them more precious.”
Source: Palace of Stone
“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”
“I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.”
“Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks.”
Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding
“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
Si 50 millions de personnes disent une bêtise, c'est quand même une bêtise.
As quoted in Listening and Speaking : A Guide to Effective Oral Communication https://books.google.com/books?redir_esc=y&hl=es&id=0CcWYwjwyRgC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=foolish (1954) by Ralph G. Nichols and Thomas R. Lewis, p. 74
Also misattributed to Bertrand Russell, by Laurence J. Peter, in The Peter Prescription : How To Make Things Go Right (1976), but he subsequently attributed to France in Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977).
Derived variant: If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook (1949), entry for 1901
Variant: If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
“What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.”
“If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?”
Source: The Joy Luck Club
“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
“As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.”
Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
As quoted in The Money Adventure (1998) by Egbert Sukop, p. 128
Source: The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take
“Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.”
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
Source: All for Love
“Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.”
Source: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
“Boy, you just can't kill people like you used to”
Source: School's Out—Forever
“The world is full of good people who do bad things!”
Foreword to Radio Replies Vol. 1, (1938) page ix
Variant: There are not over a hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions, however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church.
“I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.”
“Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated.”
Conversation with Whitman (16 May 1888) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/disciples/traubel/WWWiC/1/med.00001.49.html by Horace Traubel, Vol. I <!-- p. 166 -->
Context: There was a kind of labor agitator here today—a socialist, or something like that: young, a rather beautiful boy — full of enthusiasms: the finest type of the man in earnest about himself and about life. I was sorry to see him come: I am somehow afraid of agitators, though I believe in agitation: but I was more sorry to see him go than come. Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated. … Cheer! cheer! Is there anything better in this world anywhere than cheer — just cheer? Any religion better? — any art? Just cheer!
“The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.”
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“If two people are meant to be, they'll find their way to each other.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
Washington Post, October 2012 http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/exhaustion-is-not-a-status-symbol/2012/10/02/19d27aa8-0cba-11e2-bb5e-492c0d30bff6_story_2.html
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.”
Apology for Smectymnuus (1642), section VIII
Source: An apology for Smectymnuus with the reason of church-government by John Milton ...
Context: So little care they of beasts to make them men, that by their sorcerous doctrine of formalities, they take the way to transform them out of Christian men into judaizing beasts. Had they but taught the land, or suffered it to be taught, as Christ would it should have been in all plenteous dispensation of the word, then the poor mechanic might have so accustomed his ear to good teaching, as to have discerned between faithful teachers and false. But now, with a most inhuman cruelty, they who have put out the people’s eyes, reproach them of their blindness; just as the Pharisees their true fathers were wont, who could not endure that the people should be thought competent judges of Christ’s doctrine, although we know they judged far better than those great rabbis: yet “this people,” said they, “that know not the law is accursed.”
Source: Faking It
Source: The Interpretation of Cultures (1973), p. 29
“The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.”
“Half the American people never read a newspaper. Half never vote for President — the same half?”
Sometimes quoted as: Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for president. One hopes it is the same half.
[Bill, Maxwell, http://www.sptimes.com/2002/07/07/Columns/In_gloomy_times__let_.shtml, In gloomy times, let's try to find a sense of humor, St. Petersberg Times, 2002-07-07, 2008-10-04]
Variant: Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Source: 1990s, Screening History (1992), Ch. 1: The Prince and the Pauper, p. 5
“You never know which people will affect your life.”
Source: D is for Deadbeat
“The truth is… you think what people want you to think.”
Source: Haunted
Remarks During Signing of Defense Bill http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/aug/06/uselections2004.usa2 (5 August 2004).
2000s, 2004
Source: Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself