It was strange to see the keenness with which men had tried to order, constrain, and systematize human passions, jealousy, rage, violent death, accusations. That was the justice system (...): the absurd pretension that human nature could be dominated...
Political convictions then were of the utmost importance, so intensely felt that it was difficult even for well-balanced and temperate men to think of the opposition party without bitterness. To the rank and file of the Federalists, the Democrats see...
I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it...
some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.
But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood.
We can’t worry about meaning. Ari proposed to us that meaning is a consumer item. Some people manufacture it through religion, philosophy, nationhood, politics, and some people buy it. But an artist is not a manufacturer.
The strongest people are people who faced the toughest situations in life. People who are defeated by the toughest battles are stronger than those who have won by using the escape route!
I think it's important to protect people. To stand up for people [...] That's what courage is. Not... hurting people for no reason." - Al
Many people say that time heals all wounds, but that simply is not true. People can become more bitter, arrogant and spiteful with age.
Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.
People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places.
But things change, people change - as do perceptions of people, and now I answer in a language that I hope my teenage self will understand.
some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.
Suicide isn't something people do to hurt other people. It's something people do to release themselves from pain.
It made no sense to him, this idea that some people got God and some people didn't.
Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.
This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!
I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.
The thing about this business is that you always end up finding these amazing stories and these amazing people who make amazing films. I just want to work with good people and keep challenging myself with different kinds of characters.
