But the things about people, Kell had discovered, is that they didn't want to know. They thought they did, but knowing only made them miserable.
The future does not wait for hesitant people. The more we achieve, the more we realise how much more we can achieve.
You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses)
Lucius didn’t believe in werewolves. He said that people were too horrible for any other monsters to exist, which he thought was a shame.
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.
Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The s...
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
People see owning a gallery as a way to get rich. I never thought that I could get rich in the art world. I wanted a life in art. I wanted to live with artists. I wanted to make beautiful shows.
Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.
1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.
People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.
In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.
He expected too much from people, that was the problem, Ethan thought. He expected too much from life.
There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.
You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.
But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why they become politicians.
We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.
People not only stood to respect it but perhaps their thoughts and heartbeats came to standstill, and only inspiration and patriotism was flowing through their veins.
Some guys are the type of people who bring brass knuckles to a fight. I've always thought it prudent to bring some running shoes.
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
