People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?
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Related Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it. DEYTH BANGER I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don&... DAMON LINDELOF People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans,... TERRY PRATCHETT Hillalum wondered what sort of people were forged by living under such conditions; did they escape m... TED CHIANG If all women revealed their age, men would have nothing to hide from each other. BAUVARD Lots of people fantasize about what it would be like if they were president... Most think they'd... KEVIN KLINE It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each ot... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each othe... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Wonders amaze me. They can aim wanderlessly in any forest, be it of dark trees or lighted bushes. An... WILL ADVISE I know that in this province, the buck would have stopped with me, ... I would first of all, if they... RALPH KLEIN Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?” “I’m nothing special. I’m drowning,” I... IF I WAKE I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me IF I WAKE You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson... IF I WAKE I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ... IF I WAKE She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins IF I WAKE More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go ... AUNG SAN SUU KYI I think even if I did the research mentioned above, it would be a total waste of money because if th... ALEX CHIU I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi. DUNCAN JONES Isn't friendship amazing? At one time, our friends were just strangers to us. However, there was som... JAMES A. MURPHY A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown... TOVE JANSSON It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themsel... JAMES BALDWIN I cannot count the good people I know who, to my mind, would be even better if they bent their spiri... M.F.K. FISHER People are like trees and if they have no branches or leaves, they accuse the sun of partiality inst... VIKRANT PARSAI As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you coul... LOUISA MAY ALCOTT People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believ... HALE IRWIN Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL Life beyond your comfort zone is SO rewarding! I think if more people knew that they would actually ... DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD Such is the nature of people: they regret that what was, although it wasn't even nice, because they ... OSYP NAZARUK The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they ... ELLA BAKER You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidew... STEPHEN KING I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of the... HILLARY CLINTON For years I played the what-if game. Maybe you're acquainted with this pastime. The rules are simple... CRAIG GROESCHEL No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I ... LARRY DAVID What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have lear... VERNON JORDAN I sort of thought that maybe people had to talk that way, sort of saying the same things over and ov... SHIRLEY JACKSON The results of my work don't have much to do with me. I can only be in charge of producing the work ... ELIZABETH GILBERT I think it is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and the... ELIZABETH PEYTON It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the la... JAMES MADISON I like indoor Christmas trees. And I like people who decorate their homes with lights and all that c... LEWIS BLACK But that is what these people do - the Steves of this world - they all try and make something out of... NATHAN FILER We're all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don't spend any ... CINDY SHERMAN People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart. BERTOLT BRECHT When people don't like you... you feel it. They don't pay attention at you... they some kind a ignor... DEYTH BANGER I thought as a millennium project it would be fun
to have all the people of the world select what... BERNARD WEBER I thought as a millennium project it would be fun … to have all the people of the world select wha... BERNARD WEBER If people think I am gay, yeah, hey that doesn't bother me. Not at all. What would people think? To ... JASON PRIESTLEY Even if he could not see them, several lifetimes of listening to emperors, kings, princes, politicia... MICHAEL SCOTT You must not let me out,' it warned him gently, as it saw his eyes rest on the lock. 'If you re... ISOBELLE CARMODY It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the ... JAMES MADISON I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me. LIL WAYNE If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn&... IAN HAMILTON FINLAY Not quite, ... Even the amateurs with me dared not even mention it. They knew as I knew that if I co... COLIN MONTGOMERIE I think a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they d... SHIRLEY MANSON I swear if Washington moved any slower, we could be at war and it would all be over before they coul... RAY PALLA Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people belie... SAM WALTON People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are ... NEIL KINNOCK It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Yes. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. That is why few people find God. They go ... CHRISTOPHER PIKE The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is ... W.E. (WILLIAM EDWIN) SANGSTER Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want,... C.S. LEWIS I think a lot of the people who write about me think that if they had to write fewer interviews then... JAY MCINERNEY Even if the two lovers are mature and experienced people who know that broken hearts heal in the end... C.S. LEWIS Some people don't care if they live or they die. Some people want to know what it feels like to... PATTY GRIFFIN They are going to gain market share but would have gained even more if they had lowered their price ... GENE MUNSTER The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of t... ESTER DEAN I do think that people have moments of realisation in real life - even if it's on their death be... CAMERON WINKLEVOSS I have been misunderstood perhaps more than anyone else ever, but it has not affected me, for the si... BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH They put it like that?' said Glenda, wide-eyed. 'Oh, you know the sort of thing if you re... TERRY PRATCHETT I often wonder what drives people to do things. Whether it's put into their minds at birth, or if it... JESSICA SORENSEN I had always wondered why people closed their eyes when they kissed. Now I knew: they can't help it.... ELISE ALLEN A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they... JOCK STURGES If there are two kinds of people in the world - DC Comics people and Marvel Comics people - what kin... JOHN RIDLEY I am care free by nature but that doesn't mean that I am careless or that I care less. I simply pass... MISHI MCCOY The theory behind the program was it would catch people who dropped their insurance after renewing t... STEVE DALE I know who I am and can deal with the use of Indian mascots... But I know it can be demeaning to a g... LEONARD LITTLE You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. ROALD DAHL It amazes me how people are so afraid of what can happen in the dark, but they don't give a second t... KATJA MILLAY There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of sty... COLIN MOCHRIE I think people have a responsibility, if they write a letter, to make sure that they saw it themselv... DIANE ENGLISH I'm happy for them that they won it. But it's still a Cubs town. I saw the celebration they had and ... BOB HOWRY If I ever go to West Africa, it would probably be for a free concert. I would want to do something f... RIHANNA They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it. JAMES C. DOBSON People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believ... GEORGE MACDONALD It was sort of something that I had wanted to do, but it was a surprise, ... It's a very interesting... JULIE KENT People took ownership of the shalom and wholeness of their community; and, if something was wrong, t... JESSICA NICHOLAS I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that s... BILLY CONNOLLY What I want to see is more mixed casts. We need it. People need to be brave - in the real world, eve... CYNTHIA ERIVO It was the challenge of life too, was it not? People could never be fully understood. They were ever... MARY BALOGH I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by t... TONY HAWK All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We An... RUDYARD KIPLING If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. HENRY FORD It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That'... LAURA INNES People all over, even when it's not their history, they just enjoy the stories. It gives people the ... LAURENCE KNIGHT I would read all day if I could. QUVENZHANE WALLIS I would have understood if they had killed him. L.J. SMITH The world would be a lot better if people paid as much attention to their conscience as they do to t... VIKRANT PARSAI I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they... JAMES TAYLOR You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars. SALLY GARDNER It wasn't that same unified, universal thing, ... Nobody governs this sort of thing. If other people... JOEL GALLEN
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