Virginia Woolf Quotes, Lying Quotes, People Quotes

A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.

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I don't want to tell people what they should think.

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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

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I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.

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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

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I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

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People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.

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Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.

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The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his lifes work.

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I believe that people want to be free. And that we face an enemy that murders innocent people to try to shake our psychology to get us to leave.

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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

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Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.

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If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

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The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

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Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.

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In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

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People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

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