F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, People Quotes, Drug Quotes

It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

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All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

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The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

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From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.

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It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".

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If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

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The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.

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You know, it's fashionable right now for people to be cynical. We go in cycles like this and right now a lot of people are saying, 'Oh, America is doing terribly' and 'What are we going to do?'

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Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

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In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.

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It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.

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People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.

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We've lost our way, we have lost our centeredness. We don't have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what's important. I would bet most people don't have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don't have to be sitting, they can be walking.

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My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.

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When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.

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There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans.

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Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

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I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.

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...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.

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People have to feel needed. Frequently, we just offer a job and 'perks.' We don't always offer people a purpose. When people feel there is a purpose and that they're needed, there's not much else to do except let them do the work.

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