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“Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about people sitting on rocks, naked, in all kinds of weather, but mostly bad, naturally, and walking barefoot through hot coals and arriving at wisdom. I used to say that it sounded to me as though they were getting away from wisdom as fast as they could. I think he sort of looked down on me for that.”

People Thinking Years Kind Book Ideas Used Rocks Walking Sitting Years Ago India Hot Naked Weather All Kinds Get Away Coal Fourteen Arriving Barefoot Walking Barefoot

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy.”

People Needs Fighting Fronts Sitting Weak Tragedy Workers Aids Starving Sitting Quietly

Book:The Chief Inspector Gamache Series

Source: The Chief Inspector Gamache Series

“Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?”

People World Beautiful Inspiring Animal Sitting Empty Clean Grass Animal Love Hares Sitting Up

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong.”

People Ifs Littles Stills Mother Girl Hours Forget Gone Feet Quiet Sitting Remembered Pretending Scream Child Abuse Stools

Author:Eloisa James

“It's Annie and me they're all sitting around here like cardboard people judging; It's Annie and me. And what we did that they think is wrong, when you pare it all down, was fall in love.”

People Thinking Fall Judging Sitting Falling In Love Sitting Around Annie

Book:Annie on My Mind

Source: Annie on My Mind

“I wonder if it's ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble into each other, heads down, hoping to avoid collision. I...wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, little rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of them, maybe.”

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Author:Lauren Oliver

“As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.”

People Needs Roles Please Sitting Complexes Our Society Need You Complacent Sitting Around Jester

Author:Seth Godin

“I don't know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, 'Why don't you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?' And I always say, well, when you say that, you've also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that's got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate.”

“But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly.”

People Ifs Men Way Real Lying Worst Talent Goes On Waste Sitting Lied Unforgivable Real Talent You Lied

Book:Women

Source: Women

“Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.”

People Knows Night Left Dark Interesting Sitting Crowds Devices Sitting In The Dark

Book:Talk to Me: Listening Between the Lines

Source: Talk to Me: Listening Between the Lines

“I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just don’t have time,’ I’m thinking, ‘How can you not have time?’ I read when I’m drying my hair. I read in the bath. I read when I’m sitting in the bathroom. Pretty much anywhere I can do the job one-handed, I read.”

People Thinking Needs I Can Jobs Reading Can Do Hair Sitting Yeah Bathroom Baths Love Of Reading Love To Read

Author:J. K. Rowling

“You never know when you might come home and find Mam sitting by the fire chatting with a woman and a child, strangers. Always a woman and child. Mam finds them wandering the streets and if they ask, Could you spare a few pennies, miss? her heart breaks. She never has money so she invites them home for tea and a bit of fried bread and if it's a bad night she'll let them sleep by the fire on a pile of rags in the corner. The bread she gives them always means less for us and if we complain she says there are always people worse off and we can surely spare a little from what we have.”

Source: Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

“Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.”

People Made Whole Waiting Sitting Train Made It Stations

Book:Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Chocolat 3)

Source: Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Chocolat 3)