“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
“Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.”
Also: "Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner"
Also: "If you care what people think, you will always be their prisoner"
Appears in Stephen Mitchell's rendering into English http://terebess.hu/english/tao/mitchell.html#Kap09 of Tao Te Ching chapter 9; but this is an interpretation of Mitchell's which does not appear in the original text or other recognized English translations. Repeated without attribution in Gilliland, Hide Your Goat https://books.google.com/books?id=ziJQdUzCgTIC&pg=PT98&dq=Care+what+other+think+%22you+will+always+be%22+their+prisoner&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBGoVChMIpsbNzO69yAIVCU2ICh0mXwIE#v=onepage&q=Care%20what%20other%20think%20%22you%20will%20always%20be%22%20their%20prisoner&f=false, a positive thinking book published in 2013.
Misattributed
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
“The funniest people are the saddest ones”
“We can't stop living because other people are dead.”
Fonte: Frostbite
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
A felicidade, em pessoas inteligentes, é das coisas mais raras que conheço.
Marita in Ch. 11
Fonte: The Garden of Eden (1986)
“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
Seja menos curioso sobre as pessoas e mais curioso sobre ideias.
Response to a reporter seeking an interview during a vacation with her husband in Brittany, who mistaking her for a housekeeper, asked her if there was anything confidential she could recount, as quoted in Living Adventures in Science (1972), by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas
This is stated to be a declaration she often made to reporters, in Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, as translated by Vincent Sheean, p. 222
Variante: In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
“Tough times never last, but tough people do. ”
“We're actors — we're the opposite of people!”
Fonte: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“Angry people are not always wise.”
Pessoas ranzinzas nem sempre são sábias.
Fonte: Pride and Prejudice
“Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.”
Algumas pessoas morrem aos 25 anos e não são enterradas até os 75.
“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
Somente pessoas maçantes são brilhantes no café da manhã.
Mrs Chevely, Act I
An Ideal Husband (1895)
“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
Aqueles que procuram pelo mal nas pessoas com certeza o encontrarão
“"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read.”
Um clássico é um livro que as pessoas admiram e não lêem.
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XXV
Following the Equator (1897)
“One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.”
As quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970) by Dee Brown, Ch. 12
“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
Há pessoas que têm o dinheiro e pessoas que são ricas
“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
Variante: And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.
Fonte: I Shall Wear Midnight
“Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.”
“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”
Nelly Dean (Ch. VII).
Wuthering Heights (1847)
“Honest people don't hide their deeds.”
Fonte: Wuthering Heights
“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”
Fonte: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
“People won’t share or play fair if you hit them.”
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
Contexto: A six-year-old will not understand that “By and large it has been demonstrated that violence is counterproductive to the constructive interaction of persons and societies.” True. But a child can better understand that the rule out in the world and in the school is the same: Don’t hit people. Bad things happen. The child must understand this rule is connected to the first rule: People won’t share or play fair if you hit them.
“To lead people walk behind them.”
“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.”
Fonte: East of Eden
“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”
Don't Fall Off the Mountain http://books.google.com/books?id=f6yc35pUhEwC&q=%22The+more+I+traveled+the+more+I+realized+that+fear+makes+strangers+of+people+who+should+be+friends%22&pg=PA160#v=onepage (1970)
Variante: The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
“People do not lack strength, they lack will.”
“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
Variante: You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
