"I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe."

People, Depression, Value, Worry

6

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe."

Exlpore more People quotes

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

People, Man, Respect

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

People, Superiority

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

People, Nothing

"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

Susan C. Young, American Author

People, Love, Happiness, Truth, Power

"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

People, Economy

"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

People, Problems, Want

"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

People, Kindness, Remember, Touch

"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

People, Common sense, Mistakes

"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

People,

"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

People, English, Living, Now

Explore more quotes by Shelby Foote

"I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe."

People, Depression, Value, Worry

"Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves."

Inspirational, Inspiration, Books, Word

"Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days."

Leadership, Leader, Battle, First, Glory

"And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War."

War, Day, Reason, Words

"I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume."

Writing, First, Years

"Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home."

Home, Love, Folly, Mankind

"But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience."

Experience, Quality, People, Character

"And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action."

Man, Men, Action, Difficulty, Research

"I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry."

Poetry, Trying, Writers, Writing

"Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister."

Time, Sister, Brother, Thought