Richard Russo Quotes

I think that people in Mexico talk too much.

I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention they draw is nearly always reluctantly given and unpleasantly carried out.

Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.

Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.

Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy.

Suddenly, people had three phone numbers but never answered their phones.

Cath wished she didn't use the word "just" so much. It was her passive-aggressive tell, like someone who twitched when they were lying.

People have the freedom to say what they want, and I get it - mean stuff sells better than nice stuff.

I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?

Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.

God uses people who fail - Cause there aren't any other kind around.

The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.

Obsessional prohibitions are extremely liable to displacement. They extend from one object to another along whatever paths the context may provide, and this new object then becomes, to use the apt expression of one of my women patients, 'impossible' - till at last the whole world lies under an embargo of 'impossibility'.

In a democracy it is necessary that people should learn to endure having their sentiments outraged.

I would certainly be open to closing areas where we are at war with somebody. I sure as hell don't want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our Internet.

Profanity is merely an expression of one's emotions

Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?

Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.

It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.

Sometimes in peacekeeping operations you show force in order not to use force - people realise that there's a pushback and there's a solid force there that's not going to be pushed around, that sometimes helps.

To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when they're really little. They figure out that if they're really funny, or really pretty, or if they work really, really hard or are really smart, then that's what's going to get them by. That is what is going to make people like them.

I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.

The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.

People can be a fine substitute for other dogs. But I think that if they had to choose, dogs by and large would choose the company of other dogs.

…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.