May Sarton Quotes

At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

I find people confusing.

[The integrative system] deals with such matters as respect, legitimacy, community, friendship, affection, love, and of course their opposites, across a broad scale of human relationships and interactions.

In my opinion when you speak about relationships between people, you are actually talking about everything in their world because everything is contained in that relationship.

The thing that is always important to me is the relationships. I feel like until I get around with the actual people that I am going to be working with there is only so much that I can do.

The bottom line in all of it is that, in life, it's all about people.

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.

Whenever I meet people who seem really sweet and unassuming, I kind of wonder about them.

My influences come from real life. I'm not interested in cinema for cinema's sake. I'm interested in life - what one does and how one interacts.

I just love drama. I love the idea of exploring relationships, whatever they may be. That's fun for me.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Rather than writing about international events, I write about individual lives. There is elation and sadness, death and birth, love and jealousy, co-operation and betrayal. All the great emotional transactions that happen wherever people come together.

I'm just incredibly interested in people.

On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.

We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

The thing that has always interested me - amidst the scale, the historical spectacle, or the social significance or the political resonance - has been the relationships.

Politics is all about relationships, people. A lot of it's emotional. It's not rocket science.

With some of the journalists, I've known them for years now, and I kind of consider them like my friends, so I always tend to joke around, and some people don't get it.

Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven.