Quotes about people
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“Politics is simply the interaction between two or more people. However, it's crucial for every politician to understand the interaction between people and nature. That is to say, economics is the backbone of politics.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Understanding, Nature

“Remember that, most of the prophets began as poor people, but they did not die in the same state as they began.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Shortcuts will only satisfy and give you success in the present moment. But the future is preserved for those who are fully prepared for it. The people who didn't skip the basics.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Success, Future

“Since religion is not a child’s play, it has got the power to arouse the minds of all the people, young and old alike.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Religion

“The aim of science was not meant to turn against every religious belief, but to illuminate the minds of the people.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Science

“The difference between an author and a writer is similar to that of the prophet and the messenger. Simply, because every messenger is not a prophet, but every prophet has a message and prophecies to convey to the people.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“People are beautifully made just like flowers in the garden!”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Flowers

“I admire all the great people who have dedicated their free time to helping humanity move forward.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Time, Help

“Pure mathematics is useless to ordinary people, but useful to those who wish to understand Absolute Truth, God or Infinity. Applied maths is useful in our daily life.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Life, God, Truth, Mathematics

“Some people have found that health is more valuable than wealth. Climbing the ladder of self-interest.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Health, Wealth

“[...] above a certain intellectual level people are ashamed of being antisemitic and are careful to draw a distinction between “antisemitism” and “disliking Jews.””

George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist

Source: Antisemitism in Britain (1945)

Drawing

“A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability. "One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever." It is of the first importance to duly consider and estimate this ever-enduring part.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Source: 1860s, Second State of the Union address (1862)

Law, Parting

“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

Way, Behavior, Chance

“The life of this people greatly accords with my taste, which is naturally somewhat indolent and melancholy... To repose on voluptuous ottomans and smoke superb pipes, daily to indulge in the luxuries of a bath which requires half a dozen attendants for its perfection; to court the air in a carved caïque, by shores which are a perpetual scene; and to find no exertion greater than a canter on a barb; this is, I think, a far more sensible life than all the bustle of clubs, all the boring of drawing-rooms, and all the coarse vulgarity of our political controversies.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

Source: Letter to Edward Lytton Bulwer from Constantinople, Turkey (27 December 1830), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume I. 1804–1859 (1929), p. 174

Life, Nature, Thinking, Drawing

“You have nothing to trust to but your own energy and the sublime instinct of an ancient people. You must act as if everything depended on your individual efforts. The secret of success is constancy of purpose. Go to your homes, and teach there these truths, which will soon be imprinted on the conscience of the land. Make each man feel how much rests on his own exertions... Act in this spirit, and you will succeed. You will maintain your country in its present position. But you will do more than that, you will deliver to your posterity a land of liberty, of prosperity, of power, and of glory.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

Source: Speech to the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations in Crystal Palace, London (24 June 1872), quoted in Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, Volume II, ed. T. E. Kebbel (1882), pp. 534-535

Truth, Secret, Feeling, Home

“Hurtful words coming from those who we care about cut deeper than those coming from people who are wider or unknown.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Hurt

“Why do people who have no idea
what they are talking about
always
talking loudest?”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Idea

“Don't worry about the people in your past. There's a reason they didn't make it to your future.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Past, Future

“As an administrator, I always hired people whose experience greatly surpassed mine, especially in areas that necessitated more knowledge than I possessed.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1982

Knowledge

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Feeling, Learning, Forgetting

“People often refuse to see, accept and tell the truth. Unfortunately, because of this, they and everyone around them are prevented from growth.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Truth

“If you are not truthful and if you are not in reality about yourself and if you are not in reality about the truth of other people, you have no chance at being happy in any of your relationships.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Happiness, Truth, Reality, Chance

“People will wish you to be good. And when you are good.
They will fool you. Experienced.”

Md Mim Akhtar

Fools

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“In a democracy, leaders must resemble people, not monarchs.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: 1480 AM Rock&Pop. Guadalajara, Mexico

Democracy

““People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.””

John Irving book The Cider House Rules

Variant: People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.
Source: The Cider House Rules

Question

“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005)

Love, Pain

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Variant: Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
Source: I Am the Messenger

Beauty, Beauty, Life

“I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.”

Tamora Pierce Squire

Source: Squire

Horse

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman

#25
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Source: Man and Superman

Men

“it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody”

William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair

Source: Vanity Fair

“Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”

Rainer Maria Rilke book Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

Solitude

“People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.”

Jim Butcher book White Night

Source: White Night

Love, Dogs

“Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

Books, Learning, Reading

“People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.”

Jean Vanier (1928–2019) Canadian humanitarian

Source: Community And Growth

Love, Feeling, Evil, Time

“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

Wise

“The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.”

Orhan Pamuk book Istanbul: Memories and the City

Source: Istanbul: Memories and the City

School, Learning

“Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.”

Alice Munro (1931) Canadian novelist

Life

“Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

Suffering

“What worries me about religion is that it teaches people to be satisfied with not understanding the world they live in.”

Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion

Heart Of The Matter: God Under The Microscope | BBC (1996)
Variant: [... ] one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
Source: The God Delusion

World, Religion, Understanding

“And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn’t do or what they didn’t know. I don’t know. I guess there would always be someone to blame.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Feeling

“In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.”

Judy Garland (1922–1969) actress, singer and vaudevillian from the United States

Love, Silence, Night, Depressing

“But if you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Variant: If you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.
Source: City of Ashes

Truth

“You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.”

Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter

Love

“And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Life, Dreams, Imagination

“I think most people, and I'm talking vamp or human, are shitty. They put on an act. They pretend to be all nicey-nice, but are really just one step away from showing their true asshole-ness.”

P. C. Cast book Chosen

Source: Chosen

Thinking

“You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.”

Billie Holiday book Lady Sings the Blues

Variant: Everyones got to be different. You can't copy anybody and end up with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. And without feeling, whatever you do amounts to nothing.
Source: Lady Sings the Blues

Music, Way, Feeling

“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”

James Hilton book Lost Horizon

Source: Lost Horizon

Life, Time

“Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one.

"The only people who can see the whole picture," he murmured, "are the ones who step out of the frame." (The ground beneath her feet.)”

Salman Rushdie (1947) British Indian novelist and essayist

Love, Death, Music

“You'll never understand the way the worlds really work until you surround yourself with people from all sorts of weird backgrounds.”

Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator

Source: Saga, Vol. 6

World, Way, Understanding

“Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

Travel, Time, Speed

“We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.”

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer

God, Parting

“Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression; they exist where a word has never intruded.”

Rainer Maria Rilke book Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.”

E.L. Doctorow (1931–2015) novelist, editor, professor

Personality

“The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

World

“People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Learning, Reading

“I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

“There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.”

Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Thinking, Learning, Time

“If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher

Variant: If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 50e

Intelligence

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

Source: My Father's Tears and Other Stories

Love, Memory

“The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.”

Ward Churchill (1947) Political activist

“(after listening to people gripe and complain just smile and remember)
Crows can’t hang with eagles.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Smile

“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Pt. 1, ch. 10
Miss Maudie
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

“I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers. -Juan Crisostomo Ibarra”

José Rizal book Noli Me Tángere

Source: Noli Me Tángere

Selfishness

“I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.”

Terry Pratchett book I Shall Wear Midnight

Source: I Shall Wear Midnight

Pain, Learning

“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Stupidity, Motivation

“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. … I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

"What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?" in The Beatles Anthology (2000)

Thinking

“I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you.”

Augusten Burroughs book Dry

Source: Dry

Love, Thinking

“Many people would claim that the boundary conditions are not part of physics but belong to metaphysics or religion. They would claim that nature had complete freedom to start the universe off any way it wanted.”

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

"The Quantum State of the Universe", Nuclear Physics (1984) 
Context: Many people would claim that the boundary conditions are not part of physics but belong to metaphysics or religion. They would claim that nature had complete freedom to start the universe off any way it wanted. That may be so, but it could also have made it evolve in a completely arbitrary and random manner. Yet all the evidence is that it evolves in a regular way according to certain laws. It would therefore seem reasonable to suppose that there are also laws governing the boundary conditions.

Religion, Way, Nature, Freedom

“Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.”

Neville Goddard (1905–1972) American author and lecturer

Source: Your Faith is Your Fortune

World, Change

“If you trust in yourself… and believe in your dreams… and follow your star… you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

Terry Pratchett book The Wee Free Men

Variant: Now... if you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you'll still get beaten by people who spenttime working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. Goodbye.
Source: The Wee Free Men

Dreams, Star, Learning, Time

“Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?"
"Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir.”

Terry Pratchett book Jingo

Source: Jingo

“I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

Love, Death, Fear

“Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

World, Way, Literature, Reality

“People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Business

“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them — undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

July 1890, page 320
John of the Mountains, 1938
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

World

“Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what opportunity is and what isn’t.”

Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman

“Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.”

Terry Pratchett book Mort

Source: Mort

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Variant: I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.

God, Thinking, For Men

“Think thoughts that make you happy. Do things that make you feel good. Be with people who make you feel good. Eat things that make your body feel good. Go at a pace that makes you feel good.”

Louise L. Hay book You Can Heal Your Life

Source: You Can Heal Your Life

Happiness, Feeling, Thinking

“The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don't blame other people for your problems.”

Robert T. Kiyosaki book Rich Dad Poor Dad

Source: Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Problem, Learning, Change

“Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

8 November 1943
Variant: If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)

Books, Thinking