Quotes about people

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“It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.”

“Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.”

“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.”

“People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.”

“That is my story, simply told. Please do not ask again. I have told you in order to issue a warning. I have been damaged. Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”

“Some people see the glass as half-empty, while others see it as half-full. But Jones stares at it and tries to figure out who drank the damn water.”

“The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.”

“I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.”

“99% of failures come from people who make excuses.”

“A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.”

“If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.”

“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception… you see what is, where most people see what they expect.”

“People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.”

“I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”

“Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.”

“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.”

“Jesus tells us to keep our eyes open so we are not fooled by the signs indicating that the End Times are near. As we get closer to the End Times, many people are going to claim to be the Messiah and claim to have the answers for a troubled world. Additionally, the book of Revelation tells us to expect a period of ceaseless, unending, terrible war. It appears that we are already preparing for this time as fifty percent of all research scientists today are involved in arms development and there is at least one military weapon and four thousand pounds of explosives for every man, woman, and child on earth. Finally, there will be more and more disease and devastation. Today, as you read this, millions of people in the world are being afflicted by insufficient food, the spread of new diseases, and the devastating effects of natural disasters. As we get closer to the End Times, there will be more and more famine. There will also be an increase in earthquakes and natural disasters. Christ also spoke of pestilence: the spread of new diseases. Our world will experience a spate of tragic new diseases that we will be unable to control.”

“Tell me where it hurts, she'd say. Stop howling. Just calm down and show me where.

But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.”

“If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.”

“Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.”

“How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?”

“For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn…”

“If people let other people alone, people would be better off. It's always people that screw things up for people anyway.”

“It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.”

“People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.”

“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”

“Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.”

“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”

“People are strange…”

“Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.”

“Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way…”

“There’s lots of people will help you with alcohol business, but there’s no one out there arranging little meetings where you can stand up and say, ‘My name is Sam Vimes and I’m a really suspicious bastard.”

“I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.”

“I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”

“What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.”

“The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.”

“Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.”

“Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”

“Some people say great God come from the sky take away everything and make everybody feel high, but if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.”

“The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.”

“Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the center which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.”

“I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.”

“I don’t want a perfectly safe weapon. I want a dangerous weapon that hurts people.”
He took the stick from her, rapped it against her head. She howled and he nodded.
“See? It hurts people.”

“To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

“It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves”

“I laugh at myself.
I don't take myself completely seriously.
I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to… you have to laugh, especially at yourself.”

“Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.”

“Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it.”

“Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.”

“If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.”

“I don't think any of us are normal people.”

“But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.”

“People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.”

“Evil prevails when good people do nothing.”

“Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.”

“I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.”

“More than any other nation, the United States has been almost constantly involved in armed conflict and, through military alliances, has used war as a means of resolving international and local disputes. Since the birth of the United Nations, we have seen American forces involved in combat in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Greece, Grenada, Haiti, Iraq, Korea, Kosovo, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Nicaragua, Panama, Serbia, Somalia, and Vietnam, and more recently with lethal attacks in Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, and other sovereign nations. There were no “boots on the ground” in some of these countries; instead we have used high-altitude bombers or remote-control drones. In these cases we rarely acknowledge the tremendous loss of life and prolonged suffering among people in the combat zones, even after our involvement in the conflict is ended.”

“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”

“All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.”

“I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?”

“Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.”

“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.”

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”

“Stay away from people who belittle your ambition, small people do that, but great people make you like to be great!”

“People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.”

“Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?”

“Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.”

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”

“People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.”

“Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax couldin a cutting way. She could make something sound stupid just by hearing it.”

“Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.”

“It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.”

“I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.”

“He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.”

“You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.”

“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”

“If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”

“There are terrible people who, instead of solving a problem, bungle it and make it more difficult for all who come after. Whoever can't hit the nail on the head should, please, not hit at all.”

“Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.”

“Oh, always all right. You remember that. We happen to other people.
-Nanny Ogg”

“You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”

“Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.”

“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.”

“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”

“Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.”

“Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears”

“People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals.. that is.. goals that do not inspire them.”

“Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.”

“The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.”

“Tradition:' one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.”

“Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.”

“Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.”

“Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through”

“Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.”

“You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.”

“Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.”

“If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.”

“Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.”

“… people didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting then, but usually because it was shorter. And it was more colorful, if you liked the color of blood.”