Quotes about people

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“Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable.
Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? “People always forget the rest of the saying,” she complained. “‘And satisfaction brought it back.”

“Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face.”

“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.”

“There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.”

“For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”

“She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life.”

“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”

“There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't
see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy”

“It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.”

“Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?”

“I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.”

“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything - that is how, it is between people who are each other's first memories”

“Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.”

“There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”

“Some people work an entire lifetime and wonder if they ever made a difference to the world. But the Marines don't have that problem.”

“Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.”

“Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.”

“Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.”

“What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?”

“If you’ll dare to take your mind off your troubles, get your mind off your own needs and, instead, seek to be a blessing to other people, God will do more for you than you could even ask or think.”

“I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.”

“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”

“The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.”

“My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.”

“Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn’t a place you can be happy anymore. It’s hard, but it’s true.”

“people who have failed in their lives, they are suffering their failure. People who have succeeded in their life, they are suffering their success.”

“I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.”

“Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.”

“A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.”

“You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.”

“People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.”

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.”

“Most people are boring and stupid.”

“A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the "One and Only" to anyone.”

“His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.”

“The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.”

“Santa Claus has the right idea: visit people once a year”

“Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.”

“The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.”

“Confusion is a good state to be in. It means you are looking, constantly looking. People ask me, "Why do you confuse us like this?" I want you to understand, if you can be confused by anybody, it means you do not know. If you are fanatical, you cannot be confused. Or if you are realized, you cannot be confused. Between ignorance and enlightenment is a very thin line. But they are worlds apart.”

“When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don't notice when they drop out of your world.”

“There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.”

“When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work.”

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”

“You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies." Kyle grinned at Jace. "Can you grant wishes?"

"That depends," he said. "Do you wish to be punched in the face?”

“Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way”

“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”

“If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.”

“To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.”

“Don’t worry that you aren’t giving people what they want. Give them who you are, and let that be enough.”

“most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.”

“That's the way it was. Privilege, which just means 'private law.' Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it.”

“There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.”

“Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.”

“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”

“Hide your intentions not by closing up (with the risk of appearing secretive, and making people suspicious) but by talking endlessly about your desires and goals-just not the real ones.”

“Like many isolated people, they were wrapped up in themselves and not too interested in the world outside.”

“People destroy what they love.”

“People can so easily be tempted by slackness… and by money.”

“Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.”

“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.”

“When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief that Rene Descartes was a jackass.”

“Stanley:
Delicate piece she is.
Stella:
She is. She was. You didn't know Blanche as a girl. Nobody, nobody, was tender and trusting as she was. But people like you abused her, and forced her to change.”

“I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!”

“Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.”

“That's not fair, you know. If we knew when we were going to die, people would lead better lives."

IF PEOPLE KNEW WHEN THEY WERE GOING TO DIE, I THINK THEY PROBABLY WOULDN'T LIVE AT ALL.”

“Sweetheart, never listen to what my enemies say. They're very confused people. I know they are because I've spent years making them that way.”

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”

“But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.”

“When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.”

“With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.”

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.”

“When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.”

“Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here.”

“It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.”

“All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.”

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”

“We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee.”

“There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.”

“To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will—we all do. How we view those problems determines how we end up. If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. “We can't win,” we moan. “They won't let us win.”However, if we choose to see the obstacles as hurdles, we can leap over them. Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.Whatever direction we choose, if we can realize that every hurdle we jump strengthens and prepares us for the next one, we're already on the way to success.”

“But people love a hypocrite, you know——they recognize one of their own, and it always feels so good when someone gets caught with his pants down and his dick up and it isn't you.”

“Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks.”

“The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing, or, as Sherlock Holmes, the meticulous English detective, declared to his partner, Dr. Watson, “You see, but you do not observe.”

“Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused.”

“My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.”

“Doors are for people with no imagination.”

“The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.”

“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.”

“Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.”

“No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.”

“Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.”

“It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.”

“People tell their children there are no monsters in the world. They tell them that because they believe it, or they want the child to feel safe. But there are monsters, Luke, all the more frightening because they look like people.”

“People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.”

“It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.”

“Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.”

“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”

“The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.”

“Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.”