Quotes about people

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“It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.”

“Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. Being House is like flying, too. He's free of the gravity of what people think.”

“Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.”

“I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.”

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”

“But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.”

“Those full of fear were the most dangerous of people.”

“If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.”

“I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.”

“Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.”

“… religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.”

“How many people ask you to come share their life?”

“This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.”

“He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.”

“I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.”

“Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.”

“I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.”

“Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.”

“Well, to put it delicately, she has the power to suck out people's brains.”

“Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.”

“How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?”

“Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.”

“Politics is just show business for ugly people.”

“I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.”

“This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.”

“I've heard that the best way to help poor people is to make sure you don't become one of them”

“This is where Wulf’s people would get drunk and party for a week. All hail the Vikings, forerunners to the frat boys! (Chris)”

“Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.”

“She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.”

“When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”

“Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.”

“It's Annie and me they're all sitting around here like cardboard people judging; It's Annie and me. And what we did that they think is wrong, when you pare it all down, was fall in love.”

“If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't”

“When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze.”

“But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love.”

“Nothing wrong with shooting… as long as the right people get shot.”

“Who cares if you have a girlfriend, anyway?"

"I care" Simon said gloomily. "Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor. And he smells like windex.”

“Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

“Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group of people. Every faith has its ceremonies. And since it's made up of people, every faith also has its assholes.”

“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.”

“Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers.”

“Don't mind all those people who say that you should be back to normal in a month or two. Grieving is all part of helping yourself anyway.”

“The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don’t like that statement, but few can argue with it.”

“People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.”

“At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.”

“People seem to think that if they dress like a revolutionary, they don't actually have to behave like one.”

“What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand?”

“That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done”

“I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.”

“One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.”

“When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.”

“Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon?… The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.”

“People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”

“If you tell people you talk to God, they'll think you're religious, but if you say God talks to you, it's ten to one they'll think you're crazy.”

“Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything.”

“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.”

“Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.”

“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”

“Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy--in fact, the opposite.”

“People come and go.”

“… at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.”

“Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.”

“He suddenly recalled the famous myth from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split them in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”

“There are no limits when you are surrounded by people who believe in you, or by people whose expectations are not set by the short-sighted attitudes of society, or by people who help to open doors of opportunity, not close them.”

“Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.”

“People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.”

“There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.”

“You can't live your life to suit other people. The harder you try, the more restrictions they'll put on you just for the fun of seeing you jump through their hoops.”

“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”

“Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.”
“Yeah,” said the voice from under the table, “you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.”

“Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one.”

“Relationships evolve, just like people do. Just because you know someone doesn't mean you know everything about them.”

“If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you.”

“It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.”

“Come on sempai, would you please stop growing mushrooms in other people's closets?

-Haruhi”

“There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.”

“… there are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who actually damn well do it, for its own sake.”

“Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous.”

“Five Great Charters knit the land
together linked hand and hand.
One in the people who wear the crown
Two in the folk who keep the Dead down
Three and Five became stone and mortar
Four sees all in frozen water.”

“You can't just go around killing people.
You're right. You can't go around killing people.”

“I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.”

“Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.”

“Hassan returned the smile. Except his didn’t look forced. And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too”

“I would like to thank the people who've brought me those dark moments, when I felt most wounded, betrayed. You have been my greatest teachers.”

“He hates me more," says Peeta. "I don't think people in general are his sort of thing.”

“Let people be, boss; don't open their eyes. And supposing you did, what'd they see? Their misery! Leave their eyes closed, boss, and let them go on dreaming!”

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of people who oppressing them.”

“If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity.”

“You're fun to look at," decided Galinda.

Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said.

I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-”

“I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it." --Dexter”

“You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all.”

“The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.”

“There was something so best-musical-ever when people screamed and begged for mercy, and she could listen to a good musical all day.”

“You want to be a better person? Go listen to someone you disagree with. don't argue with them just. It's remarkable what interesting things people will say if you take the time to not be a jerk.”

“Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion… Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.”

“I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.”

“He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.”

“And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.”

“Hannah: Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.”