Quotes about people

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“I learned a long time ago not to judge people by what they look like, sound like, or by the clothes they wear. Just because a house is nice and shiny out front doesn’t mean it’s not rotting on the inside. (Kyrian)”

“The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything.”

“People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.”

“I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue.”

“So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word 'love' to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.”

“He can't really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people once loved them.”

“People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.”

“Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?”

“… any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.”

“I think the busiest people are often the loneliest.”

“The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.”

“People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.”

“I love the Olympics, because they enable people from all over the world to come together and--regardless of their political or cultural differences--accuse each other of cheating.”

“that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.”

“It's that a bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other people think.”

“They're puttin' music to AIDS germs--putting a drum machine behind them and a metronome beat and Ted Turner's colorizing them, goddamn it. These aren't even really people, man. It's a CIA plot to make you think malls are good. Don't you see?”

“We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.”

“Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much.”

“Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them”

“When you can't be honest with people, you can't ever relax with them.”

“People with passion are people who will destroy—for a man's passion is notuntil he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it. Will he kill? Will he go to war? Will he break and discard that which he has, all in the name of what he?”

“Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with someone long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family.”

“So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.”

“Succes is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they can't lose.”

“In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.”

“Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some."

Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.”

“I cannot stand people who disagree with me on the issue of Roe v. Wade… which I believe is about the proper way to cross a lake.”

“Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.”

“People are too complicated to have simple labels.”

“My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.”

“How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?”

“I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.”

“Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.”

“If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.”

“you're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product.”

“[.. ] the values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.”

“Successful people don’t do it alone.”

“People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.”

“I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head.”

“When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”

“i been meek, and hard like an oak, i seen pretty people disappear like smoke. friends will arrive, friends will disappear. if you want me, honey baby, i'll be here.”

“Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?”

“I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.”

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.”

“All people are the same; only their habits differ.”

“I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved.”

“people will tell you were they have gone, they'll tell you where to go, but until you get there for yourself you never really know.”

“I prefer to believe that people are good and honest and respect me enough to tell me the truth. It's not easy to find those people all the time, but they're out there.”

“Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.”

“Different time, different place,” I said. “Things can change. People can change.”

“You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.”

“All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.”

“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”

“Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.”

“She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.”

“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. It exists when people liberate themselves.”

“People change, but only if you give them room to do it.”

“Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”

“look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them…. Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.”

“Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.”

“There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.”

“He die one day, and then he go above of my head to live with your father."
He weared the long hair, and after he died, the first day he come back here for to say hello to the peoples."
He nice, the Jesus.”

“Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries.”

“Some people have more guts than brains.”

“Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get---people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep….”

“What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.”

“If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.”

“Geniuses are not always pleasant people.”

“the tired sunsets and the tired
people -
it takes a lifetime to die and
no time at
all.”

“There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.”

“A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”

“Behaviour that's admired
is the path to power among people everywhere.”

“If a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with.”

“People fell in love, and lost, and moved on. He didn’t know why he couldn’t. He didn’t know why he didn’t even want to. All he knew was that whatever he had to owe to Hell or Heaven for this chance, he was going to make it count.”

“The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.”

“I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.”

“Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.”

“Oh, terrific," Dan muttered. "Just what we need. Another code! Why can't people just say what they mean? Why can't they say THE MAP IS IN THE DESK?”

“Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.”

“Damn everything but the circus!… The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the back of a galloping horse, make people laugh with a clown's mouth, orchestrate twenty lions.”

“I'm sorry about the dinner."
"Best date ever. Well, until people died and vampires showed up. But before that it was awesome.”

“It's not the place, I think. It's the people. We'd have all been the same anywhere else.”

“Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works”

“Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life.”

“You're a wonderful person, Jamie. You're beautiful, you're kind, you're gentle… you're everything that I'd like to be. If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.”

“What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.”

“My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.”

“We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.”

“It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.”

“It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.”

“Life is chaotic and unpredictable. If a butterfly flaps its wings in
one part of the world, it could cause people at the opposite end of the globe to watch a Discovery Channel special on butterflies”

“A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.”

“My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.”

“Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.”

“Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?”

“She sees ghosts,” said Samuel, impatient with my whining.

"I see dead people,” I deadpanned back. Oddly, it was Uncle Mike who laughed. I hadn’t thought he’d be a moviegoer.”

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

“Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills.”

“And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is because this is a girl with beauty and grace and charm.”