Quotes about people

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“Everybody has a heart. Except some people.”

Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States

“If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

“When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

“I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last”

Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe

“Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to
moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written
in it?”

Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion

“Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.”

John Scalzi book Old Man's War

“For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

“People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.”

Samuel Richardson (1689–1761) English writer and printer

“Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

“Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.”

John Cleese (1939) actor from England

“People may or may not say what they mean… but they always say something designed to get what they want.”

David Mamet (1947) American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director

“Changing is what people do when they have no options left.”

Holly Black book Red Glove

“College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

“One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.”

Iris Murdoch book Henry and Cato

“See, I remember love. That's what people don't understand.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

“All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

“People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence”

Thomas Gilovich (1954) American psychologist

“I don't like people," said Velvet. "… I only like horses.”

Enid Bagnold book National Velvet

“Cause hearts are amazing things. They get lots bigger to make room for new people to love alongside the old people you love. -Simi”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

“Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

“Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.”

Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down

“Love doesn’t stop people from betraying each other”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

“Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.”

Idries Shah (1924–1996) writer and Sufi teacher

“I don't know -- maybe the world has two different kinds of people, and for one kind the world is this completely logical, rice pudding place, and for the other it's all hit-or-miss macaroni gratin.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.”

Banana Yoshimoto book The Lake

“People will always go. Always. They always believe the can make a better life than in the old world.
What the hell, maybe they can.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

“I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

“I think we can all agree that sleeping around is a great way to meet people.”

Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host

“Yeah, well,” Nico said, “not giving people a second thought…that can be dangerous.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

“I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.”

Milan Kundera (1929–2023) Czech author of Czech and French literature

“I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me:.”

Shane Claiborne (1975) American activist

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.”

Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist

“Then a homeless man with a dog approached us and put his hand out. This happens to be something that I have a real problem with: homeless people with pets who approach you for food when they have a perfectly delicious dog standing right there?”

Chelsea Handler book Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

“No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from
scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who
have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve
our goals.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

“Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

“What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met there were people you didn't like?”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

“Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

“People Die…
Beauty Fades…
Love Changes…
And You Will Always Be Alone”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

“Okay, now you're starting to scare me," Wes says.
"No, scary is the way people can alter their voices on cue. Like your imitation of that creepy guy who lives at your house."
"You mean my dad?" he laughs.”

Laurie Faria Stolarz (1972) American writer

“Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning.”

Patricia Briggs book Cry Wolf

“True character is revealedby the way people react to the bigger challenges in life.”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

“Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself. (250)”

Victoria Moran (1950) American writer

“Myth is what we call other people's religion.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

“It doesn't matter what people thinks of you as long as you know that your heart and head are in the right place.”

Steve Kluger book Almost Like Being in Love

“If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.”

Tyler Perry (1966) American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter

“People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

“it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

“Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what were doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Eating Animals

“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”

Edward O. Wilson (1929) American biologist

“I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

“Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.”

Philip Yancey (1949) American writer

“People tend to rally around power.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

“I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.”

David Benioff book City of Thieves

“God is the Champion at bringing people from a place of destruction to a place of total victory. As they reach that place of victory they become trophies of his grace. and they are set on the display as a fragrant reminder of God's goodness.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“If and perhaps…. The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

“Some people never find it
Some only pretend
But I just want to live
Happily ever after, now and then”

Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman

“The truth is, it’s hard to get people to like you, but it’s even harder to keep people liking you.”

Mindy Kaling book Why Not Me?

“A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people’s evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.”

Natsuo Kirino book Grotesque

“Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

“When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there… whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time.”

Jennifer Weiner (1970) American writer

“I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

“eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

“That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Flirt

“Rule number one of the wizarding business. Never let them see you sweat. People expect us to know things. It can be a big advantage. Don’t screw it up by looking like you’re as confused as everyone else. Bad for the image.”

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

“He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.”

Jess Walter book Beautiful Ruins

“Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

“People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.”

Tyler Perry (1966) American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter

“People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's
mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.”

Don DeLillo book Cosmopolis

“Our is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.”

Don Marquis (1878–1937) American writer

“Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

“Just the way it never rains when you have an umbrella, you'll never run into people if you look fantastic. But go outside in pajamas, and you'll run into every ex you have.”

Tim Gunn (1953) American actor and fashion consultant

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to be one of them or simply live among them taking notes and photographs.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

“Old people, with other old people, are not so old.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

“People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

“Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

“I’ve read that one out of twenty-four people is a sociopath, and if you ask me, the other twenty-three of you should be worried.”

Lisa Scottoline (1955) American writer

“I make it a point never to argue with people for whose opinion I have no respect.”

Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) English historian and Member of Parliament

“People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

“Conversations bore me, to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to my soul.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

“In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.”

Anne Tyler The Amateur Marriage

“My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind”

Andy Andrews (1959) author and corporate speaker

“The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.”

Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) British writer

“People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

“I flipped the good doctor the bird.
Snorting, Gideon caught my hand and pulled me back down the hall.
"What is it with you and giving people the finger?"
"What? It's a classic.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

“Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.”

Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

“Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

“Most people in America think Art is a man's name.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

“Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!”

Sidney Sheldon (1917–2007) American writer

“I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

“A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives…”

Jonathan Kozol (1936) American activist and educator

“If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money”

William Gaddis book J R