Quotes about people
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Cassandra Clare photo

“When to people tell the same lie…"
"They are working together," Will finished”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

Alice Hoffman photo
James Baldwin photo
Janet Evanovich photo

“Happens to me all the time… People are always underestimating my dumbness.”

Janet Evanovich (1943) Novelist

Source: Motor Mouth

Nicholas Sparks photo
Malcolm Gladwell photo
Jerry Seinfeld photo
Jennifer Haigh photo
Orson Scott Card photo
Oswald Chambers photo
Lisa Unger photo
Laurie Halse Anderson photo
Sue Grafton photo
Simone de Beauvoir photo
Larry Niven photo
Jess Walter photo
Rem Koolhaas photo
Joel Osteen photo

“People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

Idries Shah photo
Milton Friedman photo

“A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it … gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”

Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer

Source: (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, 2002 edition, page 15

Blue Balliett photo
Carl Sagan photo

“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.”

Source: Cosmos (1980), p. 193
Context: For as long as there been humans we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Where are we? Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. This perspective is a courageous continuation of our penchant for constructing and testing mental models of the skies; the Sun as a red-hot stone, the stars as a celestial flame, the Galaxy as the backbone of night.

Douglas Coupland photo
Albert Einstein photo

“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
David Baldacci photo
Bell Hooks photo
Victor Hugo photo
Stephen King photo
Jodi Picoult photo

“People don’t realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.”

Marisha Pessl (1977) American writer

Source: Night Film

Rick Riordan photo

“Dang! Snake people know how to make bundt cake.”

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Jodi Picoult photo

“Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?”

Eric Roth (1945) American screenwriter

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

Laurell K. Hamilton photo
Joss Whedon photo

“You can't just throw people at all your problems, dear.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Source: Astonishing X-Men, Volume 2: Dangerous

“Well, dear, it's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get into a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them.”

Variant: It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them.
Source: The Secret of Platform 13

Edith Wharton photo
Mario Puzo photo

“People think of hearts when they think of love, but a heart is a bloody organ in the body. It doesn't have any emotions. It's like a metaphor for love that has nothing to do with what love actually is.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Source: Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything

Patricia A. McKillip photo
Stephen King photo
Scott Westerfeld photo
Charles Bukowski photo
Woody Allen photo
Orson Scott Card photo
Susan Jane Gilman photo
Sarah Dessen photo

“You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Saint Anything

Neal Stephenson photo
Edmund Burke photo

“Knowing who you really are and dressing the part -- with an air of amused recklessness -- is life affirming for you and life enhancing for other people.”

Simon Doonan (1952) British businessman

Source: Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You

James C. Collins photo
Bret Easton Ellis photo
George Bernard Shaw photo
Thomas Jefferson photo

“It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Letter to http://www.familytales.org/dbDisplay.php?id=ltr_thj1489 George Washington (4 January 1786)
1780s
Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Howard Zinn photo
Nicholas Sparks photo
L. Frank Baum photo
Janet Evanovich photo
Assata Shakur photo
Anthony Swofford photo
Anatole France photo

“It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live.”

Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer

C'est d'actes et non d'idées que vivent les peuples.
Series I: Sérénus http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/S%C3%A9r%C3%A9nus
As quoted in The Ironic Temper : Anatole France and His Time (1932)
The Literary Life (1888-1892)
Variant: It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Heinrich Heine photo

“Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people”

Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic

Almansor: A Tragedy (1823), as translated in True Religion (2003) by Graham Ward, p. 142
Variant translations:
Wherever books are burned, men in the end will also burn.
Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people.
Where they burn books, they will also burn people.
It is there, where they burn books, that eventually they burn people.
Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings.
Where they burn books, they also burn people.
Them that begin by burning books, end by burning men.
Variant: Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

Neil deGrasse Tyson photo

“People like death and mayhem.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator
Shannon Hale photo
Andrew Solomon photo
Rachel Cohn photo

“People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Richard Brautigan photo

“I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer
David Foster Wallace photo
Philip K. Dick photo
Anaïs Nin photo
Maya Angelou photo
Groucho Marx photo
George W. Bush photo
Christopher Moore photo
Dean Ornish photo
Helen Keller photo
F. Scott Fitzgerald photo
Anne Lamott photo
Ogden Nash photo
Robin S. Sharma photo
Anthony Doerr photo