Quotes about people

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“Your father always tries to see the good side of people; to find the excuse. But sometimes there isn't a good side. There isn't an excuse.
(Mom - to Lara Lington)”

“Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.”

“My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me.”

“The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture”

“People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.”

“No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you're still alone.”

“People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.”

“People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.”

“I can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy?"
I gripped the steering wheel tighter. "Why do people keep asking me that?"
He turned to stare at me, his eyes worried. "Who else keeps asking you that? Are any of them doctors?”

“It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer "universal health care."”

“Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.
I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.”

“I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see.”

“It’s bad enough… when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.”

“It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.”

“he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.”

“I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion.”

“You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.”

“Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.”

“Maybe you should make me a list of people I can kill and ways in which they’re allowed to die,” he said. “You are not funny.” “I’m very funny.”

“There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us.”

“People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.”

“A classroom. People trying to stick me in classrooms was becoming as predictable and annoying as people trying to kill me, but with less-fun results.”

“If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you.”

“If the devil doesn't exist… how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?”

“She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.”

“When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.”

“But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.”

“People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as compensation.”

“Elaine: Ugh, I hate people.
Jerry: Yeah, they're the worst.”

“It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.”

“I’m merely talking about learning to be less bothered by the actions of people.”

“To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.”

“People who think they know everything are annoying to those of us who do.”

“Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.”

“I don't feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it's here. And I think anything good that you're going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.”

“Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.”

“It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts.”

“You guys looking for my dad? People are always, like, looking for him, and he's never around. Daddy is so not here. And I mean that literally and spiritually.”

“Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.”

“Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsiously crave a wee bit ay silence.”

“… even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always end up where you think you're going.”

“I have a catchphrase to describe my plot-generation technique — "What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?"”

“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”

“But crazy people never think they're crazy. You're sane just by the virtue of the question.”

“When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either “You’re joking, right?” or “They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people?”

“Where people aren’t having any fun, they seldom produce good work.”

“Perhaps most people in the world aren’t trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It’s all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real pickle. You’d better remember that. People actually prefer not being free?”

“Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.”

“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.”

“I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not.”

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”

“Just because you’re grown up and then some doesn’t mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)”

“If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.”

“The spectacle is not a collection of images; rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images.”

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”

“no people can be both ignorant and free.”

“Love is for weak people, it's a delusion and it can be deadly.”

“When somebody walks out, it leaves a hole in you. Some people fill it up, the good and the bad, and get on that way. Some people leave it open, maybe long enough to heal, maybe too long, picking at it now and then so it doesn't heal all the way.”

“Personally, I think they killed the bear because they were afraid of it. That s what people do, kill the things they re afraid of.”

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.”

“If you love people, you take them on trust.”

“I don't like people who like me because I'm a Negro; neither do I like people who find in the same accident grounds for contempt. I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. I think all theories are suspect, that the finest principles may have to be modified, or may even be pulverized by the demands of life, and that one must find, therefore, one's own moral center and move through the world hoping that this center will guide one aright.”

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”

“There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”

“As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.”

“The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to… failure.”

“People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less”

“Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?”

"Because they’re talented.”

“It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else.”

“People disagreeing everywhere you look
Makes you wanna stop and read a book”

“Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.”

“Honestly, do these people have nothing better to do than engage in stupid mindless speculation about people they don't know?”

“Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.”

“It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.”

“I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah,… but that doesn't mean I don't know how people say good night. And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.”

“Why do people respect the package rather than the man?”

“He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending, wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.”

“I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.”

“So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us.”

“Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.”

“I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.”

“Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds-- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.”

“Not like a heart, which let people in without permission, held them in a special place she never had any say in and then yearned for them to remain there longer than they planned.”

“I see time away hasn’t made you any more charming. (Fang)
Oh, I can be charming. I just choose not to. People start to think you like them, then when you stab them in the back, they take it so personally. Really pisses me off. (Thorn)”

“Most people think it takes a long time to change. It doesn’t. Change is immediate! Instantaneous! It may take a long time to decide to change…but change happens in a heartbeat!”

“Love between two people can last a long time if the people love themselves some, and are ready to give love to another person.”

“She never utters a sound even when she's crying, and that makes me a little sad. Doesn't seem right. When you cry, people should hear you. The world should stop.”

“It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.”

“Like me, he has a searing belief that books are sacred. They might not be to other people, but when you have a passion, you hold on to it. You defend it. You dont pretend it isn't important at the risk of offending others." -Carrie.”

“People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.”

“Just friends, just friends. Standing there in the bookstore, watching Seth walk away, I half wondered how anyone could still use that line. But I knew why, of course. It was used because people still believed it. Or at least they wanted to.”

“Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?”

“For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.”

“Books don’t change people; paragraphs do; sometimes even sentences.”

“Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.”

“I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.”

“Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.”

“I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.”

“People who understand everything get no stories.”