Quotes about people

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“The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football.”

“DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it.”

“Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.”

“He’s body slammed enough people to start a new country. And there could be a neighbouring city for the people he’s punched in the throat”

“It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.”

“Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.”

“For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say.”

“Family isn't about the blood you share. It's about the people willing to bleed for you." ---Maris - Born of Fury”

“The greatest changes in history have come when people were able to shake off what others told them to do.”

“I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.”

“If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.”

“Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have courage to complain, that's their problem.”

“Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.”

“Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.”

“People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.”

“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”

“Some people read books for fun.”

“We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.”

“If you appear weak, people take advantage of you.”

“I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.”

“Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.”

“Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself - but he lacked Will's tendency to assume the absolute worst about people and proceed from there.”

“What we don't let out traps us. We think, "No one else feels this way, I must be crazy." So we don't say anything. And we become enveloped by a deep loneliness, not knowing where our feelings come from or what to do with them. "Why do I feel this way? Last week, I was on top of the world and now my feelings don't make sense." Voicing it, getting it out and letting it other people hear it, helps to dissipate it. The fears and self-criticisms begin to leak. And we begin to heal.”

“People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.”

“The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.”

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”

“people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.”

“Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.”

“Most people believe me when I lie. I've learned how to say the words just right. I have a trusting kind of face. But the boy in front of me was a trained operative, so Zach knew better. And besides, Zach new me.”

“My name is David Charleston.
I kill people with super powers.”

“Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours.”

“There are some people who will never understand what
loyalty means. They could tell you what it was, of course,
but they will never know. They will never see it from the inside.
They couldn't imagine a world where something like that was real.”

“Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.”

“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe.”

“When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong, every single time.”

“We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible.”

“It was funny, though, the things you didn't learn about people until after they died.”

“It’s in Latin.”
“So? What does it say?”
“I don’t read Latin!”
“You’re kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn’t that the international language for smart people?”

“Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.”

“People, generally, suck.”

“I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.”

“George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.”

“Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don’t matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.”

“His shoulder bumped mine again. "Can I ask you something?"
I didn't answer. He was going to ask me anyway. People don't say that if they don't want to pry something out of you.”

“Jason settled back on the bench. 'I hate to break this to you, but as a rule, wizards are nasty people. They're powerful, capricious, ruthless, egotistical, used to getting their own way. That's being kind.”

“The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.”

“Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.”

“how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?”

“Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.”

“Some people just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.”

“Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.”

“Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.”

“There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns… and clowns. (Bobby Pendragon)”

“Answer me this, did you hesitate at all or did you see the giant, go ‘Wheee!’ and run toward it?”
“She ran toward it,” Juke quipped.
“He was biting people in half.”
“I rest my case,” Curran said. “A note wouldn’t have made any difference.”

“The existence of other people is essentially awkward.”

“All the events of your past have formed a lens, or paradigm, through which you see the world. And since no one's past is exactly like anyone else's, no two people see alike.”

“There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.”

“What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.”

“To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.”

“I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.”

“Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.”

“A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.”

“I was in the shopping mall because that's where I go lately. For the last couple of weeks, I've been going there every day, trying to figure out why people go there. It's kind of a personal project.”

“It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.”

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

“Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise. For some people, it's love. Others, money or alcohol. Mine was even worse: calculus.”

“Everyone has crap in their background, everyone has things they wish they could undo. But most people don't go around doing their best to screw up their present lives because of it.”

“I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more.”

“She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.”

“I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right out of a party.”

“When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!”

“People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.”

“I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?”

“These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”

“So few people know what they're capable of.”

“I wish I could take away your pain. I wish I could go back to when you were born and take you somewhere safe. Far away from all the people who’ve hurt you. (Kiara)
You’re doing that now. (Nykyrian)”

“It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.”

“Life there was hard and it made people hard.”

“There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future.”

“You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake you to your core.”

“I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.”

“I can't praise a young lady who is alive only when people are admiring her, but as soon as she is left alone, collapses and finds nothing to her taste--one who is all for show and has no resources in herself”

“Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.”

“Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.”

“I changed my mind. I don’t want to be an inveshtigative journalist anymore. I want to be a professional rum drinker.”

“There are people who do that,” Duff said. He’d barely sipped his rum.

“Really? What do you call them?”

“Alcoholics.”

“And he understands. He understands why people hold hands: he’d always thought it was about possessiveness, saying This is mine. But it’s about maintaining contact. It is about speaking without words. It is about I want you with me and don’t go.”

“Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.”

“Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.”

“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.”

“Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.”

“Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.”

“I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.”

“Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.”

“Who snitched?"
"We have people monitoring police radio frequencies. They gave Jim a heads-up in case our security had to storm PAD offices and bust you out of there. I found out when I saw Jim walking down the hallway snickering to himself.”

“It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.”

“A secret's a secret because you don't let people in on it.”

“God knows we’re all drawn toward what’s beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be, it’s only by love and sacrifice so great it destroys the giver.”

“… handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.”

“I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.”