Quotes about people

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“Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.”

“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”

“In a population of hundreds of millions, such a small number of people is a mere drop in the bucket… but enough drops can make any bucket overflow”

“Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.”

“There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.”

“And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.”

“People say that where there’s life, there’s hope, and I have no quarrel with that, but I also believe the reverse.
There is hope, therefore I live.”

“There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer”

“Most people don't cry when they're upset or frightened, but rather when they're frustrated. Your frustration is understandable. You've been through a most trying time." -Hodge”

“You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you?" Elayne asked. "I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.”

“People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.”

“You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.”

“Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly.”

“What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?”

“…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.”

“When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.”

“Red tape has killed more people than bullets…”

“Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.”

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”

“Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.”

“I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”

“… some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.”

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.”

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

“I feel like I'm lost in an anime movie" I said, as Coyote picked the thing up. "One of the tentacle-monster ones." Most of them were X-rated and ended up with a lot of dead people.”

“The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.”

“We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable."

[(The White House, July 25, 1961)]”

“If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you”

“Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel.

That would fix a lot of people.”

“True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.”

“He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.”

“You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.”

“Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.”

“He wasn't in a safe little story where wrongs were automatically righted; he was still in the real world, where bad bitter things happened for no reason, and people paid for things that weren't their fault.”

“I'm a hacker!" Cadel protested. "I don't poison people! I don't blow them up!”

“People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it”

“You people with hearts,' he said once, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.”

“My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.”

“Well, I get under people's skins. It's a gift I have, what can I say?”

“Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?”

“… you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.”

“I’ve heard people say that the hardest thing in the world is to live with someone you don’t love. But I’ve always thought it would be far more difficult to live with someone who doesn’t love you.”

“I always knew there were vampires, dude,” he’d said. “Because, you know how there’s people you know who, like, always look the same, even when they’re, like, a hundred years old? Like David Bowie? That’s because they’re vampires.”

“He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.”

“I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.”

“Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.”

“Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor?
Kolabati looked into his eyes. "He can if he lies to liars, cheats cheaters, steals from thieves, and limits his violence to those who are violent.”

“If you think of something, do it.

Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.”

“Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.”

“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”

“As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.”

“If people were more concerned with how they looked on the inside, then on the outside, the world would be a nicer place to exist.”

“Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.”

“those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers…”

“People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.”

“squats are a form of torture designed by people who don’t need to do squats in the first place”

“People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which case the size difference is sexy. It means: I am willing to go the distance for you.”

“You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.”

“I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.”

“They minute people fall in love they become liars.”

“All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.”

“I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced that they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.”

“Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.”

“It was always the view of my parents… that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.”

“Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.”

“It means we're on your side." That's what Bonnie said. I have people on my side? What side? Am I unwittingly the face of the hoped-for rebellion? Has the mockingjay on my pin become a symbol of resistance? If so, my side's not doing too well.”

“But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?”

“If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free.”

“The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.”

“It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.”

“The people who make a difference
are not the ones with the credentials
but the ones with the concern.”

“I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.”

“See… I knew baby Marissa was quality people, look how she's eating the head off the red-headed Artemis doll. Simi need to teach her to belch fire, then introduce her to the real heifer-Goddess herself(Simi)”

“When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.”

“The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.”

“Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past.”

“You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.”

“Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.”

“I never wear flats. My shoes are so high that sometimes when I step out of them, people look around in confusion and ask, "Where'd she go?" and I have to say, "I'm down here.”

“1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.”

“People say, "What is the sense of our small effort?" They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.”

“people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.”

“History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves”

“I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.”

“People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.”

“People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.”

“That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.”

“I follow after my father, who likes to protect mankind, and I really don’t want to see a bunch of demons eating people. Call me sentimental. (Kat)”

“Lothaire:Everywhere Lothaire went, people stopped and stared. Of course, then they usually ran.”

“When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?”

“Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.”

“I find myself wondering why—out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved—I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.”

“Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.”

“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”

“there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.”

“The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them — I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them — the point is that I know a good person when I see one.”

“People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.”

“Calvin: It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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“As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.”