Quotes about people

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“The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself.”

“Baby, I ain't trash. Trash is something you throw away. My people keep me.”

“I'm telling you, I wanted to. But I was trapped. You of all people should know what it's like being caught between groups”

“They were careless people… they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made….”

“Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.”

“Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.”

“It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.”

“Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.”

“I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.”

“It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.”

“In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren’t. Searching.”

“The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.”

“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”

“All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.”

“It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.”

“Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.”

“If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?”

“The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing…”

“Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.”

“Piper patted his shoulder. “Trust me, Valdez. Beautiful people never lie.”

“People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.”

“Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.”

“I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.”

“Interesting people always have a past.”

“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.”

“If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?”

“People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they're thinking ill.”

“I fell in love with you," he said, "because you were one of the bravest people I've ever known. So how could I ask you to stop being brave just because I loved you?”

“I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.”

“Annis had never been a people person, unless ‘people person’ was defined as a person who ate people.”

“Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!”

“For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.”

“the best people have the rottenest luck”

“Each snowflake was a sigh heard by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. All the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how women suffer.”

“It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too.”

“Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.”

“Most people call it The Book of the Dead,” he told me. “Rich Egyptians were always buried with a copy, so they could have directions through the Duat to the Land of the Dead. It’s like an Idiot’s Guide to the Afterlife.”

“We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.”

“People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.”

“People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.”

“The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.”

“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”

“I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.”

“The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.”

“I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.”

“The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.”

“The problem ain't what people know. It's what people know that ain't so that's the problem.”

“They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.”

“I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.”

“How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!”

“I'm tired of making people sad and I'm tired of disappointing them and I'm tired of seeing them break. I have seen this too many times. He will be the last.”

“I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, "What's wrong?" Nothing. "Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile." Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?”

“the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.”

“People don't resist change. They resist being changed.”

“When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.”

“Clichés so often befall vain people.”

“Some people will tell you werewolves can only shapechange under a full moon, but people also say there's no such things as ghosts.”

“People want to believe they know other people. Parents want to believe they know their kids. Wives want to believe they know their husbands.”

“People who are crazy rarely question whether they're crazy.”

“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”

“I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.”

“People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.”

“I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.”

“A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

“Some people insist that “mediocre” is better than “best.” They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can’t fly. They despise brains because they have none. Pfah!”

“People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.”

“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”

“You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.”

“The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.”

“Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes. Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention.”

“our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read”

“In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.”

“Grief wraps around people, takes them to a place they would not go otherwise.”

“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”

“I will not fall for any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobics, people with girlfriends or wives, misogynists, megalomanics, chauvists, emotional fuckwits or freeloaders, perverts.”

“The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.”

“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”

“I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years”

“… You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”

“You won't find Earth people, quite the easy mark you imagine”

“Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.”

“Why are people so cruel? What did I ever do to them?”

“People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.”

“You play games with people's lives.(…) You forget that they are fragile.”

“I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”

“most people are perfectly afraid of silence”

“You have everything," she said slowly, as if she were explaining the order of the world to a small child. "A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to." She smiled a little. "So go.”

“the worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter.”

“All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.”

“People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.”

“Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?”

“Killing people is easier than it should be.” Dad put on his beret. “Staying alive is harder.”

“Come on, let's get you a drink. How's your love life, anyway?

Oh God. Why can't married people understand that this is no longer a polite question to ask? We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, "How's your marriage going? Still have sex?”

“It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.”

“All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.”

“There’s no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It’s always someone else’s fault. Usually people just blame the victim.”

“I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U. S. media is the video war game.”

“I just don't believe in helping people who are going to torture me. Though I don't see any bamboo slivers. How can you possibly torture someone without bamboo slivers?”

“And it's amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make.”