Quotes about people

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“People often belittle the place where they were born.”

“When I first arrived in London, I so quickly tired of being surrounded by so many people that it was only with great difficulty that I refrained from seizing the next unfortunate who crossed my path and committing violent acts upon their person.”

“When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.”

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”

“People have reasons for what they do, Beatrice. And even if those reasons can't be justified, that doesn't make them bad people, just flawed. You have to remember," she said, "someone or something has hurt them too.”

“The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.”

“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”

“I’ve found that people tend to trust other people who dress like them.”

“Geoff: We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.”

“That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.”

“The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening.”

“To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don’t like: welcome to the f*cking club. Reimburse me for the Iraq war and oil subsidies, and diaphragms are on me!”

“Nico’s anger turned as cold and dark as his blade. He’d been morphed into a few plants himself, and he didn’t appreciate it. He hated people like Bryce Lawrence, who inflicted pain just for fun.”

“We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.”

“In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.”

“You cannot convince people to love you.”

“God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.”

“It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.”

“Real dialogue isn’t about talking to people who believe the same things as you.”

“I rarely dislike people for things they can't change, they usually give me sufficient cause to dislike them for other reasons.”

“all people start to
come apart finally
and there it is:
just empty ashtrays in a room
or wisps of hair on a comb
in the dissolving moonlight.”

“I mean, at first, it was kind of disappointing. But people recover from disappointment. Otherwise we'd all be hanging from nooses. Right?”

“I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.”

“Young people want mirrors. Older people want art.”

“Because my mum and dad brought me up to believe that people are different but equal. And that I should treat everyone, no matter who, with the same respect I'd like to be shown.”

“I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard, and shows the bare bones beneath.”

“Usually, when people talk about the "strength" of black women…. they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.”

“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”

“One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.”

“Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.”

“People are only mean when they are threatened.”

“You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.”

“People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.”

“Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.”

“I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people if they are sorry for themselves. Self-pity is the biggest stumbling block in our world today.

~Jessop”

“There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.”

“People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.”

“Do you know what most people have from their grandmother? A tea set. Or a quilt.” Curran smiled. “If your family had a quilt, it would be made out of chimera skin and stuffed with feathers from dead angels.”

“People without memory are putty.”

“You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.”

“When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.”

“‎"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.”

“A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.”

“Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them.”

“It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia
"Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza
"No. But it does help with the self-pity."- Cynthia”

“But he does insist on a conversation. Goddamn it! Why can't people just do what I want them to do and be gone? It's a worldwide conspiracy to make me be polite when I don't want to be.”

“To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.”

“The problem with people is that they're only human.”

“Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.”

“Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.”

“One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees…”

“The other day I went to a tourist information booth and asked, 'Tell me about some of the people who were here last year.”

“Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.”

“It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of light imperceptible to the human eye. It is a feat of the mind to guess another's heart.”

“If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.”

“People grow up by living.”

“Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.”

“This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.”

“An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.”

“Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.”

“All those people in their black-and-white worlds - they have no idea what they're missing”

“MINDS ARE UNIQUE. They go wrong in unique ways. My mind went wrong in a slightly different way to how other minds go wrong. Our experience overlaps with other people's, but it is never exactly the same experience.”

“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think”

“And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. P.238”

“I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.”

“I think many people ill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.”

“Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people… Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.”

“But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate.

Be careful. When you join in that game you always end up losing.”

“My home is not a place, it is people.”

“We’ve got to give people room to have a bad day.”

“… because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.”

“Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.”

“Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.”

“A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.”

“I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.”

“During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.”

“There are no original ideas. There are only original people.”

“The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying.”

“I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.”

“We each have our hiding places and we each put up with the little quirks of the people we love.”

“Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.”

“You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you.”

“Some people are weak in some ways, sir. Others in other ways.”

“To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”

“In the immortal words of Maya Angelou … people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will
never forget how you made them feel.”

“I have assumed the role of Antichrist; I am the Nineties voice of individuality and people tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity…”

“It is good people who make good places.”

“Mercy is the stuff you give to people that don't deserve it.”

“Some people are uncomfortable with silences. Not me. I’ve never cared much for call and response. Sometimes I will think of something to say and then I ask myself: is it worth it? And it just isn’t.”

“What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.”

“Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?”

“I am a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity, but because there were people willing to be nuts and bolts.”

“I think that the point is that people rarely understand that nothing is ever exactly what you think it will be.”

“That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.”

“The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy.”

“What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair.”

“Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.”

“It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people.”

“What were good and evil, really, but stupid categories? Stupid categories
that restricted people and punished or rewarded them based on how they responded to their own natures, natures they really didn't have any way to control.”