Quotes about people

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“The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.”

“Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food;”

“I'm just saying -- you can't prevent other people from disappointing you. It's bound to happen at some point. We're all only human. What you can do is decide how you're going to deal with it.”

“The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything.”

“You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.”

“People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.”

“Nah. I got it. Just try not to stake Jean-Luc again if you meet up with him. (Acheron)
I can’t help it. All you fanged people look alike in the dark. (Tabitha)
Yeah. I know what you mean. All you soul-full people look alike to us, too. (Acheron)”

“People only see what they are prepared to see.”

“You killed more people than anybody in history."

"Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.”

“I don’t smile. My smiles don’t make people relax.”

“Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don’t see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither skill nor desire to turn the agony of a people into entertainment.”

“Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.”

“Is he having a party?" "Dorian is a sociable king. He likes keeping people around him, mostly so he can mock them.”

“I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.”

“You think you know your possibilities.
Then other people come into your life
and suddenly there are so many more.”

“One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.”

“… I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness…”

“I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.”

“When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.”

“It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.”

“People who don't read are brutes.”

“People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don’t look and it’s magic”

“People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up”

“If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.”

“Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.”

“Film lovers are sick people.”

“It's not arrogance. [Tamilians] are quiet people.”

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”

“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”

“You smell of other peoples blood, ma petite. It was no one you know. -Jean Claude and Anita”

“We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.”

“It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and see if it isn't so.”

“I'm related to people I don't relate to.”

“I didn't know you were bringing the mundane." His blue eyes flicked uneasily over Simon.
"That's what I like about you people," said Simon. "You always make me feel so welcome.”

“Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”

“Slow down. Stop trying to do everything now, now, now. Hold up the people behind you for all you care, feel them kicking at your heels but maintain your pace. Don't let anybody dictate your speed.”

“Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.”

“Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don’t give a damn.”

“it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the
people.”

“Living was okay, but it wasn't the breaths people took that measured a life. It was the moments that took those breaths away that mattered the most. And Dev did that every time he looked at her. Naked or not.”

“People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”

“You learn to move on without the people you love.”

“Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.”

“Damn, I miss the internet. You could always find people doing stupid stuff on the internet.”

“You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.”

“It’s an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles.”

“You have no right to make jigsaws of people.”

“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”

“Cry about the simple hell people give other people- without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people too.”

“There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.”

“Don't think about what you’ll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.”

“You just have to let people love you in the way they can”

“Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.”

“They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.”

“… and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.”

“Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians.”

“Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.”

“If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.”

“People are never perfect, but love can be.”

“When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they're not people.”

“Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly
off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.”

“She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.”

“Also, chubby people can never truly pull off ethereal the same way skinny people can never be jolly.”

“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.”

“The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.”

“They say the only people who tell the truth are drunkards and children. Guess which one I am.”

“People always tell me "Have a nice day." Well what if I don't want to? What if I want to have a crappy day?”

“I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently.”

“Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.”

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

“A boo is a lot louder than a cheer, if you have 10 people cheering and one person booing all you hear is the booing.”

“Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.”

“The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day.”

“Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity. (p. 107-108)”

“❝Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.❞”

“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.”

“Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.”

“People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.”

“And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.”

“Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.”

“The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.”

“Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.”

“Decisions are best made by the people affected by them.”

“Note: 'family' does NOT only mean a biological unit composed of people who share genetic markers or legal bonds, headed by a heterosexual-mated pair. Family is much, much more than that.”

“People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.”

“A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.”

“…we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people…”

“Coloured people don't like. Burn it. White people don't feel good about. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book.”

“The Dormouse looked out, and he said with a sigh:
"I suppose all these people know better than I.
It was silly, perhaps, but I did like the view
Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue).”

“Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.”

“We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.”

“People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.”

“There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.”

“people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.”

“Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart.”

“It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”

“People who love work, love life.”

“She said people found running to something easier than running from something.”

“creative people always suffer from depression because we're so
super sensitive and special?”