Quotes about people

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“Seem like a lot of people wear shoes they can't walk in.”

“The people on the train with me don't know it, but in my head I'm dancing.”

“People can cry much easier than they can change.”

“If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior… you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.”

“Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing…”

“Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs”

“And tell them what?" Jace said witheringly. "That invisible people are bothering you? Trust me, little girl, the police aren't going to arrest someone they can't see”

“In general, people only ask for advice that they may not follow it; or, if they should follow it, that they may have somebody to blame for having given it.”

“People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.”

“The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they are not frightened by the thoughts of it.”

“People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.”

“Listen, child—if you’re at a party with a hundred people and one of them is the devil, he’ll be the last one you’d suspect.”

“Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous…”

“loving people live in a loving world. hostile people live in a hostile world. same world.”

“Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.”

“I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.”

“She attracted people to her; she had presence, an uncommon. Documenting her effect on her habitat, a naturalist would likely have compared her to a lioness: strong, sleek, and invariably surrounded by her pride.”

“I'm investigating people who sacrifice trained killers to dark gods.
Perfect, it will keep him occupied.
In what capacity?
Bait.”

“She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.”

“Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don`t fit into boxes.”

“That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.”

“All the people like us are we, and everyone else is they.”

“I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway”

“When smart people are nice, it's always terrifying, because I know they're taking in everything and thinking all kinds of smart and potentially judgmental things.”

“I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's
glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.”

“Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.”

“We truly believed in something back then, and we knew we were the kind of people capable of believing in something - with all our hearts. And that kind of hope will never simply vanish.”

“People!" she screamed. "There are people here! New people!”

“Really? That would be a first. I'm the son of, Jason. I might as well be covered in blood or sewage, the way people treat me. I don't belong anywhere. I'm not even from this. But that's not enough to set me apart.”

“When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.”

“I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.”

“I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.”

“Always remember that as long as other people are gullible, there's no limit to what you can achieve.”

“Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.”

“Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.”

“Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people.”

“There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry innerverse.”

“There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.”

“People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.”

“Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.”

“… I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.”

“There is no equality. The only thing people all have in common is that they are all going to die.”

“Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.”

“Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.”

“People who wade into discomfort and vulnerability and tell the truth about their stories are the real badasses.”

“Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, the never get around to doing what they want to do.”

“Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.”

“You know, I've lived a long time," he told me, massaging my calf more firmly now. "And I met a lot of people. But I ain't never met a woman made me want to beat her to death as often as you.”

“If people try to judge you or shame you for doing safe, consensual things that make you happy, I can guarantee you they're bad people.”

“Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain't always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter.”

“People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.”

“I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.”

“One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.”

“People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.”

“People are never able to outperform their self-image.”

“People like you are the reason
People like me need medication.”

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”

“People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.”

“If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.”

“No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.”

“I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.”

“People are locked up in all sorts of ways.”

“The ‘equilibrium’ that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. It’s only that I seem to have the knack of hiding.”

“Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.”

“We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.”

“You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?”

“How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.”

“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”

“Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.”

“You always said people don't do what they believe in; they just do what's most convenient, then they repent.”

“God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he does he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. That is the promise of the Christian gospel.”

“… some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness.”

“the only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!”

“You are not ashamed of our luuurve, are you, Jas?'
'Look, shut up, people might hear.'
'What do you mean, the people who live in the telephone?”

“Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.”

“I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.”

“You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.”

“And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.”

“AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.”

“Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.”

“You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.”

“People who have to announce that they are trustworthy deserve to be lied to.”

“That's what people do. Kill the things they're afraid of.”

“But things don't just fall apart. People break them.”

“I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time.”

“Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.”

“Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.”

“How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.”

“People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”

“At New Year's he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to eat with, not to stick in people.”

“People move around so much in the world, things get lost.”

“Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?”

“I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a tight rope between two worlds.”

“I almost never shoot people.”

“I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.”

“Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.”

“Drowning people
Sometimes die
Fighting their rescuers.”

“I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.”

“You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.”