Quotes about people

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“Maybe that’s what we do to the people we love: we take shots in the dark and realize too late we’ve wounded the people we are trying to protect.”

“When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!”

“The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch below the surface.”

“The time to make up your mind about people, is never.”

“Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head. -pg. 25”

“If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.”

“Only boring people are bored.”

“If you make my children, make any child, feel bad for who they are, I will teach you why people fear mama grizzlies more than papa grizzlies.”

“Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?"
I do face facts," Meg said.
They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.”

“Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.”

“People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left.”

“There doesn't need to be a God for me. There's something in people that's spiritual, that's godlike. I don't feel like doing things just because people say things, but I also don't really know if it's better to just not believe in anything, either.”

“I get tired of hearing it's a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that? I know a place in Payette, Idaho, where a cook and a waitress and a manager put everything they've got into laying a chicken-fried steak on you.”

“Stuffing people into boxes is for those who have issues about their own box.”

“That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.”

“Some choices are forever…. Just because people aren't in our lives anymore, doesn't mean they stop thinking about us and vice versa.”

“There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.”

“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”

“Sometimes the thoughts and feelings I had didn't really agree with each other, so I decided I must be lots of different people inside my brain.”

“You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”

“It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.”

“The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people.”

“Who are these people who think a book comes with a guarantee that they will like it?”

“some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.”

“I won’t snatch, harm, or scare to death people with you or use checking up on you as an excuse to cause trouble. You’re worse than my mother, Rachel.”
“Mine, too,” Jenks muttered.”

“sometimes it’s okay to cheat on things - but don’t ever cheat on people. because once you start, it’s very hard to stop. you find out how easy it is to do.”

“… she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see…”

“Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.”

“For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.”

“There is no such thing as a weird human being. It's just that some people require more understanding than others.”

“No' is golden. 'No' is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives.”

“The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.”

“Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.”

“I could never leave,' Pine Sap said.
'Why?' she asked.
Pine Sap shrugged, and gestured in the direction of the village. 'Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are my bones.”

“I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!”

“The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.”

“A jewel's just a rock put under enourmous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”

“Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.”

“People struggle to live, not to commit suicide”

“Bren MacGuff: Well, honey, doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream…”

“Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.”

“If you want someone to tell you what to think…"

"You will never be short of people willing to do so.”

“If you always make the right decision, the safe decision,
the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.”

“When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?”

“I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.”

“People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.”

“Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.”

“If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up”

“The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard… Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.”

“I reflected that for all the people you lost touch with or couldn't hold on to, life occasionally made up for it by giving you the right person at the right time.”

“Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.”

“Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously…. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.”

“Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.”

“He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”

“I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.”

“Like letting spiders live because they eat mosquitoes,
Clary thought. "So they're good enough to let live, good enough to make your food for you, good enough to flirt with-but not really good enough? I mean, not as good as people.”

“I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met.”

“Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.”

“I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.”

“I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.”

“These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.”

“Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought — particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.”

“In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.”

“People are secretive when they have secrets.”

“People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.”

“You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.”

“You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.”

“To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.”

“He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is easy for him to do, since all they ask is not to be oppressed”

“Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit.”

“Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.”

“People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. (from inside the cover)”

“If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.”

“Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention.”

“Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.”

“rules exist for a reason. Rules exist because when people don't follow them, people get hurt.”

“And maybe you should stop pitying yourself,” he said. “Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.”

“True love. Is it normal
is it serious, is it practical?
What does the world get from two people
who exist in a world of their own?”

“People with weaknesses get killed by the people who lack them. Notice I'm not dead.”

“Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.”

“A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?”

“In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.”

“The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children.”

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

“As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.”

“People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life.”

“People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.”

“There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude.”

“It's the people who seem weak who are always suprisingly strong, and the ones who seem strong who are unexpectledly weak.”

“What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.”

“People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices”

“People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.”

“It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature.”

“Don't let those people steal your day”

“We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.”

“.. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.”

“We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.”

“Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.”

“If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them. If you hope people will change how they live, you have to know how they live. If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye.”