Quotes about people

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“The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.”

“You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.”

“People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.”

“If you spend all your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.”

“Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.”

“See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be”

“She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.”

“You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.”

“…how monstrous the people you loved could be.”

“If, instead, you find yourself often pitying someone who consistently hurts you or other people, and who actively campaigns for your sympathy, the chances are close to 100 percent that you are dealing with a sociopath.”

“People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.”

“We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels & free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep & conformists.”

“Only a fool is never afraid, Frank. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job’s got to get done”

“It is because people live in the things they possess instead of in their relationship to God that God seems at times to be cruel.”

“Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.”

“I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.”

“She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.”

“It always helps to think about other people instead of ourselves.”

“He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever”

“America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.”

“Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake — you know, to send the right message to kids.”

“People who can be very good can be very bad too.”

“No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do not change as readily, so much the worse for us.”

“So many of us find ourselves saying, “but he was so great!” Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on vacation. Things changed and it’s important to remember that they did.”

“I'm going to shoot somebody," Maddie said.
"Sawyer hates when people do that. It's a whole bunch of paperwork.”

“We are the people our parents warned us about.”

“The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world.”

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive.”

“If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be the one you had to travel the most light-years from to get to his. You would die getting to him.”

“You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.”

“The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions”

“The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.”

“If America leads a blessed life, then why did God put all of our oil under people who hate us?”

“Most people worth knowing enjoy reading.”

“Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.”

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”

“The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.”

“He looked at the walls,
Awed at the heights
His people had achieved
And for a moment -- just a moment --
All that lay behind him
Passed from view.”

“In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.”

“When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.”

“A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.”

“I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness.” - Jem Carstairs”

“Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us… Nothing just stops and stays… But it flows on… Like a river…”

“I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.”

“Simon sighed. "People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but It's the way you live your life that matters.”

“The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.”

“And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do.”

“And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them”

“I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.”

“There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.”

“Harry Dresden: I can't believe I'm about to say this. So think real careful about where this is coming from: Have you people ever considered talking when you've got a problem?”

“Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.”

“I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.”

“I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.”

“But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that.”

“Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?"
They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.”

“I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.”

“It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.”

“Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.”

“People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.”

“I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.”

“The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck.”

“Labels are for cans, not people.”

“I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.”

“We all find out the people who are supposed to take care of us are human eventually. That they make mistakes.”

“DWIGHT:

Stay smart. Stay cool. It's time to prove to you're friends that you're worth a damn.
Sometimes that means dying.
Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.”

“Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.”

“Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.”

“Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.”

“If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.”

“HOBBES:
All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.”

“He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need to make a claim on the world and the people you love to get what you most desire”

“Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.”

“Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth-breather there is.”

“Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.”

“The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.”

“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”

“People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.”

“Pigmentation was a quick and convenient way of judging a person. One of us, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once proposed we instead judge people by the content of their character. He was shot.”

“She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?”

“When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.”

“I had carried on when all I wanted was to be dead. I had stayed alive for other people. I never stayed alive for myself. I cannot begin to describe the intensity of that effort.”

“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”

“… people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.”

“Some people are destined to be deep thinkers. I am not one of those people.”

“A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.”

“If your life truths have to be protected like some people keep their couches in plastic then ciao. have a nice life. if we bump into eachoter at Target, i'm the one buying the sour gummy worms and thats all you need to know about me.”

“There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.”

“I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.”

“Do people always act this way around you? (Kiara)
You should have seen the reactions when I wore a League uniform. Those were actually comical. Except for the ones who lost control of their bowels. Then it was just messy. (Nykyrian)”

“There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.”

“The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.”

“If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love.”

“People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.”

“in the dark you have to describe yourself. In the daylight other people describe you.”

“It doesn't sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it's possible, I know it's not going to happen”

“Looking at me, you'd never guess I'd killed three people. It isn't fair.”

“As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion.”

“That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written by people who were standing where I was that morning as Simon shut the door. Doesn't make it any easier though.”