Quotes about people page 83
Sherry Argov (1977) American writer
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
“People decide what you're like before they even get to know you”
Celeste Ng book Everything I Never Told You: A Novel
Source: Everything I Never Told You
“My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don’t, and that’s what makes them more precious.”
Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist
Source: Palace of Stone
“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”
Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
“I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
“Have you heard that modesty is an attractive traits?
Only to ugly people”
Cassandra Clare book City of Bones
Source: City of Bones
“Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks.”
Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding
“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
Si 50 millions de personnes disent une bêtise, c'est quand même une bêtise. <br class="br">As quoted in Listening and Speaking : A Guide to Effective Oral Communication https://books.google.com/books?redir_esc=y&hl=es&id=0CcWYwjwyRgC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=foolish (1954) by Ralph G. Nichols and Thomas R. Lewis, p. 74 <br class="br">Also misattributed to Bertrand Russell, by Laurence J. Peter, in The Peter Prescription : How To Make Things Go Right (1976), but he subsequently attributed to France in Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977). <br class="br">Derived variant: If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie. <br class="br">W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook (1949), entry for 1901 <br class="br">Variant: If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
“What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.”
Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“People living alone get used to loneliness.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night
Source: Tender Is the Night
“It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) French writer and film director
“As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.”
Antonia Fraser (1932) British author and novelist
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
As quoted in The Money Adventure (1998) by Egbert Sukop, p. 128
Melody Beattie (1948) American writer
Source: The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take
“Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.”
Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
Walter Bagehot (1826–1877) British journalist, businessman, and essayist
Ved Mehta (1934) Indian writer
Source: All for Love
“Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.”
Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
Source: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
“Boy, you just can't kill people like you used to”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: School's Out—Forever
“The world is full of good people who do bad things!”
Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
Foreword to Radio Replies Vol. 1, (1938) page ix
Variant: There are not over a hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions, however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church.
“I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.”
Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer
“Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
Conversation with Whitman (16 May 1888) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/disciples/traubel/WWWiC/1/med.00001.49.html by Horace Traubel, Vol. I <!-- p. 166 --> <br class="br">Context: There was a kind of labor agitator here today—a socialist, or something like that: young, a rather beautiful boy — full of enthusiasms: the finest type of the man in earnest about himself and about life. I was sorry to see him come: I am somehow afraid of agitators, though I believe in agitation: but I was more sorry to see him go than come. Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated. … Cheer! cheer! Is there anything better in this world anywhere than cheer — just cheer? Any religion better? — any art? Just cheer!
Andrew Solomon book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Jim Harrison (1937–2016) American novelist, poet, essayist
“The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“If two people are meant to be, they'll find their way to each other.”
Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
Annie Leibovitz (1949) American photographer
Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Washington Post, October 2012 http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/exhaustion-is-not-a-status-symbol/2012/10/02/19d27aa8-0cba-11e2-bb5e-492c0d30bff6_story_2.html <br class="br">Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
Apology for Smectymnuus (1642), section VIII
Source: An apology for Smectymnuus with the reason of church-government by John Milton ...
Context: So little care they of beasts to make them men, that by their sorcerous doctrine of formalities, they take the way to transform them out of Christian men into judaizing beasts. Had they but taught the land, or suffered it to be taught, as Christ would it should have been in all plenteous dispensation of the word, then the poor mechanic might have so accustomed his ear to good teaching, as to have discerned between faithful teachers and false. But now, with a most inhuman cruelty, they who have put out the people’s eyes, reproach them of their blindness; just as the Pharisees their true fathers were wont, who could not endure that the people should be thought competent judges of Christ’s doctrine, although we know they judged far better than those great rabbis: yet “this people,” said they, “that know not the law is accursed.”
Jennifer Crusie (1949) American writer
Source: Faking It
“People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.”
Henning Mankell book The Troubled Man
Source: The Troubled Man
Clifford Geertz book The Interpretation of Cultures
Source: The Interpretation of Cultures (1973), p. 29
“The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.”
Richard Pryor (1940–2005) American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, writer, and MC
“Half the American people never read a newspaper. Half never vote for President — the same half?”
Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
Sometimes quoted as: Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for president. One hopes it is the same half.
[Bill, Maxwell, http://www.sptimes.com/2002/07/07/Columns/In_gloomy_times__let_.shtml, In gloomy times, let's try to find a sense of humor, St. Petersberg Times, 2002-07-07, 2008-10-04]
Variant: Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Source: 1990s, Screening History (1992), Ch. 1: The Prince and the Pauper, p. 5
“You never know which people will affect your life.”
Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer
Source: D is for Deadbeat
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
Remarks During Signing of Defense Bill http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/aug/06/uselections2004.usa2 (5 August 2004). <br class="br">2000s, 2004
Melody Beattie (1948) American writer
Source: Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind
Source: La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)