Quotes about people

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“But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.”

“You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.”

“It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.”

“She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.”

“I have always been aware of how I break.
I know what kind of situations will break me.
I know what kind of people will do it.
I know how much it will hurt.”

“Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.”

“You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.”

“It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable.”

“Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.”

“I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there.”

“people who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one.”

“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”

“People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.”

“You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.”

“You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies.”

“One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.”

“Don’t listen to what people say; watch what they do.”

“He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.”

“I want my people to be protected, strong, and not to be driven into corners until they either become killers or are killed!”

“Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.”

“For reasons of my own I take note of the way people act when they’re around mirrors.”

“Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.”

“It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.”

“I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.”

“Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.”

“… for music alone can abolish differences
of language or culture between two people and invoke something indestructible within them.”

“I'm sorry," he says. "I don't usually like people. So when I do, part of me is really amused and the other part refuses to believe it's happening.”

“Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.”

“truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.”

“the price of creation
is never
too high.

the price of living
with other people
always
is.”

“How strange to have the power to literally transform yourself into other people, and yet be so unable to put yourself in their place.”

“Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.”

“And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.”

“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them."

"I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly.

"Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied.”

“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”

“Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.”

“Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I don’t care. I’m sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it’s mostly for their own good. Lie to Katniss about the rebellion so she doesn’t do anything crazy.”

“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”

“It's strange the times people choose to be generous.”

“Lots of people talk to animals… Not very many listen though… that's the problem.”

“It is unusual,” said Cristina, “for a revolution to call for fewer rights for people, not more.”

“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you got two new people. Maybe that means — hell, it's complicated.”

“But wouldn't it be lovely to watch two people fall in love?”

“He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.”

“People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It'shard.”

“Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.”

“I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.”

“To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.”

“The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”

“I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives.”

“Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?”

“And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.”

“The only time people turned to watch her go by was when she hurtled past them as she fell.”

“Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.”

“This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be.”

“What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.”

“If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about the country with her sword drawn, rescuing and defending everyone in distress. She always wants to fight when she sees people in trouble.”

“Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.”

“Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.”

“I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it?”

“I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst of all, love was not powerful enough to change a life.”

“She is no longer a person in his life; instead, she is a person that other people will remind him of.”

“There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.”

“Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.”

“The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster

When you take your pill
it's like a mine disaster.
I think of all the people
lost inside you.”

“People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.”

“People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time - but even on the best day nobody's perfect.”

“The war which is coming
Is not the first one. There were
Other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end
There were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people
Starved. Among the conquerors
The common people starved too.”

“Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.”

“You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.”

“Society just doesn't care about young people anymore, even if we are the future.”

“People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.”

“Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.”

“God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.”

“Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: “We don’t serve colored people here.” I said: “That’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.””

“Just because things don't work out, it doesn't mean there aren't other people you can't love. Love is too big a thing for you to go without it in life.”

“You are always looking at people like this.” And then she made a face, one he couldn’t possibly begin to describe.
“If I ever look like that,” he said dryly, “precisely like that, to be more precise, I give you leave to shoot me.”

“And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?”

“An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it.”

“What is going on with you?" she says, shaking her head and pushing me away. "What's up with all the love and affection? I mean, you of all people, you of the eternal iPod-hoodie combo.”

“Smile… it makes people wonder what you're up to.”

“Sometimes a crumb falls
From the tables of joy,
Sometimes a bone
Is flung.

To some people
Love is given,
To others
Only heaven.”

“And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them…”

“The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.”

“Nice tights," I snorted. Or I tried to snort, anyway. I'm not exactly sure how, though people in books are always doing it.”

“I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.”

“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”

“What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.”

“The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.”

“She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love.”

“Oh how I hate people!”

“… a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with.”

“My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.”

“Put your expectations on God, not on people.”

“I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.”

“I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people.”

“Can I ever come back here' he asked, and the Woodsman said something very strange in reply.
'Most people come back here,' he said, 'in the end”

“Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?”

“What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.”