Quotes about people

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“On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.”

“I had no choice. Love does funny things to people.”

“Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers”

“Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.”

“I’m not a bad person. I haven’t killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don’t kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?”

“When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.”

“If you don’t live though and drop dead from it, can the Simi eat you? Akri says the Simi can’t eat no living people, but he never said no doubt them newly dead people. Maybe that’s why he don’t let me near them fresh dead. (Simi)”

“Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.”

“Computers don't kill books; people do.”

“People see what they want to see when they need to.”

“Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.”

“I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.”

“Offended people still may experience miracles, words of utterance, strong preaching, and healing in their lives. But these are gifts of the Spirit, not fruits. We will be judged according to fruit, not gifting. A gift is given. Fruit is cultivated.”

“You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.”

“We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.”

“people's emotions are rarely put into words, far more often they are expressed through other cues.
the key to intuiting another's feelings is in the ability to read nonverbal channels, tone of voice, gesture, facial expression and the like”

“Many people in the village wanted her to be more of a girl, and Peter had wanted her to be large and brave but a little less large and brave than him. But Pine Sap was sure enough to want her to be exactly who she was.”

“Every relationship is an education. Each new person we welcome into our hearts is a chance to evolve into something radically different than we used to be. But what happens when those people disappear from our lives?”

“A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.”

“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste”

“People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.”

“Maybe there was a magic stronger than spells. Maybe the soulmate principle was responsible, and if two people were meant to be together, nothing could keep them apart.”

“Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.”

“Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.”

“People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.”

“DOES EVERYBODY THINK I am an asshole?” Curran asked. “Only people who know you or have met you.”

“Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead. Most of these people are very immature. They lead "still" lives, waiting.”

“Clary and Simon continued to stare judgmentally. It made Simon very happy. Judging people together was an essential part of best friendship.”

“Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.”

“People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world… But you have to do what's right for you.”

“People surprise you sometimes.”

“So you really cant think of anyone else who might want to kill you?"asked Jace.
"Unlike in your case there arent actually all that many people who dislike me."said Simon.”

“We live in a pretty apathetic age, yet we’re surrounded by an enormous amount of information about other people. If you feel like it, you can easily gather that information about them. Having said that, we still hardly know anything about people.”

“People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong.”

“People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel”

“I can't get over this. Dad isn't Sam's dad? Dad is a friend? How was I supposed to know that? People shouldn't be allowed to sign themselves as Dad unless they are your dad. It should be the law.”

“People aren't born with kindness, it grows with them…”

“… if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened… but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.”

“You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.”

“After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love. So many things, so many people, depart! And we can only repossess them in our minds.”

“I hate how the people who reallyyou are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand youstick around.”

“Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.”

“… Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?”

“How come all the harmless people were so lame? Maybe that was the definition of safe.”

“Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.”

“Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.”

“Some people seem quite destitute a sense of humour.”

“I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them - they change their colors.”

“behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.”

“Marriage… is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives.”

“That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all”

“Sometimes people can be too intellegent for their own good. Too much thinking could confuse things.”

“We're broken. It's like we have all these jagged edges that scare other people off, but when we're with each other, our jagged edges fit together and we're almost whole.”

“You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.”

“Sitting on my stool I thought of a bumper sticker: "If Mean People Suck, Why Isn't My Dick In Your Mouth?”

“You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.”

“We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now.”

“Hey show some respect. They’re real people with names. Carla and Krissy” He frowned. “Or was it Missy?”

“After all, people judge one another according to their own feelings. It is only the miser who sees other enticed by money, the lustful who see others obsessed by desire.”

“I am not here to entertain straight people.”

“There are two kinds of people in the world Ms. Lane: those who survive no matter the cost and those who are walking victims.”

“It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.”

“Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.”

“Blindness separates people from things;
deafness separates people from people.”

“Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.”

“I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.”

“When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.”

“People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.”

“It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.”

“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.”

“What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have”

“People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.”

“Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.”

“The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.”

“No friend had I made there, but I wasn't with this group to make friends, and besides, he sneered too much. I've found that people who sneer are almost always sneering at me.”

“She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.”

“Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.”

“Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?”

“This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.”

“Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse.”

“When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.”

“It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice, but the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.”

“When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.”

“Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.”

“I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.”

“Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.”

“I love people. I love my family, my children … but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.”

“We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.”

“Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.”

“The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.”

“I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.”

“Free societies… are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.”

“How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?”

“People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change.”

“People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.”

“A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.”

“The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.”

“The trouble with people is they don't understand people.”

“Should, is the worst word
in the English language. People always think things "should" be a certain way, and when they're
not, they're disappointed.”