Quotes about people

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“I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired.”

“But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.”

“You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people.”

“It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious”

“People become trustworthy when they are trusted.”

“The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters”

“Ask people for help. You’ll be all right. Don’t worry. It’s a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun…”

“You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.”

“If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.”

“Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else…”

“Two or three angels
Came near to the earth.
They saw a fat church.
Little black streams of people
Came and went in continually.
And the angels were puzzled
To know why the people went thus,
And why they stayed so long within.”

“Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.”

“What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.”

“Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.”

“I believe people ought to mate for life… like pigeons or Catholics.”

“That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.”

“Looking at the ocean makes me miss people, and hanging out with people makes me miss the ocean.”

“Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony.”

“My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.”

“I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.”

“The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.”

“I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.”

“It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of regret. I was trying to heal. Trying to get the bad out of my system so I could be good again. To cure me of myself.”

“She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.”

“you must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.”

“When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.”

“the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.”

“It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.”

“People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.”

“We’re on the enemy’s doorstep. We’re being asked to split up. Isn’t that how people get killed in horror movies?”

“Religions exist because people would rather have a wrong answer than no answer at all.”

“I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other.”

“Some people feel love in their hearts, Julie. Some of us feel it all way into our souls. We're the ones who can't forget.”

“People parted, years passed, they met again- and the meeting proved no reunion, offered no warm memories, only the acid knowledge that time had passed and things weren't as bright or attractive as they had been.”

“But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?”

“Harry: All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.”

“Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.”

“Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.”

“It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.”

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”

“For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.”

“People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.”

“You don't have much faith in people, do you?' asked David. 'I don't have much faith in anything,' Roland replied. 'Not even in myself.”

“People or stars
Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.

From the poem "Sheep in Fog", 2 December 1962, 28 January 1963”

“I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.”

“Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.”

“An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality.”

“Some people have a way with words, and other people… oh, uh, not have way.”

“They won’t get you without getting us and believe me, we’re not about to make our enemies happy and die here. (Nykyrian)
Damn straight. We have too many people to continue pissing off. (Syn)”

“The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.”

“It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.”

“I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.”

“I always advise people never to give advice.”

“Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any of its social classes.”

“We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.”

“As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.”

“People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.”

“Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.”

“People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak.”

“Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.”

“Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.”

“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

“Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.”

“People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair.”

“People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: "Can I love?”

“Politics is not about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives”

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”

“You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.”

“Why do you think people cheat?," I asked.
"Because they're bored? Because they can? Because they're selfish and think they're entitled to anything they want? Because they don't think they'll get caught?”

“When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.”

“I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people… those who choose to be masters of their own fate and those who wait in chairs while other dance. I would rather be one of the former than the latter.”

“Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.”

“In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.”

“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.”

“The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.”

“People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.”

“You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.”

“People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.”

“You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.”

“Rich People plan for three generations
Poor people plan for Saturday night”

“Record things in your heart. It’s more important than trying to show people what you’re experiencing.”

“Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.”

“You know the incredible thing about hearts is their unbelievable capacity for forgiveness. You’d be amazed what people will overlook when they love someone. (Acheron)”

“I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.”

“That's stupid. That's people.”

“I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.”

“History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.”

“You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.”

“What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?”

“The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.”

“Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.”

“Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.”

“I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.”

“All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.”

“If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it.”

“The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.”

“Colors shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only.”

“The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963”

“What are friends for? They are the ultimate reflection of yourself. Always surround yourself with people who inspire you and return the favor by giving them the best of you.”