Quotes about people

Jeffrey Fry -

Most people fail not necessarily because who they are, but whom they are with.

Steven Magee -

Western police officers are an arguably corrupt group of people that have rigged the system to make them almost untouchable.

Emily Barr - The One Memory of Flora Banks

Although I don't know much about anything, I know that I have a story. I know that it is not over. There are shades and shadows of adventures and people and wild new places. Whatever Paris might turn out to be, and whatever Dr. Epstein is able to do, I want to be there to find out.

Sami Abouzid -

People, who do so little for you, always try to ruin your life

Will Advise -

To share is just to align with a person.

Melanie Sargsian - Lovember: A Collection of Short Love Stories

People do change, sometimes we just choose not to notice it.

Ron Baratono -

It's always the people who strive to find, and tell you about one of your imperfections, that want to feel one step above you. The truth is their ten steps below you with nothing better to say.

Katherine Mansfield - Stories

I thought how true it was that the world was a delightful place if it were not for the people, and how more than true it was that people were not worth troubling about, and that wise men should set their affections upon nothing smaller than cities, heavenly or otherwise, and countrysides which are always heavenly.

Ron Baratono -

Extraordinary people always inspire others.

Steven Magee -

We live in a blatantly corrupt world and smart people engage in the wise practice of risk management.

Steven Magee -

I routinely inform people when I meet them that I am like a real life version of Dory the fish, as I am very forgetful and have problems tracking conversations.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

There is no favouritism with God. He accept people from all nations who fear him.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Pursue peace with all people.

Deke Sharon - the: Emotional Expression in Group Singing

There is nothing more compelling than another person.

Warren Ellis -

The two most dangerous things in the world are rich people and crazy people.

Steven Magee -

Corporate controlled governments protect the interests of the corporations and not the common people.

Steven Magee -

The energy industry is filled with toxic people that are following a corporate government subsidized known biologically toxic agenda.

Steven Magee -

It is unreasonable for the common people to expect a known corrupt legal system to protect them.

Steven Magee -

Some of the most corrupt people that you will meet in life are working in corporate government law enforcement. They make criminals look like amateurs.

Steven Magee -

The 'Smart' radio frequency (RF) utility meter program is a known biologically harmful system that has been implemented by evil people.

John Kramer - Blythe

Some people are anchored to this world by their feet, others by their fears.

Stefan Bachmann - A Drop of Night

Once people see you cry, it's like they own part of you. It's like you ripped a hole in yourself, and they saw through whatever armor you had on, got a good long view of all the screaming alien goop underneath.

Avijeet Das -

Life is truly lived only when we discover other faiths, festivals, languages and cultures.

Simon Mashalla -

I have never seen a strong and better weapon as truth. When you are honest you will just love it. People are afraid of the truth because of its sharpness, that’s why they’re liars.

Gift Gugu Mona -

People who know their worth understand the power of their own words.

C.L. Currie -

Everything in the universe is a work of art. Every living creature a story. You should hang out in a museum or art gallery sometime and listen to the comments and conversations. They’re no different than any other time or anywhere else. Existence is art.” (Derek in "The Supernatural Prodigy")

Stephen King - Christine

People are only rational on the surface.

Garth Risk Hallberg - City on Fire

Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people.

Hanif Kureishi - The Nothing

People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities.

Gift Gugu Mona -

The reason why we need love more than street lights is because love illuminates the world, no matter the time of day. Where there is no love, even with street lights on, the world would still be lost in the darkness of hatred.

Katherine Mansfield - The Singing Lesson

Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caught in the tangles of that yellow hair.

Christina Engela - The Pink Community - The Facts

Rise of Science DenialismThe problem is, in a world where some people (even in the USA, where someone like Donald Trump was allowed to rise to the level of a serious presidential candidate in 2016) have descended to such levels of ignorance that science itself is dismissed by leaders, political and religious as ‘an agenda’, and frightening numbers of people cling to ignorance and superstition because it suits their conservative anti-human rights views and objectives.

D.S. Mashego -

People will oppose your progress. They will remind you of your past failures, belittle you, etc. The only way to stand against such opposition and belittling is to knowthe reason for your existence.

Sami Abouzid -

Always think that there will be no one there for you, cause in a rainy day the percentage of people that will not be willing to help you 99.9 %.

Sami Abouzid -

I laugh at these People who has it all and Still Complain.

Timur Vermes - Er ist wieder da

What irritates me most of all about these morning people is their horribly good temper, as if they have been up for three hours and already conquered France. Particularly since the vast majority of them, in spite of rising so appallingly early, have performed anything but great deeds. In Berlin I have time and again met people who make no secret of the fact that their only reason for stirring at such an ungodly hour of the morning is so that they can leave the office earlier in the afternoon. I

Rosario Morales - Getting Home Alive

How do you mourn endless numbers of people in endless numbers of places? Is there a form for it, a requisite time and place for mourning? Is there ever an end to it? Can there ever be an end to it?

Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance

People forget how vulnerable they are despite their shirts and shoes and briefcases, how this hungry and cruel world could strip them, put them in the same position as my beggars.

Simon Mashalla -

When I was born I was loved and feared, people played with me but I never played with them. I loved them.

Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance

Look at that crowd', he said disgustedly. 'They think it's a circus.''And not a single coin are they donating', said Dina.'That's not surprising. Pity can only be shown in small doses. When so many beggars are in one place, the public goes like this' - he put his fists to his eyes, like binoculars.

Nathan Hill - The Nix

But such was the way with people – they loved the things that made them miserable.

Cindy L. Rodriguez -

I care about you as people, and I believe you are capable of great things. Each of you will contribute something to this world. You are important. You would be missed.

Simon Mashalla -

If you show life that isn’t yours you are wasting your time without knowing it. Let people see for themselves.

Gift Gugu Mona -

Don't expect too much from people who don't even have respect for themselves.

Gift Gugu Mona -

The reason why people do not have price tags is, because life is priceless.

Nathan Hill - The Nix

He’s looking for people he can be himself around. Aren’t we all?

Brian Doyle - Chicago

The coolest most amazing people I have met in my life, I said, are the ones who are not very interested in power or money, but who are very interested in laughter and courage and grace under duress and holding hands against the darkness, and finding new ways to solve old problems, and being attentive and tender and kind to every sort of being, especially dogs and birds, and of course children.

Hilaire Belloc - On Nothing and Kindred Subjects

You know (to adopt the easy or conversational style) that you and I belong to a happy minority. We are the sons of the hunters and the wandering singers, and from our boyhood nothing ever gave us greater pleasure than to stand under lonely skies in forest clearings, or to find a beach looking westward at evening over unfrequented seas. But the great mass of men love companionship so much that nothing seems of any worth compared with it. Human communion is their meat and drink, and so they use th

Ale3ia -

Λαθράνθρωπος, οι = ἂνθρωπος/οι, που λαθραῖα συν~κατα~λέγονται στο εἲδος των ἀνθρῶπων ~ Lathranthrope, Lathranthropes = the person or persons that get smuggled into being included within the Human species neology by Ale3ia

Andy Harglesis -

A scolded mouse knows no grievance.

Susannah Clapp - A Card from Angela Carter

The crime rates would go right down, I think, if Americans stopped saying: 'Have a nice day,' to one another. At least it would stop me from contemplating violence; when people in shops & so on order me to have a nice day in this authoritarian way, I want to kill, kill, kill. When I mutter 'sod off' under my breath, they think it is a Russian Orthodox benediction.

James Frazee - The Mosquito Bites

What if the mosquitos are converting the pesticide to a weak form of pyrethrums, a poison to people?

Zain Baloch -

Rich people were not rich if there were no poor.

J. Limbu -

But perhaps she has given me the strength and the madness to write about the things that I once desired so long to put against the world.

Mary-Ellen Peters -

Pain makes people warriors, you just have to hurt enough!

Lauren Oliver - Before I Fall

It's weird how much people change...It's kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there's no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a "young adult", and after that you're a totally different person. Maybe even a less happy person. Maybe even a worse one.

J. Limbu -

Everybody wants love but not everyone wants to love.

Anthony T. Hincks -

In a dog's world,would we be his best friend?

Jennifer Trussel-Bagley -

Which is worse? What people think about you, or that they don't think about you?

D.S. Mashego -

Your assignment must at least better the lives of people around you and the world at large.

D.S. Mashego -

Although these negative statements that we speak over people’s lives are ‘simple English’, they tend to be sticky and their damage is huge. Sometimes, these negative words or statements can have lasting adverse effect on the life of an individual.

D.S. Mashego -

To remain far-sighted, you need to surround yourselfwith far-sighted visionaries. You need to surround yourself with people who think like you. You needto surround yourself with people who speak the same language as you. You need to surround yourself with people who fight and refuse to give up on theirdestiny. You need to surround yourself with people whose testimonies give you reasons to press on.

D.S. Mashego -

To remain far-sighted, you need to surround yourselfwith far-sighted visionaries. You need to surroundyourself with people who think like you. You needto surround yourself with people who speak the same language as you. You need to surround yourselfwith people who fight and refuse to give up on theirdestiny. You need to surround yourself with people whose testimonies give you reasons to press on.

C. JoyBell C. -

You know what a supernova is? It's a dead star. And yet, it is the most beautiful specimen in the universe. Lots of people are supernovas but don't know it, they think that they're dead; they don't know that they're beautiful.

Dan Ariely - Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Understand that relativity is everywhere, and that we view everything through its lens - rose-colored or otherwise. When you meet someone in a different country or city and it seems that you have magical connection, realize that the enchantment might be limited to the surrounding circumstances.

Hrishikesh Agnihotri -

Some people make you feel worthless. And then there are those who make you feel like a million dollars. Ultimately, it's up to you to decide who you choose to believe.

Emma Donoghue - Room

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

Miranda July -

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance

Can'ttrustpeople. Won'tdoanygood. They'llkillyoueverytime. They'llkilleachother. They'llkilleveryone.

Megan McCafferty - Charmed Thirds

We're all people", he said simply. "It doesn't matter if you're two, thirty-two, or ninety-two. Everyone wants to be treated with respect. Everyone wants to feel like they matter in this world.

Haruki Murakami - 1Q84

People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothing but skin cells as far as the world is concerned.

Julian Barnes - England

Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.

Thomas M. Disch - The Brave Little Toaster

It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational.

Rebecca McKinsey - Sydney West

There seem to be two main types of people in the world, crosswords and sudokus.

Nina LaCour -

People take one another for granted

Libba Bray - Going Bovine

She dances a little jig. "This would make one hell of a TV show, huh?" "Yeah. But no one would believe it." I should let it go. But it's like the hole, like the door, and I have to know. Or at least, I have to ask. "Hey, Dulcie, was any of that real?" She finishes her dance and the wings come to rest. "Who's to say what's real or not?" "Yeah, but--my barometer on reality, not so good since I started going crazy. "Yeah, well, who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we

Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss

You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left for other jobs, towns, got deported, returned home, changed names. Sometimes someone came popping around a corner again, or on the subway then they vanished again. Addresses, phone numbers did not hold. The emptiness Biju felt returned to him over and over, until eventually he made sure not to let friendships sink deep anymore.

Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows

Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know. Here, where we are standing, they lived, and walked, and talked, and slept, and carried on their business. Here they stabled their horses and feasted, from here they rode out to fight or drove out to trade. They were a powerful people, and rich, and great builders. They built to last, for they thought their city would las

John Webster - The White Devil

What a strange creature is a laughing fool,As if a man were created to no useBut only to show his teeth.

Michelle Sagara West - Cast in Fury

And I’ll stop with the lecture now. I don’t like people much—they irritate and annoy me. But I’mfascinated by them anyway.

Stacia Kane - Sacrificial Magic

But then, anyone was capable of any manner of atrocities if they wanted something bad enough. People could justify anything to themselves if they wanted it bad enough. No one was immune to that.

David Gemmell - Lion of Macedon

Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.

Melina Marchetta - Ferragost

We’re not eight kingdoms, but an entire land with one heartbeat. It’s why people like you and I need to record our people’s stories so we can find those moments when our paths cross, and only then will we know true peace.

Farahad Zama - Not All Marriages are Made in Heaven

Oh, Vasu. People always talk; you have to learn to ignore them.

Judith Guest - Ordinary People

People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.

Anne Ursu - Breadcrumbs

She just eyed them coolly, as if they were nothing to her, as if their nothingness surprised and slightly repelled her.

Steven Johnson - Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.

Roy Blount Jr. - Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

L.M. Montgomery - Anne of Avonlea

It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.

Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red

He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.

Denton Welch - Maiden Voyage

The white cat Sal-al was lying on the straw matting in the empty conservatory. She looked at us with a wicked, conceited expression as if all her appetites had just been satisfied. She was beautiful. Vesta and I both said, "I wish I were a cat!" Before we got to the last word we smiled at each other in annoyance, not liking the idea that most human beings think very much alike.

Booth Tarkington - The Magnificent Ambersons

My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals...

Rush -

Though we might have precious littleIt's still preciousI like that song about this wonderful worldIt's got a sunny point of viewAnd sometimes I feel it's trueAt least for a few of usI like that world, it makes a wonderful songBut there's a darker point of viewBut sadly just as trueFor so many among usThough we might have precious littleIt's still preciousIn the sweetest child there's a vicious streakIn the strongest man there's a child so weakIn the whole wide world there's no magic placeSo you

Théophile Gautier - Mademoiselle de Maupin

I have often been charged with falsehood and hypocrisy, yet there lives not the man who would more gladly than I speak truthfully and lay bare his heart; but as I have not one idea, one feeling in common with the people who surround me, as the very first word I should speak truthfully would cause a general hue and cry, I have preferred to keep silent, or, if I do speak, to utter only stupid commonplaces which everyone has agreed to believe in.

Kedar Joshi -

The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most ofthe people understand the language of sword with greater power than thelanguage of word.

Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger

There is no end in India, Mr. Jiabao,as Mr. Ashok so correctly used to say. You'll have to keep paying and paying the fuckers. But I complain about the police the way the rich complain; not the way the poor complain. The difference is everything.

Ariel Leve - You Could Be Me

For Liza, a greeting is an opportunity to make new friends. For me, it's yet more people I'll have to avoid.

Mary Balogh - A Secret Affair

Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on.

Julia Gregson -

From the top of the bus she could see the vast bowl of London spreading out to the horizon: splendid shops with mannequins in the window, interesting people and already a much bigger world.