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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.
— Hrishikesh Agnihotri
People move around so much in the world, things get lost.
— Emma Donoghue, Room
We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.
— Miranda July
Can'ttrustpeople. Won'tdoanygood. They'llkillyoueverytime. They'llkilleachother. They'llkilleveryone.
— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
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.
— Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds
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.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.
— Julian Barnes, England, England
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.
— Thomas M. Disch, The Brave Little Toaster
There seem to be two main types of people in the world, crosswords and sudokus.
— Rebecca McKinsey, Sydney West
People take one another for granted
— Nina LaCour
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 all just a little crazy?
— Libba Bray, Going Bovine
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.
— Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
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 last for ever.
— Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
What a strange creature is a laughing fool,As if a man were created to no useBut only to show his teeth.
— John Webster, The White Devil
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.
— Michelle Sagara West, Cast in Fury
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.
— Stacia Kane, Sacrificial Magic
Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.
— David Gemmell, Lion of Macedon
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.
— Melina Marchetta, Ferragost
Oh, Vasu. People always talk; you have to learn to ignore them.
— Farahad Zama, Not All Marriages are Made in Heaven
People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.
— Judith Guest, Ordinary People
She just eyed them coolly, as if they were nothing to her, as if their nothingness surprised and slightly repelled her.
— Anne Ursu, Breadcrumbs
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.
— Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
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.
— Roy Blount Jr., Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South
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.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
— Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
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.
— Denton Welch, Maiden Voyage
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...
— Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons
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 might as well rise put on your bravest faceI like that show where they solve all the murdersAn heroic point of viewIt's got justice and vengeance tooAt least so the story goesI like that story, makes a satisfying caseBut there's a messy point of viewThat's sadly just as trueFor so many among usIn softest voice there's an acid tongueIn the oldest eyes there's a soul so youngIn the shakiest will there's a core of steelOn the smoothest ride there's a squeaky wheelThough we might have precious littleIt's still precious
— Rush
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.
— Théophile Gautier, Mademoiselle de Maupin
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.
— Kedar Joshi
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.
— Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
For Liza, a greeting is an opportunity to make new friends. For me, it's yet more people I'll have to avoid.
— Ariel Leve, It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me
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.
— Mary Balogh, A Secret Affair
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.
— Julia Gregson
Leadership is self-made. People who have deliberately decided to become problems solver lead better.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
No, we aren't civilized, even in our business suits and high heels. People are as mean as ever, and as predictable. Underneath it all, we are not so different from what lurks in the wild, perhaps we're worse.
— Donna Lynn Hope
When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as 'too good to be true.' They speak as though one is rewarding the nature of evil. Yet, ironically, we still wonder where all the good people have gone.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Good people see past their own fucking lives.
— Isaac Marion, The New Hunger
Some people complain there are too many people on earth, Some people complain about secret societies, Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early. Almost all people complain about something.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I do not hurt people, they just make me do it.
— M.F. Moonzajer, The Journalist: Attack on the Central Intelligence Agency
It’s not the word that’s important, it’s the right to say any word you want to and to form any sentence you want to, that’s the point and once they start to legally restrict what we can say and what we can’t say then we are on a slippery slope to authoritarianism.” “We’re talking about racists,” said Karen. “No one should be allowed to be racist,” said Mark. “But that’s not down to the Government or the courts,” said Rob desperately, “that should be down to us, we should make it difficult for people to be racist, we should frown upon such language and activity, it should be by peer pressure that we stop people from being abusive and unpleasant, not down to the Government.” “Why not?” demanded Karen, “they make the laws so it’s down to them to make the punishments.” “It’s not about punishment,” pressed Rob, “it’s about morality and social conscience, it’s about standing up for what’s right versus moral laziness, it’s about courage versus cowardice.
— Arun D. Ellis, Daydream Believers
People forget to understand your goodness, teach them something new.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I like to prowl ordinary places.I feel sorry for us all or glad for us allcaught alive togetherand awkward in that way.there's nothing better than the jokeof usthe seriousness of usthe dullness of us
— Charles Bukowski, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
For at the end of the day, what matters is never the wine, it's always the moment; it's always the people.
— Olivier Magny, Into Wine: An Invitation to Pleasure
Love is large, and so forms the heart that embraces it fully.
— LeeAnn Taylor
The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
— Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor
It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.
— Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs
The problem with people is that they try to do everything but don't do one thing well. Focus more energy on the activity you excel in. Capitalize on your strengths.
— Bianca Frazier
When one person succeeds, we win as a group of people. Support others dreams so we can all win.
— Bianca Frazier
The richest people in the world are the people that love the most
— Alinani joe
People pay attention to the things they want to listen, anything that doesn't please them is rubbish.
— Himmilicious
What we earn in life? People heart? Enemies? Just think, why we live this world? Be pleasant, Be honest, Be peaceful.
— Samdoss
physics can be taught , love cant , learn it while you can , earn it when ever possible .
— ganeshsaidheeraj
Even the most popular people could feel lonely sometimes.
— Aishabella Sheikh, Converting The Bad Boy
Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.
— Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
It’s the unknown that draws people.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there’s a huge possibility you’ll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn’t that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don’t you find that scary?
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us.
— Markus Zusak, Underdog
I hate it when people make fun of me and it turns out they're right.
— Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Dairy Queen
Life there was hard and it made people hard.
— Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled that particular smile. You know that smile that seems to knock you and tell you how pathetic you are? That's the smile I was smiling.
— Markus Zusak, Underdog
People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly.
— Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea
Funny how addiction was socially acceptable—even a status symbol—when it made people extroverts rather than introverts
— Stacia Kane, City of Ghosts
Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone's got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn't mean it's and unfriendly place -- just busy and preoccupied. Personally, I love it. I'm a social creature but there are times and places you just don't want to do more than grunt at your fellow human being.
— Laura Anne Gilman
In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
It is really irritating to work with irritating people
— Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End
Quality, relevant content can't be spotted by an algorithm. You can't subscribe to it. You need people - actual human beings - to create or curate it.
— Kristina Halvorson, Content Strategy for the Web
There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.
— Herman Cain, This Is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House
people have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist
— Dean Koontz, Watchers
Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.
— Michael D. O'Brien, The Father's Tale
Only occasionally can you glimpse through the embrasures of an otherwise perfectly polite person to see the cannons aimed out, only in a certain glint of light do the eyeteeth become fangs. We are driven by desire and fear. Only in our solitary hungers do we find ourselves capable of the most magnificently unexpected sins.
— Michael Paterniti, Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain
Some people have goodness and merit buried deep inside and we glimpse it and see its value but ultimately it's covered by so much dirt that it's a 24/7 exercise in archaeology.
— Kelli Jae Baeli
When people starts to enjoy a writer's pen, he becomes a legend even if his stories are neither long nor publicly surrounded by expectations.
— A. Saleh
Man has created technology. Technology has created man
—  what we are today. Electricity is our way of life. Without it many would perish.
People are complicated,” she said. “Didn’t they teach you that in biography school?
— Frederick Weisel, Teller
Different people are different!
— John Christian Edwards
…People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings. Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming.
— Kathleen Winter, Annabel
Interesting" people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at night and smoked cigarettes in mixed company, those would have most scandalized her own mother.
— Anna Godbersen, Beautiful Days
Good things could happen to not so bad people.
— Mike Gayle, My Legendary Girlfriend
Everyone's crazy, but few show it.
— Hannah Vandegrift
It would seem no matter how progressive we get there are always those few who are backwards in their ways.
— Solange nicole
Are people innately altruistic?" is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated--for good or ill--if only you find the right levers.
— Steven D. Levitt, SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
You take a straight tip from the stable, Cokey, if you must hate, hate the government or the people or the sea or men, but don't hate an individual person. Who's done you a real injury. Next thing you know he'll be getting into your beer like prussic acid; and blotting out your eyes like a cataract and screaming in your ears like a brain tumour and boiling round your heart like melted lead and ramping though your guts like a cancer. And a nice fool you'd look if he knew. It would make him laugh till his teeth dropped out; from old age.
— Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth
The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us so full of longing to the sea.
— Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture
I felt vaguely outraged that such a bad person had such a good car. Because the car was the culmination of a thousand-odd years of scientific advancement. But the guy was a dick. I wondered when that had happened
—  that we had started making better machines than people.
The idea being that if I was so incredibly small, then I could do almost anything, because what impact would I have, really? What damage could be done, being so puny in the big scheme?
— Rosecrans Baldwin, You Lost Me There
In this funny debut, flashy Filipino fashion designer Boy Hernandez sees his American dream become a nightmare when he’s ensnared in a terrorist plot and shipped to Guantanamo. Gilvarry nails the couture scene, but Boy’s rough journey from Manolo to Gitmo is no joke.
— Andrew  Abrahams
Sometimes I fear that even as a People when we take one step forward, we reel backwards ten times fold. I don't even think on the Precipice of Change will we truly move forward... It will most definitely take a Miracle.
— Solange nicole
Lucius didn’t believe in werewolves. He said that people were too horrible for any other monsters to exist, which he thought was a shame.
— Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus
The man was staring directly at him now, a curious expression on his face, half smiling, half quizzical. Instantly Eager had a sense of certainty far deeper than anything he had experienced so far. "I have it too!" he exclaimed. "I am a part of this Earth, aren't I? Just like the birds and the trees and the people - I am.""Om." said his companion.Unseen by them, a blossom fell.
— Helen Fox
Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.
— Lawrence H. Keeley, War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage
In the case of everything that belongs to the realm of sentiment, religion, politics, morality, the affections, and antipathies, etc. The most eminent men seldom surpass the standard of the most ordinary individuals.
— Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
Funny how nobody talks on the tubes, isn't it? I rarely catch the tube myself, or lifts. Confined spaces, everybody shuts down. Why is that? Perhaps we think everybody on the tube is a potential psychopath or a drunk,so we close down and pretend to read a book or something.
— John Hannah
Our stories always contain average, ordinary people. They are the most unsuspecting victims of all.
— D.J. Weaver
On a visit or vacation to Toba Lake,you may say 'Horas' to Batak people,when we meet, visit and shake hands.
— Toba Beta
An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
— John H. Patterson
a lot of timeswe are angry at other peoplefor not doing whatwe should have done for ourselves- responsibility
— Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers
Imagine all the people you meet in your life. There are so many. They come in like waves, trickling in and out with the tide. Some waves are much bigger and make more of an impact than others. Sometimes the waves bring with them things from deep in the bottom of the sea and they leave those things tossed onto the shore. Imprints against the grains of sand that prove the waves had once been there, long after the tide recedes.That was what Atlas was telling me when he said “I love you.” He was letting me know that I was the biggest wave he’d ever come across. And I brought so much with me that my impressions would always be there, even when the tide rolled out.
— Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us
When I knew people, I knew me and when I knew me, I knew people.
— Mahrukh
Be careful of broken people. Their sharp edges may cut you.
— nickiesha reid
Some people are not meant to live together, for they will destroy one another and annihilate themselves. Wolves and sheep cannot be put in the same place, for after eating the sheep, the wolves will starve to death.
— Charbel Tadros
Remember to honor the hand which reached out for you when you needed it, by being that hand to someone else who is struggling.
— Greg Dutilly
But then, people usually do miss what's right in front of them.
— Lisa Maxwell, The Last Magician
Sometimes you meet people who teach you what kind of person you do not want to be in your life.
— Himmilicious
People are good because they are good in hiding their bad.
— Ratish Edwards
Harry doesn't like people, you see." "I do like people," Harry said. "I just don't like being with them. Particularly when there's a lot of them at the same time.
— Jo Nesbø, The Thirst
The more you do for people, the less grateful they become, but don’t let that deter your sincere spirit of giving.
— Charmaine J Forde
People will reveal themselves to you. In single moments they show you what they are.
— Travis Mulhauser, Sweetgirl
Who do I love? I love people who are easy to talk to.
— Marty Rubin
People don't always need a name.
— Edward Averett, Cameron and the Girls
There are people that I love I am all of them
— Goitsemang Mvula
Poor people! No territory invasion can broaden their narrow minds.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
I do not know why I have such a fancy for this little café. It's dirty and sad, sad. It's not as if it had anything to distinguish it from a hundred others–it hasn't; or as if the same strange types came here every day, whom one could watch from one's corner and recognize and more or less (with a strong accent on the less) get the hang of.But pray don't imagine that those brackets are a confession of my humility before the mystery of the human soul. Not at all; I don't believe in the human soul. I never have. I believe that people are like portmanteaux–packed with certain things, started going, thrown about, tossed away, dumped down, lost and found, half emptied suddenly, or squeezed fatter than ever, until finally the Ultimate Porter swings them on to the Ultimate Train and away they rattle. . . .
— Katherine Mansfield, Je ne parle pas français
When you're taking photographs of people, creating the “perfect scenery” is always secondary. It's much more important to capture the emotions. Especially when there's true love.
— Nina Hrusa
The people perish due to lack of understanding.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In western societies many people become sick in their thirties, develop serious medical conditions in their forties and are disabled in their fifties.
— Steven Magee
Well, I admit it. I’m a people addict, and I don’t want to quit!
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
I like the concept that people are alive.
— Deyth Banger, Dead Equation
People have the power we give them. Words have the power we give them.
— Whoopi Goldberg, Book
Thoughts control your feelings, and people around you control your thoughts.
— Akansh Malik
You don’t have to feel disappointed with yourself for not being able to alleviate the suffering of others. There are some things that are just beyond us. But what lies within our reach is to empathize, to love, to try very hard to be a good companion, a good listener and above all a good human being. That’s what we can do and that is what we must do. Sincerely love those who need us and show genuine care to them. Commit yourself a hundred percent to your relationship- give it all that you have. If you can do this you have done enough and that should give you a sense of satisfaction.
— Latika Teotia
If a leader for the right reasons is blessed by God, even the people he leads will be blessed by God as well. But if the leader is cursed by God because of iniquity, even the people he leads will be cursed as well.
— Enock Maregesi
You would hate people if you were like me… If you weren’t wanted.
— Agatha Christie
People try to get off the hook by giving excuses. Actually the reason why they are doing that is to try and get rid of the guilt which invariably accompanies such acts. They are trying to lessen their burden by passing on the responsibility on to others. They mix up excuse with reason. An excuse is an excuse and most certainly not a reason.. Be careful while accepting excuses because you may unwittingly take on responsibilities which were not yours in the first place.There’s another type of excuse- the one you give to yourself. You don’t want to get up early in the morning, or you don’t feel like exercising, or you don’t want to mow the lawn and so on, therefore you will try and justify your action on the pretext that you slept late or couldn’t sleep properly or you have some imaginary ailment or the sky is overcast etc. Actually you are trying to get rid of that guilty feeling of not doing what you ought to have done.
— Latika Teotia
Loyalty begins with your own self. Be loyal to yourself, to your feelings, desires and demands of your soul. Start by following a small dictum- “Do unto others what you wish to be done by (others to you)” and you will realize how clearly you can see and how simple your life becomes. It’s a double edged weapon, you will set standards for your behavior with others and will expect no less from them either; it will also make you reasonable as well as realistic because you won’t expect the moon from others while you are not ready to do even half as much. In the past you may have bent backwards to please others, moulded yourself to suit their needs because you were too meek to stand up for your own self. You never thought of self love, your desire to grow and attain self fulfillment. Not anymore. You must be assertive, be firm and above all be loyal to yourself. If it doesn’t suit others, then so be it. They were never meant to be your fellow travelers, they were parasites who only wanted to use you, and having done that discard you when you had served their purpose. There was no ‘mutuality’ about such relationship. Be loyal to yourself and to others who are on the same wave length as you.
— Latika Teotia
the world and the people who inhabit it are not the same. The world lies between people, and this in-between – much more than (as is often thought) men or even man – is today the object of the greatest concern and the most obvious upheaval in almost all the countries of the globe. Even where the world is still halfway in order, or is kept halfway in order, the public realm has lost the power of illumination which was originally part of its very nature. More and more people in the countries of the Western world, which since the decline of the ancient world has regarded freedom from politics as one of the basic freedoms, make use of this freedom and have retreated from the world and their obligations within it. This withdrawal from the world need not harm an individual; he may even cultivate great talents to the point of genius and so by a detour be useful to the world again. But with each such retreat an almost demonstrable loss to the world takes place; what is lost is the specific and usually irreplaceable in-between which should have formed between this individual and his fellow men.
— Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times
Many times people are just like a food dish...Some of them look so attractive, so colourful but while you taste them, you sense a bad taste after just one or few spoons...Other  look so unattractive...so uninvitating but while chew it you simply discover amazing flavours...
— Dragotel Viorica
Appreciate who accompany, let go who leave. People who surround are ultimate wealth.
— Mahrukh
Only a swine thinks size and strenght are the same thing.
— Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
There is only One Human race
—  Humankind.
Why do these people love you, Archer? Is it simply because you show little or no response to their affection?
— Len Deighton, SS-GB
Human beings will be remembered as the race who tried to destroy everything they did not understand. People, animals, plants, even the giant ball they called home.
— Robert  Black
Leaders build bridges
—  and seek common grounds to unite. Pygmies build walls
With his release imminent, Knight seems more unsettled than ever. He scratches furiously at his knees. Jail, he's realized, might not be all bad. There's routine and order in jail, and he's able to click into a survival mode that is not too dissimilar, in terms of steeliness of mental state, to the one he'd perfected during winters in the woods. "I'm surrounded in here by less than desirable people," he says, "but at least I wasn't thrown into the waters of society and expected to swim.
— Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
What do you think the world is if not just an endless parade of madness? To make war is madness. To seek power is madness." She laughed louder, throwing her arms wide. "And madness is glorious!
— Anthony  Ryan, Queen of Fire
Things go wrong, worst happens, you curse your life, luck doesn’t follow, good deeds aren’t just in your destiny, bad people ruins your routine. I have seen people surrounded by these all repeatedly to which I always question the philosophers and motivational speakers ‘Have you researched enough when you said life is all about sadness & happiness?’.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.
— Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
I dont believe knowing can save us. What isconstant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God—who knows all that can be known—seems powerless to change.
— Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
His chief form of entertainment was reading. The last moments he was in a cabin were usually spent scanning bookshelves and nightstands. The life inside a book always felt welcoming to Knight. It pressed no demands on him, while the world of actual human interactions was so complex. Conversations between people can move like tennis games, swift and unpredictable. There are constant subtle visual and verbal cues, there's innuendo, sarcasm, body language, tone. Everyone occasionally fumbles an encounter, a victim of social clumsiness. It's part of being human.To Knight, it all felt impossible. His engagement with the written word might have been the closest he could come to genuine human encounters. The stretch of days between thieving raids allowed him to tumble into the pages, and if he felt transported he could float in bookworld, undisturbed, for as long as he pleased.
— Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
It's possible that Knight believed he was one of the few sane people left. He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime of your life in a cubicle, spending hours a day at a computer, in exchange for money, was considered acceptable, but relaxing in a tent in the woods was disturbed. Observing the trees was indolent; cutting them down was enterprising. What did Knight do for a living? He lived for a living.
— Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
Since everyone on the earth can’t be a celebrity in their respective field, half of the people are given ‘Realization of life’ attitude (Life is what it is) and many in the rest are bestowed ‘Success is Satisfaction’ (We should be happy in who we are) standpoint. I wonder where these approaches came from as it works on 99% of the so-called ‘Normal People’ here.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
All people must pray for peace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Will I ever stop being surprised by the ways people make hell?
— Catherine Lacey, The Answers
I’d figured out that it wasn’t just about food and shelter. Obviously, that was important, butit was the people that I met, the people who made a difference, that kept me going.That made my world.
— Melody J. Bremen, The Boy Who Painted the World
The word we. We are not one people but many different people. How can one person speak for this great, beautiful race--which is not one race but many, with a million desires and hopes and wished for ourselves and our children?
— Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
A lot of bad things happen around me, some people think bad, some say bad, some do bad and some wish bad. And I am scared all the time not because of them but for the fact that some day I will one of them. Being good is tough but staying good is tougher.
— Ratish Edwards
People come and go, some stay for a while some leave soon. But when they go they take away the memories, promises, dreams and a part of my life.
— Ratish Edwards
Loving someone who never loved you, is like remembering a face you never saw.No matter how hard you try, result never changes.
— Ratish Edwards
People are like the waves, all similar, none the same
— Benny Bellamacina, THE SCOOTER FIVE | rhyming book 1 | strawberry bees
When you change, people may not believe in it initially as they are still viewing you from their old lens.
— Harrish Sairaman
Sometimes failing is what's needed. I think it can put people in a good mood, to see someone fail. Let people entertain themselves. I think that's one of the reasons people are so lonely in this country. Because they always have to rush out and have someone else in the room entertain them. It's terrible, the loneliness here. People live in coffins...
— Rivka Galchen, American Innovations: Stories
To be relevant, you must seek knowledge.
— Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance
No matter how far I try to travel from people, people always appear. Either they follow me, or they're already there, and I followed them, unwittingly.
— Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking
I have always loved being behind the camera. I love how it sets you apart in a crowd, so that you can float at the edges, pausing only occasionally to capture a moment.In its own way it’s easier than writing. As a writer, I have to know people, to talk to them, to barge into silences with a dozen of those little lighthearted quips that lead up to a conversation. And even then, they’re guarded around you. Nobody wants their drunken conversation written down somewhere.Being a photographer is different. People come to you. They smile. They flirt. They make sure you see only their best side. Nobody wants to upset the camera.
— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Numbercaste
We cannot talk people into accepting the future if they haven’t been there
— Unknown
the problems changed, but people were the same
— Dorothy Gilman, The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax
I gave you my scenario by which I play, but you can't play my character forever, can ya?...I am reader..I read 28 books at onceI like to listen music I spend hours on darkstep/dubstep and deathstepI read a lotI study peopleI have what to sayI have potential
— Deyth Banger
People often lose their names. Names fall into holes or get eaten by wild animals. Sometimes they’re carried away by the wind.
— Eliza Granville, Gretel and the Dark
here was a particular kind of energy in those early days, something I've only really found in startups. The regulars - the boring 9-to-5 people - haven’t invaded the world yet. All around you are people who practically buzz with mental adrenaline - the kind of people who sneer at words like policy and dress code and fill the office at nights with pizza and bad jokes and the relentless tip-tack-clack of keyboards. They push boundaries, turn small ideas into game-changers and small arguments into fistfights.No company can last forever this way: it’s a bit like being in a cage. Eventually the strange ones move out and give way to order and conformity and all the things that make for a smoothly operating machine. But that brief chaos is what really gives a company its soul.
— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Numbercaste
Every New Yorker thinks they’re automatically better than everyone else in every other city on the planet: even their unnems were a better class of beggars.
— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Numbercaste
We tell our stories differently, don't we, you and I?
— Paula Hawkins, Into the Water
The thread connecting one person, one event, to another exists only in the imagination.
— Marty Rubin
My problem as a writer is that—whenever I meet someone for the first time—I immediately invent for them a personality and background that are invariably more interesting than the ones they possess. And confirming this character to be uninteresting after a few minutes of conversation, I decide that they are unnecessary to my story and begin devising ways to kill them off.
— James Rozoff
People often reveal their innermost selves in the most innocent of situations.
— Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
Psychiatric institutions are filled with lots of normal people.
— Anthony T. Hincks
People are dying of starvation and famine.And you have a MASSERATTI!
— Anthony T. Hincks
People spend way too much time with hatred, jealousy, and drama when kindness is so easy. Grab a hold of the good things in life; they’ll take you to places you’ve never been.
— Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono
It's not pretty, but it's veracious.
— Stefan Zackariat
What a wonderful world that we can live together in harmony of peace!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
SENSES, APPEARANCE, ESSENCE and EXISTENCEThe world we see with our senses is very different than the world we see through our essence. Our senses perceive the world of appearance. Our essence perceives the deeper layers of existence. The first step of perceiving the world of essence is to have no goal other than to understand. "Understanding" has to be the ultimate goal. Only then, can we solve the problems.
— Petek Kabakci
Our self-worth is not who we know or what we know. Our self-worth is in what we do.
— Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono
Love your haters
—  they’re the ones who are really paying attention to you.
People are never going to act exactly like we want them to. So if we stop expecting things from others, we’ll find peace in our hearts that will last a lifetime.
— Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono
Pretending I’m all grown-up seems like too much work. I’d rather just be me
—  it’s effortless and much more fun.
There’s calm in the mind of the humble. An unmistakable peace of not having to prove anything to anyone.
— Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono
When people judge they completely lose sight of the blessings on their own tables. Jealousy or conviction is a very dark room.
— Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono
If we think about each other’s feelings, then we’re never alone.
— Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono
Attention serves a person better when he or she works for it and then lets it come.
— Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono
You should never judge a person solely by the evidence of your eyes.
— Eliza Granville, Gretel and the Dark
Worrying about things that haven’t happened yet is like riding on the hood of your car—what’s the point?
— Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono
Sometimes God takes people out of our lives for a period of time. Sometimes we need to adjust, appreciate, and reach an understanding of just how important they were to us. And sometimes it’s right at that moment when God brings them back in our heart.
— Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono
people decided that trees have no feelings
— Will Advise
You can't be a good manager if you are doing everything yourself.
— Rehan Waris
You can never please people enough. But you can only be yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Is there any greater act then praying for all people from every nation?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Pray for peace for all people.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Let’s watch out for the unpredictability and the wildcat jumps of contrarian people, whose sole interests are soaring targets at high-speed, at all costs and without any consideration. Perceptive understanding may help us discover the hidden actualities behind the ‘appearances’. .("Mama. Meine Bäume wachsen bis in den Himmel")
— Erik Pevernagie
Not all people are 'people', some are more and some are less. But only those who listen intently with their hearts will recognise them for what they are.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
I don't subscribe to labels. Unless I'm labeling other people.
— Gaby Dunn, I Hate Everyone But You
Don't let your fear of criticism suffocate your leadership potential. Once you begin to speak your truth, you will discover the people who have been waiting for someone exactly like you. Until you speak up, all you need is the faith that they exist. And I promise you: they do.
— Vironika Tugaleva
You need to stop this defeatist aura around you. When you project sadness, you push people away.
— Felice Stevens, The Shape of You
The truth is no longer hidden. Now people are hidding from the truth
— Unknown
When people wind you up, just remind them what happens to a piece of elastic.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Only poor people are corrupt. If you don't believe me, just go and ask a rich person.
— Anthony T. Hincks
People said that I was crazy, but I wasn't.I was just different.
— Anthony T. Hincks
A smile is on everyone's lips.
— Anthony T. Hincks
People so easily forget their past selves.
— Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts
People generally believe that which they wish to believe and disbelieve that which is unpleasant.
— Rodney L. Petersen, The Philosophy Of A Peasant
They drain you sometimes. They really do. "What's it all about then mate? What's the secret of life? You should know. You're a fucking cab driver." Yeah, right. (As if I'll learn the secret of life talking to arseholes like you all night). "Got any saucepan lids, mate? I've got two. I hate them. Bastards, they are. Ruined my life. I hate the bastards."I keep quiet "Don't try and rip us off, mate. I've got a key between my knuckles." (Whatever). The life of a cab driver. Glimpses into other people's lives.
— Karl Wiggins, GRIT The Banter and Brutality of the Late-Night Cab
Some people meet you for a reason, while others meet you to stay there in your life.
— Akansh Malik
I want more from life. I want to travel, see the world, and meet different kinds of people. I don’t want to stay locked in a small country, living my life halfheartedly the way society expects me to live it. I want to experience things and live to the fullest so I won’t have any regrets. I want more, so much more than they do, and they simply can’t understand it.
— Anna B. Doe, Lost & Found
Pay to go inside Neruda's homeA body lies there with no dome.But right there in the front hallLean a fairy against the icy wall.Oh Endless enigmas had the bard!Nice and large and calm backyardEnds In the middle of a rare roomRare portrait of revelishing gloom.Up climbing at the weird snail stairDoes make you grasp for some air.And there's a room with bric-a-brac:Old and precious books all in a pack.Dare saying what I liked most of all?Enjoyed seeing visitors having a ball!
— Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic
SENSES, APPEARANCE, ESSENCE and EXISTENCEThe world we see with our senses are very different than the world we see through our essence. Our senses perceive the world of appearance. Our essence perceive the deeper layers of existence. The first step of perceiving the world of essence is not to have any goal other than to understand. "Understanding" has to be the ultimate goal. Then, we can solve the problems.
— Petek Kabakci
We all have thorns in our flesh. All of us. Love is when we stay and help someone pluck out their thorns one-by-one and they do the same for us. Love is also when we pluck the thorns out of our own flesh, one-by-one. But today, the world teaches us that we shouldn’t even see those thorns, that we should only see the petals. As a result, we don’t know how to love ourselves and we don’t know how to love others. Stay with the darkness, and bring that darkness into the light. It’s there, look at it.
— C. JoyBell C.
Every person is an island in the sea of humanity.
— Anthony T. Hincks
People always kept moving, her mother had said, it's the American way. Moving west, moving south, marrying up, marrying down, getting divorced - but moving...
— Elizabeth Strout, Anything Is Possible
Wealthy people build palaces with nine floors. At the time of their departure (dying), the palace jests with them, ‘You are going and here we remain standing!’ The palaces are not the only palaces, are they? The wife, the children – they are all palaces indeed!
— Dada Bhagwan
People will listen to you when you become the ‘Embodiment of Love’ [Prem Swaroop]. When can you become the ‘Embodiment of Love’? When you do not look for laws or rules
—  When you do not see anyone at fault.
People do not know what good deeds are. It is udaya karma,unfolding effects of past karma; that makes them do the deeds. The prakruti, the relative self, forces them to do them. What is your own thing [effort] in that? Doing good deeds; that too is mandatory (farajiyat)!
— Dada Bhagwan
I drink beer not to get drunk or because i have stress, i drink beer just because i want to share good ideas with the real men, real people. you cannot be real and wise man, if you don't take alcohol.
— Ntambara Sylvestre Owen Berbason
if someone dies, people say that they loved him even if he was not good person so they start cunning to his family as if he will know it, why don't you keep your mandibles off?
— Ntambara Sylvestre Owen Berbason
People of this era are just like a butterfly that is controlled by candles' light where it follows the light in darkness without knowing where it is going to be destined similar to the people, they just insist on believing things that cannot be physically proven instead of doing what can make them to develop and successful, they just waste their time on beliefs (religious).
— Ntambara Sylvestre Owen Berbason
We are neither just brains floating around nor just hearts bouncing about.
— Ravi Zacharias, The Real Face of Atheism
...notice all the many beautiful things, nature, your own soul, stuff other people do.... like help out, smile, create, dance...
— Jay Woodman
I was kind of tired, I guess, of knowing people are flesh. Flesh and water.
— Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake
And it hit me like a ton of bricks - that people will put you on a pedestalto only later pull it from under you. Stability.
— P.A. Bitez