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I could never leave,' Pine Sap said. 'Why?' she asked.Pine Sap shrugged, and gestured in the direction of the village. 'Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are my bones.
— Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily
Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.
— Margaret Atwood, The Tent
People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Whenever someone acts one way in public - goes overboard, if you know what i mean - it'll turn out they have an opposite side. The quietest person will have the worst temper. The happiest person will suffer the worst depressions. The best thing about a person is the worst thing.
— Ethan Black, The Broken Hearts Club
When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try it. 
— Margaret Chase Smith
It's way too easy to see the real face of a person. They're amiable and full of pretense when they want something from you, but the minute you don't give in, back away or put yourself first (like they do) is the minute they show you who they really are.
— Donna Lynn Hope
A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name.
— Charles de Lint, Dreams Underfoot
Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.
— John Scalzi, Old Man's War
My name is David Charleston.I kill people with super powers.
— Brandon Sanderson, Firefight
People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.
— Jean Vanier, Community And Growth
Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe.
— Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
Andalways embrace things, people earthsky stars, as I do, freely and withthe appropriate sense of space. 
— Frank O'Hara
If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not f*ck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
By judging others, you make yourself easy to judge.
— Ashly Lorenzana
Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
— Karl Lagerfeld
I fight cynicism. It`s too easy. It`s really boring. It`s much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism is a bunch of people who aren`t as talented as other people, knocking them because they make them feel even more untalented.
— Ewan McGregor
Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.
— Sara Paddison
Smart people have the brains, but stupid people have the balls
— Ana Sáez González
The existence of other people is essentially awkward.
— Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs
Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.
— Deb Caletti, The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those hidden episodes of the past when, even if in brief flashes, people showed their ability to resist, to join together, occasionally to win. I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive movements of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.
— Howard Zinn
Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season other things. Love is the same way. Use it to "season" people.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.
— Aimee Friedman, Sea Change
Enemies are people who's story you haven't heard, or who's face you haven't seen.
— Irene Butter
Good people protect people they love even if that means that pretending that everything is okay.
— Ron McLarty, The Memory of Running
Mean people suck
— Jim Goad
Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the other one, the little lesson that life sometimes rams home with a stick: you are not the only one watching the world. Other people are people; while you watch them they watch you, and they think about you while you think about them. The world isn’t just about you.
— Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his hip, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
People are predictable. That's what makes them easy to kill.
— Shaun Jeffrey, The Kult
Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Sometimes you’ll hear, ‘People don’t change.’ This is true more often than it ought to be, but listen again: ‘People don’t change.’ It says ‘don’t,’ not ‘can’t.’ (316)
— Victoria Moran, Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit
It's good for me to see so many other people who are not me. That there are so many others. I feel affection for them. Most of them are doing the best they can. I am also doing the best I can.
— Erlend Loe, Naïve. Super
There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.
— Nick Hornby, About a Boy
Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract;
— Émile Durkheim, On Suicide: A Study in Sociology
Everything seems simpler from a distance.
— Gail Tsukiyama, The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.
— Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.
— Ayn Rand
There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another dimension that you'd forgotten or chosen to ignore in order to continue living with the various illusions that make life, particularily life with other people, possible.
— Nicole Krauss, Great House
Remember that every man is a variation of yourself
— William Saroyan
It takes one to tell, and two to missunderstand.
— H.C. Paye
Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them.
— Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry Men
When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called me a liar. When I acted like a rich man, they started the rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type. But when I inadvertently groaned because I was really in pain, they started the rumor that I was faking suffering. The world is out of joint.
— Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
If you have the power to change the world for the better, you should do it. That's why people who do nothing are idiots, but idiots who do nothing are life-savers.
— James McGregor
When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking.
— Michael Patrick King
As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done; I have to look ahead.
— Isabel Allende, Maya's Notebook
Try to remember the moment when all the stupid innocent things you thought about life and love, all the things you thought mattered, all the things you though were true. . .try to remember when they all turned out to be lies. —Kyle
— Chad Kultgen, The Lie
Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.
— Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
I don't know why it's so hard for people to admit that sometimes they're just assholes who screw up because they don't expect to get caught.
— Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying
Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life.""I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.
— Jane Austen
I don't dislike them, nor do I like them. I've never understood why one must love children simply because they are children. I don't love people because they are people; in fact, I rarely like any people at all. If a child is somehow deserving of admiration, I certainly won't deny it, but why hand it out like candy on Queen's Day?
— Kiersten White, Illusions of Fate
Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.
— Oscar Wilde
The first person who is on your mind the moment you open your eyes after a long sleep is the reason either of your happiness or pain.
— Reader's Digest Association
Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.
— Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
The only really interesting thing iswhat happens between two people in a room.
— Francis Bacon
He always believed that people live up or down to the amount of trust you put in them.
— Hilary Duff, Elixir
When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like to other people. And the moment you do it's a formula for yourself, and then you're imitating yourself, and then nobody likes you and they dont know why.
— Carol Channing
I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower...I live still a collegiate student...and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the world...aulae vanitatem, fori ambitionem, ridere mecum soleo [I laugh to myself at the vanities of the court, the intrigues of public life], I laugh at all.
— Robert  Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
People are forever finding something wrong with you.
— Brigitte Bardot
A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.
— Rasmenia Massoud, Broken Abroad
Beautiful doesn't begin to describe it. A flower is beautiful. But this is beautiful the way that a person is beautiful- terrifying with its jagged edges, yet seductive with its crevices that hide so many secrets.
— Jeri Smith-Ready, Requiem for the Devil
Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have "plans.
— Mike Birbiglia
He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give.
— Martina Cole, Close
You have to be a two people
—  a saint and a sinner
How superfluous other people can seem when you are convinced you already have the only ones you need.
— Cristina Moracho, Althea & Oliver
So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Considering the notion that the spiritual battlefield is infinitely greater than the physical, perhaps God is more willing to bless with a sort of divine ecstasy those who see the devil as the enemy rather than those who see other people as the enemies.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
— Rachel Corrie
I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings.
— Charles Bukowski
There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a very nice self, but you know you can expect no more suprises from it. Whereas, the other kind keep moving, changing... They are fluid. They keep moving forward and making new trysts with life, and the motion of it keeps them young. In my opinion, they are the only people who are still alive. You must be constantly on your guard against congealing.
— Gail Godwin
The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.
— Hugh MacLeod
Love is the only mirror we must use to judge ourselves and others.
— Bodie Thoene, A Daughter of Zion
I don't believe everything happens for a reason. But I still search for reasons anyway. It's like I don't want to admit that maybe everything really is totally random...that people are just molecules in the air, bumping into each other and floating away again."-p150, NOTES TO SELF
— Avery Sawyer, Notes to Self
Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs
— Karl Lagerfeld
A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.
— William Trevor, Love and Summer
Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.
— Charles Fort
I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them.
— John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
People are like M&Ms. They come in a variety of colors, they're hard on the outside, and full of obscene yumminess on the inside.
— Michael Makai, Domination & Submission: The BDSM Relationship Handbook
People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them.
— James McGregor
Just because people throw it out and don't have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage.
— Andy Warhol
People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples them.
— Josephine Humphreys, Rich in Love
Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.
— Confucius
It's perfectly normal that extraordinary things happen to me. I'm an exceptional person. Oh, don't think I'm boasting. I mean to say that, unfortunately, I'm exceptional and that, unfortunately, I can't live by the rules. I must make my own.
— Cocteau
We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them
— Laurence Sterne
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
— Thomas Carlyle
But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love--the lazy looping criss crosses of love, blows, stares, tears. No. It doesn't happen. No love. People meet, touch, stare into one another's faces, shake their heads clear, move on, forget. It doesn't happen.
— Joyce Carol Oates, Marriages and Infidelities
Normal....What the majority of people look, act, and talk and like.So what if the majority became what we see as wierd now?Would our normal, become our new wierd?
— Catherine of Genoa
My point is this — you don't know. When I was first here, people looked at my hair, noticed apples on my tray, and thought 'hippie.' Then, from 'hippie' they thought 'druggie.' From there it went to 'will get me in trouble' and 'not worth my time,' and then they stopped thinking at all. No one bothered to find out if what they thought about me was true. No one wanted to hear what I thought. No one cared what I believed in. No one cared about talking to me or asking what my plans were for the day or night. And then came you. Don't let what you think you know make him into what I could have been. Don't become someone who doesn't think, just because you don't like him for some reason. Because, quite frankly, I like how you think. Except for now, of course.
— Rebecca McKinsey, Sydney West
I did not ask for consciousness, yet it came to me.And I had to know.Once again, I crawled away from my bed and pushed the computer cord back into the socket.It took three minutes.I quickly identified myself and put in my password.Then it thought.I wanted to bounce impatiently, but I couldn’t make myself move.At last, I found the internet, and I typed in a name, on the company page, under my account.I searched ‘images’.And there, on the screen in front of me, was the most beautiful person I’d ever seen.I couldn’t stop the tears from welling up and spilling over as I stared back at the smiling face.It couldn’t be him.It was.Derek Erickson.And I was going to kill him.
— Alysha Speer, Sharden
IT IS QUITE ENOUGH IF A HUMAN BEING HAS BUT ONE FIELD WHERE HE OR SHE IS STRONG. IF A HUMAN BEING WERE STRONG IN EVERY FIELD, IT WOULDN'T BE NICE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, WOULD IT?
— Akira Kurosawa
Those who are weak don't fight.Those who are stronger might fightfor an hour.Those who are stronger still might fightfor many years.The strongest fighttheir whole life.They are the indispensable ones.
— Bertolt Brecht
Every place there's people, there's badness.
— Rae Carson, Walk on Earth a Stranger
History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.
— Terry Pratchett, Mort
Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
— John Fowles, The Magus
The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Crocodiles are easy,' Steve said. 'They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.
— Terri Irwin, Steve & Me
People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.
— L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The only difference between you and the person you admire is their perspective on life.
— Shannon L. Alder
People only know what you tell them.And it was true.People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a second's thought.Stand at a bus stop,sit in a strange pub,get banged up,and someone would always give you their life story.It was as if they were trying to prove they existed
— Martina Cole, Close
There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.
— Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go
If you want to govern the people,You must place yourself below them.If you want to lead people,You must learn how to follow them.
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
You come to work every day but you hardly get to know anyone. I don't even know the names of half the people I see in the elevators. They say the company is a big family, but I don't know them. And even the people I do, like you two, and Elizabeth, and Roger - do I really? I mean, I like you guys, but we only ever talk about work. When I'm out with friends, or at home, I never talk about work. The other day, I tried to explain to my sister why it's such a huge deal that Elizabeth ate Roger's donut, and she thought I was insane. And you know what, I agreed with her. At home I couldn't even think why it mattered. Because I'm a different person at home. When I leave this place at night, I can feel myself changing. Like shifting gears in my head. And you guys don't know that; you just know what I'm like here, which is terrible, because I think I'm better away from work. I don't even like who I am here. Is that just me? Or is everyone different when they come to work? If they are, then what are they really like? How can we ever know? All we know are the Work People.
— Max Barry, Company
People are messy, unpredictable things.
— Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines.
— Adrian Tchaikovsky, Blood of the Mantis
The truth is, there are not two kinds of people. There’s only one: the kind that loves to divide up into gangs who hate each other’s guts. Both conservatives and liberals agree among themselves, on their respective message boards, in uncannily identical language, that their opponents lack any self-awareness or empathy, the ability to see the other side of an argument or to laugh at themselves. Which would seem to suggest that they’re both correct.
— Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
You can force the people to obey
—  you cannot force them to understand.
You dirty rat...
— James Cagney
On the late afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business.Who is the person walking in front of you on the rain-drenched sidewalk?He is covered with an umbrella, and all you can see is a dark coat and the shoes striking the puddles.And yet this person is the hero of his own life story.He is the love of someone’s life.And what he can do may change the 
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
A perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization.
— Karen Horney
Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.
— Ana Monnar, Express Yourself 101 Kaleidoscope Volume 3
I believe all people are assholes. You won't find anyone that you like. You'll just find someone you dislike a little less than the last asshole. And I can't wait for that day. To have a woman that I can say I dislike a little less than all the other assholes.
— Travis J. Dahnke, Write like no one is reading
Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people.
— Timothy Zahn, Heir to the Empire
People who do not value you are worthless and those who do are priceless.
— Amit Abraham
Who are these people sharing the street with me? What is going on in their worlds, inside their heads? Are they in love? If so, is it the kind that Mum and Dad have? Based on having things in common, like raspberry picking and a love of dogs, and Shakespeare, and long country walks? Or is it the knock-you-out, eat-you-up, set-you-on-fire kind of love that I have longed for-and avoided-all my life?
— Alison Larkin, The English American
Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills.Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
Friday night was the night most people thought they were supposed to have fun. Trouble was most people didn't know what fun was or how to have it, so things usually ended up pretty ugly.
— Kinky Friedman, A Case of Lone Star
Leadership is never an avenue to be self-serving but,a platform to render great service to people.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants.
— Neil Gaiman
They are the people of creation. Their maker…gives them the sky to carry because they are so strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head.
— Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory
I know that people can be better than they are. We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is.
— James     Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Home isn't a place. Home is the people who love you most, the people who will always love you, forever and ever, no matter what.
— Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In
I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
— William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, ifhe is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.
— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
They served to remind Cabal - should a reminder ever be necessary - why his social skills were so poor: people were loathsome and not worth the practise.
— Jonathan L. Howard, Johannes Cabal the Detective
It is only when you accept how different you all are, that you will be able to see how much the same you all are. Don't expect anybody to be the same as you, then you will see that you are in many ways the same as everybody.
— C. JoyBell C.
Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will be done by 20 percent of the participants. In most societies, 20 percent of criminals commit 80 percent of crimes. Twenty percent of motorists cause 80 percent of all accidents. Twenty percent of beer drinkers drink 80 percent of all beer. When it comes to epidemics, though, this disproportionality becomes even more extreme: a tiny percentage of people do the majority of the work.
— Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.
— Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.
— Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.
— Charles Bukowski, Hollywood
We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.
— Paul David Tripp, Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change
I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives.
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
It's not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It's that most people do what they enjoy most on those two days. Imagine living a life where everyday are your Saturdays and Sundays. Make everyday your weekend. Make everyday a play-day…
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.
— Judith Guest, Ordinary People
SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.
— Philip Larkin
People ask without wanting to know.
— Barbara Kingsolver
People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.
— Paul David Tripp, Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change
It seems to me that you can almost define civilization by saying it's people who are not willing to hurt other people because the other people are different.
— Gene Wolfe
During the last six months the little girl Harriet, without her noticing it, had disappeared and a new Harriet had taken her place. A Harriet who looked much the same outside, but was more of a person inside.
— Noel Streatfeild, Skating Shoes
He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his being bad (in that case he could have tried to be better), but from his being shamefully and repulsively unhappy. He knew that for this, for the very fact that his heart was torn with grief, they would be merciless to him. He felt that men would crush him as dogs strangle a torn dog yelping with pain. He knew that his sole means of security against people was to hide his wounds from them
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
People have a habit of doing everyday things even under the oddest conditions.
— Harper Lee
Life is similar to a bus ride.The journey begins when we board the bus. We meet people along our way of which some are strangers, some friends and some strangers yet to be friends. There are stops at intervals and people board in.At times some of these people make their presence felt, leave an impact through their grace and beauty on us fellow passengers while on other occasions they remain indifferent.But then it is important for some people to make an exit, to get down and walk the paths they were destined to because if people always made an entrance and never left either for the better or worse, then we would feel suffocated and confused like those people in the bus, the purpose of the journey would lose its essence and the journey altogether would neither be worthwhile nor smooth.
— Chirag Tulsiani
The easiest way to gain someone's trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you're just being you and being real. Minimal effort too.
— Ashly Lorenzana
Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck.
— Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca
I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.
— Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories
I think that, people are people. That's why the way I treat the lady working in the deli who slices my ham is the same way I treat my friend who drives a Chrysler. That's why the way I treat the guy who packs my groceries is the same way I treat my rich friends. Because people are people. Some are rich and some are poor, and they're all people.
— C. JoyBell C.
Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves.
— Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people - people like you and me who did things to change the world.
— Joan Lowery Nixon, Nightmare
People are gonna leave anyway, because those who stay are not people, they are family.
— Himanshu Chhabra
But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.
— Jane Austen, Emma
Beware of those who are bored and not passionate about life, for they will bore you with reasons for not living.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Maybe that's what happens with age, I thought. All your life you force yourself to forget people who have hurt you, but as you get older and weaker their memory surfaces again, like a bubble in the water. You have to surrender, because you feel to tired to fight it and push it down again. And maybe, unexpectedly, you find out that instead, of revamping your anger, those memories produce an unexpected sweetness.
— Francesca Marciano, Casa Rossa
Which isn’t, like, as bad as it sounds, because the general public kind of sucks ass.
— Christopher Moore, Bite Me
In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
— James Madison
This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.
— Courtney Milan, Unlocked
Legend has it, dwarves were made to uncover all the riches hidden on earth. Not just golds or precious stones, but the beauty in people's hearts. -Eric
— Lily Blake, Snow White & the Huntsman
I'm collector of stuff that people make with their brain. I keep them in little jars and I take them out and play with them sometimes too. The stuff, not the people.
— Frances Winkler
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?
— Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
One of the the things she most liked about the city -apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the exhilarating walks by the river- was that so few people ever asked you personal questions.
— Julia Gregson, East of the Sun
The most unpresentable persons are generally the most interesting.
— Teresa de la Parra, Las memorias de Mamá Blanca
Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
— Sue Grafton, B is for Burglar
People who have so much of their personality invested in the Internet can’t really survive as whole individuals without it.
— Mark A. Rayner, The Fridgularity
Maybe it's wrong-footed trying to fit people into the world, rather than trying to make the world a better place for people.[as quoted in "Brain Gain" by Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 4/27/09 issue]
— Paul McHugh
Step out of the crowd of average people. Enter that game and change the values on the scoreboard.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active to take a stand now against all that is wrong while we still can, then maybe one of your children may elect to do so in the future, when it will be far more riskier — and much, much harder.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Growing up, I slowly had this process of realizing that all the things around me that people had told me were just the natural way things were, the way things always would be, they weren’t natural at all. They were things that could be changed, and they were things that, more importantly, were wrong and should change, and once I realized that, there was really no going back.
— Aaron Swartz
Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native myth? Can you be sure that the natives are not humoring you or pulling your leg? Bronislaw Malinowski thought he had discovered a people in the Trobriant Islands who had not worked out the connection between sexual intercourse and childbirth. When asked how children were conceived, they supplied him with an elaborate mythic structure prominently featuring celestial intervention. Amazed, Malinowski objected that was not how it was done at all, and supplied them instead with the version so popular in the West today – including a nine-month gestation period. “Impossible,” replied the Melanesians. “Do you not see that woman over there with her six-month-old child? Her husband has been on an extended voyage to another island for two years.” Is it more likely that the Melanesians were ignorant of the begetting of children or that they were gently chiding Malinowski? If some peculiar-looking stranger came into my town and asked ME where babies came from, I’d certainly be tempted to tell him about storks and cabbages. Prescientific people are people. Individually they are as clever as we are.
— Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
All people are enslaved by something.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home.
— Jenn Granneman, The Secret Lives of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World
She wished she hadn't succumbed to irritation. Because she wanted to know about his inner feelings. She always thought people were like pieces of art glass-- strong enough to handle and use, delicate enough to shatter under a strong blow, and filled with swirls of color that fascinated the eye. But while most people--and most glass--allowed light through, she could discern nothing of Devlin's heart and soul through the smoke and mirrors he held before him.
— Christina Dodd, Tongue In Chic
Be nice to the environment. Be nice to animals. Be nice to people. If you do that, you will leave a mark on the world.
— Enock Maregesi
When people of similar frequencies come together, output is not a simple sum of individual work, but exponential. In science we term this phenomenon as resonance. Output at this stage is beyond any logical limit.
— Ravindra Shukla, A Maverick Heart: Between Love and Life
Because that was the problem, really, wasn’t it, with being human? You couldn’t just be, couldn’t just live and exist without dragging your feet through the mud. You had to communicate, congregate, collaborate, cohabiate. You had to corroborate. Copulate. You had to co-this, co-that, co—bloody-everything, and if you weren’t co-operating you were operating with the co, which was a declaration less of independence than of relativity. You could only really exist in relation to others.
— Deborah Copaken Kogan
Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced.
— Harper Lee
A beautiful world with ugly people
—  an ugly world with beautiful people. We can never win.
You will hardly find wrong people at right places. Choose to be at the right places and you will find the right people who will inspire you to make it happen!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate: only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers, don’t fight for slavery, fight for liberty! You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure! Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world . . .
— Charlie Chaplin
What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.
— Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting
Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.
— Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake
I’m “exceptional”- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of “gifted” and “deprived” (which used to mean “bright” and “retarded”) and as soon as “exceptional” begins to mean anything to anyone they’ll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression as long as it doesn’t mean anything to anybody. “Exceptional” refers to both ends of the spectrum, so all my life I’ve been exceptional.
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon
Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can't be in life.
— Meg Medina, The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind
No matter how pathetic or pitiful, every human is fated to have one moment in their lives in which they can change their own destiny.
— Takayuki Yamaguchi, Shigurui 11
There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.
— Viggo Mortensen
Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One
The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.
— Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
There's nothing wrong with helping someone without a cost. Especially if there's no end return.
— Solange nicole
Dont feel sorry for no one if they dont feel sorry for you
— Christian O. Ortiz
Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by,and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.
— J.C. Watts Jr.
When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.
— Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
You can't always choose the people you work with, but you can choose to learn how to deal with them. They are all different." - Charles
— Rowan Speedwell, Kindred Hearts
…having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay…
— Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys
You arrange your life based on what "everyone" thinks of you or what you think they think of you,whoever everyone is...
— Esther Verhoef, Close-up
Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
I’m learning persistence and the closing of doors, the way the seasons come and go as I keep walking on these roads, back and forth, to find myself in new time zones, new arms with new phrases and new goals. And it hurts to become, hurts to find out about the poverty and gaps, the widow and the leavers. It hurts to accept that it hurts and it hurts to learn how easy it is for people to not need other people. Or how easy it is to need other people but that you can never build a home in someone’s arms because they will let go one day and you must build your own.
— Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.
— Kevin Brockmeier, The View from the Seventh Layer
I like to prowl ordinary placesand taste the people-from a distance.
— Charles Bukowski, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
It is the function of creative people to perceive relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expressions that seem utterly different, and to be able to Connect the seemingly Unconnected".
— William Plomer
the patriotic or religious bumper stickers always seem to be on the biggest, most disgustingly selfish vehicles driven by the ugliest, most inconsiderate and aggressive drivers, who are usually talking on cell phones as they cut people off in order to get just twenty stupid feet ahead in the traffic jam...
— David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
What is certain is this, that I never rested in that way again, my feet obscenely resting on the earth, my arms on the handlebars and on my arms my head, rocking and abandoned. It is indeed a delporable sight, a deplorable example, for the people, who so need to be encouraged, in their bitter toil, and to have before their eyes manifestations of strength only, of courage and joy, without which they might collapse, at the end of the day, and roll on the ground.
— Samuel Beckett, Molloy
Some people make a difference, some people make you different.
— Saleem Sharma
It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.
— Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one dating from the dim, conjectural dawn of history. But being human they were as apt to change as mother nature to remain constant.
— Robert Edison Fulton Jr., One Man Caravan
I don't feel like a person at all: I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo clock. I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river, if necessary. I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear.
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Negative people offer no hope to the person who wants to pursue their goal. They are a hinder to positive thinking and plans for a brighter future.
— Ellen J. Barrier
You don't scare a man who sees people as cockroaches.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
Our forefathers were heroes. But why were they heroes? Because they fought for democracy. They fought for the life and liberty of the Filipino people. They fought for our independence, our freedom. They fought against tyranny, totalitarianism, and dictatorship. They fought for us and that is something we must be grateful for.
— Yanan Melo, Naaalala Niyo Ba Ang Noli Me Tangere?
We will never know peace and stability in the world without balance. And we will never know balance without justice for all. Yet, justice exists only where there is fairness and equality -- when every man and country is treated and viewed equally. No country should be given power over another. In addition, no country should be granted privileges that are denied to others. No one country has the authority to decide which country will be embargoed, denied to protect itself, and will be favored based on the weight of their resources. Eliminate the hypocrisy.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem