People Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You have to be a two people, a saint and a sinner

~ Sangu Mandanna

How superfluous other people can seem when you are convinced you already have the only ones you need.

~ Cristina Moracho

So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.

~ Sarah Dessen

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

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

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

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

People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.

~ William Trevor

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