People Quotes

If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.

~ Cory Doctorow

He was like one of those pictures full of small errors, the kind you could only pick out by searching the image from every angle, and even then, a few always slipped by. On the surface, Eli seemed perfectly normal, but now and then Victor would catch a crack, a sideways glance, a moment when his roommate's face and his words, his look and his meaning, would not line up. Those fleeting slices fascinated Victor. It was like watching two people, one hiding in the other's skin. And their skin was always too dry, on the verge of cracking and showing the color of the thing beneath.

~ Victoria Schwab

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

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.

~ Margaret Atwood

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

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

Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.

~ John Scalzi

My name is David Charleston.I kill people with super powers.

~ Brandon Sanderson

People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.

~ Jean Vanier

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

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

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.

~ L.m. Montgomery

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

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

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

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

When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.

~ Aimee Friedman

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

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

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

People are predictable. That's what makes them easy to kill.

~ Shaun Jeffrey

Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.

~ 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

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

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

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

Everything seems simpler from a distance.

~ Gail Tsukiyama

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

~ Gregory Maguire

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