People Quotes

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

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

The most unpresentable persons are generally the most interesting.

~ Teresa De La Parra

Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.

~ Sue Grafton

People who have so much of their personality invested in the Internet can’t really survive as whole individuals without it.

~ Mark A. Rayner

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

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

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

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

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

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 beautiful world with ugly people, an ugly world with beautiful people. We can never win.

~ Anthony Liccione

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

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

Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.

~ John Green

I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.

~ Banana Yoshimoto

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

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

Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can't be in life.

~ Meg Medina

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

There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

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 worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

~ Alan Hollinghurst

There's nothing wrong with helping someone without a cost. Especially if there's no end return.

~ Solange Nicole

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

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

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

…having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay…

~ Louisa May Alcott

You arrange your life based on what everyone thinks of you or what you think they think of you,whoever everyone is...

~ Esther Verhoef

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

There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.

~ Kevin Brockmeier

I like to prowl ordinary placesand taste the people-from a distance.

~ Charles Bukowski