Quotes About People

Y si eres tan lista como pareces, deberías saber que es una estupidez creer que la ciencia lo resuelve todo. A veces suceden cosas. Cosas que la física o las mates o esa mierda que se mide en el laboratorio no puede explicar. Las personas no pueden reducirse mediante leyes o principios, Claire. Son... chispas. Chispas de algo hermoso y formidable. Y algunas chispas brillan más que otras

Anybody who believed vampires couldn't feel things like living people did had never met Michael Glass. -Fall of Night

Rely on the internet for how you look at the world, though, and you'll see the worst side of people represented far too much.

Rely on the internet for how you look at the world, though, and you'll see the worst side of people represented far too much.

The edgy style keeps people at a distance and changes the standards by which she will be judged. That's clever and heartbreaking at the same time.

I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed … connection?

I wanted to go home to the safety of my bed and to my stuffed animals and to my people I'd known my whole life. I had nothing to say to anybody, and fervently prayed that no one there would have anything to say to me.

She said those bell people are possibly religious freaks, and we are holiday-only lapsed Catholics who support homosexuality and a woman's right to choose.

He was obstinate in the way that only truly miserable people can be obstinate.

You know what, Boomer?...You restore my faith in humanity. And lately I've been thinking that a guy can do far, far worse than surrounding himself with people who restore his faith in humanity.

I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.

he was an increasingly dangerous manipulator of the people's desperate hopes.

Hope wasn't a cottage industry; it was neither a product that she could manufacture like needlepoint samplers nor a substance she could secrete, in her cautious solitude, like a maple tree producing the essence of syrup. Hope was to be found in other people, by reaching out, by taking risks, by opening her fortress heart.

Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal. Even I, in my terrible difference, wanted nothing less than purpose and meaning. Chapter 8, pgs 35-36

My unique path through life has led me, however, to fear known threats but seldom the unknown, while most people fear both.

so many people, born with the knowledge of intuition and with the ability to reason, shaped their lives instead by sheer emotion. So many were swept away by boldfaced lies and swayed into currents of vicious fantasies, until they were so far from the shore of truth that they couldn't even see it.

These days, all I ask Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.

Someone said that everyone should stay back, so as not to stress me, but I said no. I said I wanted to see them all, to see people. I wanted to see not just the people I loved and the people I knew, but also the people I didn't know. I wanted to see people, because people had been my life, the good and bad, but always so many more good people than bad. They had been my life, and I did not want to die without the faces of people as the last thing I saw of that beautiful and mysterious world.

most people care more about their appearance than they do about the condition of their souls.

Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.

Ideas shouldn't matter more than people." He

Self-identified intellectuals were among the most dangerous people on the planet.

People should matter more than ideas.

If these people harbored secrets that might destroy them, inviting strangers to stay in Roseland was self-destructive.