Quotes About People

I'm not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone else to be happy too.

I don't have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I'm not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone to be happy too.

most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.

Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people you are getting to know better every day, something is bound to happen.

Alone, we are doomed, but by the same token, we've learned that people are impossible, even the ones we love most—especially the ones we love most: they're damaged, prickly and set in their ways.

This family business can be so stressful - difficult, damaged people showing up t spend time with other difficult, damanged people

You must learn about people from people, not from what you read. Your reading should confirm what you've observed in the world.

Love is gentle if sometimes amused warmth for annoying and deeply disappointing people, especially ourselves.

I could make it vivid and funny, and even exaggerate some of it so that the event became almost mythical, and the people involved seemed larger, and there was a sense of larger significance, of meaning.

The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?

I like opera just fine; it's people I wanted to get away from." As

How little one guessed of people when one saw them only in the single dimension of a few days or weeks; how they lacked all the substance of the past. They seemed almost flat, like cardboard, with all the depth gone.

Fear does different things to people. Some run away. Some go forward to meet it before it's there.

Detection is not just an exercise of the mind, you know. People are real, and love and hate are dangerous.

Handsome people are often extremely selfish. To be able to charm others is very dangerous to the character. It comes as a shock, sometimes an unacceptable one, to find there is something you want and you may not have it.

But experience had taught her that such arguments failed. You cannot tell people to take into account what they do not wish to know. She

I like the people. They have imagination to take them out of the commonplace, to forget the defeats of reality and feed on the triumphs of dreams.

People do such strange things to cover guilt. We can become so cruel and so selfish when we are afraid.

I'm not talking about dislike. If you stand for anything at all, there will be people who dislike you, she said impatiently. I chose the word hate because I meant it.

Good held a mirror to other people's hearts, and the reflection was too often unflattering. People could hate you for that more than for almost anything else.

I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.

New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people.

Sometimes it seems that light can transform anything! That it is an undeniable and irreducible metaphor for grace. But do the people of the ranchitos know this? Is it for beauty that they do it? Or do they merely want a comfortable illumination in their little shacks? It doesn't matter. We can't stop ourselves from making beauty. We can't stop the world.

After all, it is a lot of trouble to hate people, isn't it? And a lot of trouble to be angry, and a lot of trouble to bother with such abstract notions as guilt or revenge.