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Quotes About People

It's blunders, people making blunders, whether it's raiding a village and killing all the inhabitants, or killing a child in a fit of rage. Mistakes. Everything is simply a matter of mistakes.
~ Anne Rice
I suppose we could people the world with vampires, the three of us,' she said.
~ Anne Rice
On the pavements the people sang: " Ã¢â'¬ËœAnd He walks with me, and He talks with me, and lets me call Him by name.' 
~ Anne Rice
Tell me why evil people are so stupid? Why are so many of them just plain stupid?
~ Anne Rice
fancy themselves 'deprived' of luxuries and peace and quiet which in fact were never common to any people anywhere at all.
~ Anne Rice
It's still hard for me to imagine that these gentle people have broken over a thousand years of neutrality in a warning against all of our kind. They seemed so proud of their benevolent history, so psychologically dependent upon a secular and kindly definition of themselves.
~ Anne Rice
It was all entirely understandable, but Aaron had a near magical effect upon people in such states, and he soon quieted her with his words, while Mary assisted when she could.
~ Anne Rice
Where is the motorcycle?" "I ditched it. Someone will find it sooner or later and return it to the rental company." "Not in the U.S." "We're not in the U.S., in case you haven't noticed. People don't steal lost property, they return it." "How did you get this car?" "I stole it.
~ Anne Stuart
I'm afraid it's not the knowledge that makes me hit wrong notes, it's the level of skill," she managed to say sweetly, pulling herself together. "People say I play with great abandon." "Yes. Abandoned to all sense of musicality.
~ Anne Stuart
Cody cut into a huge wedge of pie and gave some thought to food--to its inexplicable, loaded meaning in other people's lives. Couldn't you classify a person, he wondered, purely by examining his attitude toward food?
~ Anne Tyler
So many unexpected people seemed to edge into a person's life, once that person had children.
~ Anne Tyler
The trouble is I'm reversible. You're hardly alive if you're reversible as I am.......But the irreversible people' they get some place. Good or bad.
~ Anne Tyler
narrowly missed connections. They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running. It had all amounted to nothing, in the end.
~ Anne Tyler
he wrote a series of guidebooks for people forced to travel on business. Ridiculous, when you thought about it: Macon hated travel.
~ Anne Tyler
So let me just catch you up on what is going on here," Cheryl told her. "There's this bunch of total strangers, see, eating lunch in a hamburger joint. All these different people on their lunch break. And these space aliens come and kidnap them and take them off to study them, because they believe
~ Anne Tyler
Sometimes, she said, it seems to me there's just these certain types of people that come around and around in our lives, know what I mean? Easy types and hard types; we run into them over and over.
~ Anne Tyler
the city interface didn't care why people were talking about you—because you were talented or merely beautiful, ingenious or just crazy, concerned about the planet or outraged over nothing at all
~ Scott Westerfeld
Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or Shay or Peris—unlike people in general—it made sense.
~ Scott Westerfeld
I'd been thinking for a long time that I should get Prius, to help the environment and to feel morally superior. Twice-divorced people rarely get to feel morally superior.
~ Scottoline Lisa
Hayat yabanc?larla dolu.
~ Sean Penn
social bonds were reinforced during disasters, and that people overwhelmingly devoted their energies toward the good of the community rather than just themselves.
~ Sebastian Junger
Humans don't mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It's time for that to end.
~ Sebastian Junger
Recalling the atmosphere of this period, Mark Pincus remarked, "There were about six people that I knew who were interested in doing anything in the consumer internet, and we all kind of went to the same two coffee shops.
~ Sebastian Mallaby
all right. It's been a pleasure. Oh, forgive me if I offended you by my laughter. Sometimes it just comes out, I can't help it. Mind you, usually I'm not cheerful at all, just the opposite. The thing is I've always found people who describe themselves by insulting others very funny. Have a nice day.
~ Sergi Belbel