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Quotes About People

Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch. We experience his care.
~ Max Lucado
If the Bible is called the Good Book, it's not because its people are. Blood flows as freely through the stories as the ink through the quills that penned them.
~ Max Lucado
If the Bible is called the Good Book, it's not because its people are. Blood runs as freely through the stories as the ink through the quills that penned them.
~ Max Lucado
Ocean people are different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes....Sometimes ocean people are given to understand the newness and oldness of the world; then all morning they try to keep that boundless joy like a little sun inside their chests. The ocean also makes its people know immensity.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
One did one's work against a steady barrage of demands, of people
~ May Sarton
The saying that people who have nothing to do become busybodies is not the only truth. Excitement is a drug, and people whose lives are filled with violence are always wondering where the next 'fix' is coming from.
~ Maya Angelou
The saying that people who have nothing to do become busybodies is not the only truth. Excitement is a drug, and people whose lives are filled with violence are always wondering where the next fix is coming from.
~ Maya Angelou
For all his theatrics, or maybe because of them, I knew he was a strong man. I had always been more comfortable around strong people.
~ Maya Angelou
Watch for me and you will see That I'm present in the songs that children sing." People
~ Maya Angelou
Great art belongs to all people, all the time—indeed it is made for the people by the people.
~ Maya Angelou
I don't know why the world has to be populated by so many unpleasant people. I really don't. It really takes an effort to be rude, too. The amount of energy people expend on being a jerk astounds me sometimes.
~ Meg Cabot
It is a documented fact. I read it in People magazine.
~ Meg Cabot
Plus, I have two television sets. How many does Cal have? Oh, that'd be none. I asked. Yeah, Cal doesn't "believe" in TV. Right. You know what I don't believe in? People who don't believe in TV.
~ Meg Cabot
But one thing you can't change, unlike your hair or your shoes, is other people. Only they can do that. Sadly, they almost never do. But there's always hope.
~ Meg Cabot
On the elevator there was a man whose job it is just to work the elevator. He rides in it up and down all day, so the rich people don't have to tire themselves out, pushing all the buttons. I bet he gets carsick. I looked around, but I didn't see any throw-up. They probably take the bucket away when no one is looking.
~ Meg Cabot
I've been an investigator longer than you've been playing Vulcan Mind Meld with dead people - Tang
~ Meg Gardiner
Nahuseresh had attributed her reluctance to an entirely understandable female timidity. He didn't seem to understand that the people of Eddis had very little to do all winter beyond develop superior artisan skills and train for war.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
I know many people who are suspicious of diagnoses—they think of them as labels that reduce or stigmatize. I knew, already, that a diagnosis was not going to answer all my questions. But I craved a diagnosis because it is a form of understanding.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
When truth and virtue are so rare in almost every area of our society the world needs theatre and the theatre needs actors who will bring the truth of the human soul to the stage. The theatre may now be the only place in society where people can go to hear the truth.
~ Melissa Bruder
Boys. Drau or mortal, they were all the same.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
The vocation of putting people straight, of tearing off their masks, of forcing them to face the repressed truth, is a highly dangerous and destructive calling
~ Melody Beattie
We don't need to eliminate all our reactions to people and problems. Reactions can be useful. They help us identify what we like and what feels good. They help us identify problems in and around us. But most of us react too much. And much of what we react to is nonsense. It isn't all that important, and it doesn't merit the time and attention we're giving it. Some of what we react to is other people's reactions to us.
~ Melody Beattie
We cannot (and have no business trying to) control anyone's emotions, mind, or choices. We cannot control the outcome of events. We cannot control life. Some of us can barely control ourselves. People
~ Melody Beattie
We don't have to be so afraid of people. They are just people like us.
~ Melody Beattie