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Quotes About People

What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people?
~ Tamora Pierce
It disgusts me," whispered Baird, "what people allow, if they think those who commit vile acts can help them to achieve some goal.
~ Tamora Pierce
Horses are calmer people. They also don't throw things at cats.
~ Tamora Pierce (Author)
Even in Sri Lanka, the worst only happened in my imagination, I'd say, and this is so because we live on a planet where good people outnumber bad.
~ Tania Aebi
Eric's feelings are hurt. Women shouldn't say such things! They should say: 'I'll never, ever forget you! I'll never, ever stop loving you!' That's women lying plausibly out of respect for other people. Of course they'll forget. Everything is forgettable. In that lies salvation.
~ Tatyana Tolstaya
Austin cleared his throat. Given the choice between being with books or people, he'd always choose books. You could always tell what a book thought without needing to have a confrontation. People, on the other hand, defensively clung to their need to be right no matter how flawed their thinking.
~ Ted Dekker
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it's not on our side," Seth said. "Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. People who don't have them can't possibly understand.
~ Ted Dekker
Startled people look up With sheeps' heads Then go on eating.
~ Ted Hughes
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.
~ Tennessee Williams
The Program had taught me, but perhaps they'll read them here: —To believe in people over dogmas. —To not turn the other cheek, but to master and subvert the rules of the game. —To strive to find small joys even in the bleakest of circumstances.
~ Julia Scheeres
They changed the subject before I could tell them the other important lessons The Program had taught me, but perhaps they'll read them here: —To believe in people over dogmas. —To not turn the other cheek, but to master and subvert the rules of the game. —To strive to find small joys even in the bleakest of circumstances.
~ Julia Scheeres
The purpose of the theatre is to serve the needs of the people. The people have no servants. The people serve themselves. The people need revolution, to change the world, life itself.
~ Julian Beck
Religion is never the problem it's the people who use it to gain power.
~ Julian Casablancas
The fact that someone is not particularly intelligent is no guide in these things. People may be stupid and extremely complicated just as they can be clever and incapable of deep feeling.
~ Julian Fellowes
Sometimes you think you know someone, but maybe it's impossible to really know everything about a person, even someone you love. Maybe good people—the very best people—are just better at keeping secrets.
~ Julianne MacLean
Each time we saw her, she expressed dissatisfaction with her job because she was a people person and wanted to do something that involved more human interaction.
~ Julianne MacLean
When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.
~ Julianne Malveaux
I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production -- any work where you do work with other people -- of course collaboration is hugely important. One does for awhile become family.
~ Julie Andrews
I can't. I don't trust people anymore.
~ Julie Anne Peters
More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people".
~ Julie Klam
I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.
~ Julie Orringer
Bee, have you considered a job as a counselor? I think you'd be really good at relating to people. Have you ever met any people by the way?
~ Julie Schumacher
I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.
~ Julie Walters
Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say, 'hi'. You say hi and people whisper' man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude.
~ Juliette Lewis