Top 100 Liking People Quotes
#1. An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself. A warrior likes, that's all. He likes whatever or whomever he wants, for the hell of it.
Carlos Castaneda
#2. But Mrs. Wingfold had developed a great aptitude for liking people. Surely more people would allow themselves to be thus changed if they realized how greatly the coming of the kingdom of God is slowed by a simple lack of courtesy.
George MacDonald
#3. I've had that experience of not liking people very much, but having tremendous respect for them.
Hayley Atwell
#4. They, especially, taught me that you can't go through life not liking people because they didn't have to work as hard or come as far as you did.
Rick Bragg
#5. And this is my life, getting dumped with no warning. Or liking people who don't like me back, or who don't like me enough, or not as much as they like someone else.
E. Lockhart
#6. That was when you got to actually liking people, which was a problem. Things fell apart fast after that.
Justin Cronin
#8. Maybe when you start liking people, you start liking everything about them.
Chetan Bhagat
#9. Maybe ... it's easier to have enemies than not to have them ... If you don't hate people, you have to learn to like them ... And liking people? That's not easy.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#10. When people start liking people, that's when someone has the ability to get hurt.
Lauren Barnholdt
#11. I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J.D. Salinger
#12. I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
Jack Whitehall
#13. A song that wrenches the heart finds a knowing ear and a liking heart.
Auliq Ice
#14. Shadow found himself starting to like Smith. He told himself that liking this man was not a sensible thing to do. He had met people like Smith before, people without consciences, without scruples, without hearts, and they were uniformly as dangerous as they were likeable.
Neil Gaiman
#15. Harriet had long ago discovered that one could not like people any the better, merely because they were ill, or dead - still less because one had once liked them very much.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#16. If a script comes together, and you end up liking the people who are part of it, that's when you can make magic happen. It's a huge combination of trying to find something you think you can deliver on and a director you think you can collaborate with to make a good picture.
Alexa Vega
#17. I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.
Tamsin Greig
#18. The only thing that I really want to do is just be respected in the music industry ... And whether that means selling albums or winning Grammys or people just liking your music, thats what I really want to do.
Kris Allen
#19. Mitt Romney is saying his comments about liking to fire people were taken out of context. Yeah, what he actually said was he likes to set poor people on fire.
Conan O'Brien
#20. When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#21. Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
John Fowles
#22. How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?
Virginia Woolf
#23. What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.
Fritz Leiber
#24. In the morning I had decided that henceforth I only cared for easy loves. It is so degrading to have to persuade people into liking one, or one's works.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#25. We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn't mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.
Betty Friedan
#26. I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austen
#27. I'm hoping that word-of-mouth on the film - people seeing it and liking it - that that will drive more people to the theaters, because I haven't seen the billboards or the posters or anything.
Craig McCracken
#28. I don't mind people not liking me as long as there's mutual respect.
Liz Phair
#29. I tried softball and soccer. I just didn't take as much of a liking to it as I did sitting in a movie theater and watching people recreate a story, and doing it myself, as well.
Liana Liberato
#30. Time spent with people of not your liking is time wasted
Lou Silluzio
#31. Overall, the evidence suggests that liking continues to increase as people are exposed to an idea between ten and twenty times, with additional exposure still useful for more complex ideas. Interestingly,
Adam M. Grant
#32. I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.
Dan Harmon
#33. The truth is, it's hard to get people to like you, but it's even harder to keep people liking you.
Mindy Kaling
#34. It's a lot easier to like people when they can't make life miserable for you anymore.
Carol Kendall
#35. If love is liking someone an awful lot, then I suppose I'm in love with several people.
Stieg Larsson
#36. We ought to be able to combine opposites: the love of goodness with indifference to other people's opinions, a liking for work with indifference to fame, concern for our health with indifference to life.
Nicolas Chamfort
#37. Before, I thought I was actually fighting for my own self-worth; that is why I so desperately wanted people to like me. I thought their liking me was a comment on me, but it was a comment on them.
Hugh Prather
#38. Evil ... doesn't mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to "the Christian majority's" private liking.
Richard Dawkins
#39. I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake
especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.
J.D. Salinger
#40. I don't read good reviews. I like to know what percentages are going on. When Sony sends out something saying that people are liking the movie, I like to know that, but I don't actually sit and read the good stuff.
Evan Goldberg
#41. She had her own opinions on every subject, and kept steadily to them
very tiresome opinions they often were; as she was always thinking of what was right and what was wrong, and had a strange reverence for matters connected with religion, and an unaccountable liking to good people.
Emily Bronte
#42. I can't hate people for making judgment on me, or making a decision of liking me or not liking me. All I can do is try to better as a person. And I'm good with knowing everything isn't always going to be perfect.
Chris Brown
#43. Sa'Adar's eyes went wide. "You're mad."
"Scarcely. Why do people always accuse me of that when I'm arranging things to my liking instead of theirs?
Robin Hobb
#44. That's the way things were; people liked Lily, and while they were busy liking her, Violet got things done.
It never bothered Violet. She liked having things to do, and if her sister hadn't been there, they wouldn't have liked Violet any better. They'd only have ignored her more.
Courtney Milan
#45. Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.
Madeleine L'Engle
#46. Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving themselves. Ask people if they were lovable the minute they were born, and watch them sit back and have to think about it. One lady said, 'I suppose so.' That's painful.
Bernie Siegel
#47. Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It's happened before where people have changed direction and then everyone's stopped liking their music.
Tom Jenkinson
#48. We do all the things we can to essentially brainwash people into liking it before it actually comes out.
Dave Anthony
#49. But there are worse things than people you don't care about not liking you.
Alyssa Brugman
#50. He talked to people and fooled them into liking him, trusting him. He talked to them while he was killing them, torturing and turning the knife. It was only when there was no one to talk to that he whistled, which was why he did so after a murder ...
Markus Zusak
#51. Anyone who speaks Latin (gets egged by the populace for being a nerd) must have wondered from the start if Panem was a reference to the Roman people's reported liking for bread and circuses - for instant gratification that would distract them from the harsher realities of life.
Leah Wilson
#52. I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio.
Action Bronson
#53. I think people take a liking to a voice or something that makes them smile and feel good about themselves.
Jess Glynne
#54. Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves.
Ellen Willis
#55. You want the people to know, but you don't really want the things behind it. I have everything I ever wanted. I never wanted a big house. I never wanted a Ferrari. I mean, as I proceeded with the music, I started liking Ferraris ...
Fetty Wap
#56. I like music, indie stuff, but I don't like liking music that other people like.
Esther Earl
#57. I feel very lucky and very blessed. I just hope that I can keep doing my job and that people keep liking what I do and that the opportunities continue. That's the best that I can hope for.
Luke Mitchell
#58. I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.
Pam Dawber
#59. People may not like you, but that's cool because your heart doesn't beat from their liking. You can't live to please everyone, you're not a puppet
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#60. I'm very fortunate to be doing what I dreamed of, what I love. So few people get that opportunity. So while people continue liking what I write, I'm going to happily continue.
Michael Robotham
#61. But with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if she gave him life she can take it away and if he feels that withdrawal it will be the grave itself.
John Updike
#62. If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them.
C. JoyBell C.
#63. Weakness derives from the soul. Most everyone has one, which gives a woman like me leverage. Leverage to play people to my liking, and so I do.
E.K. Blair
#64. How then did it work out, this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it was liking one felt, or disliking?
Virginia Woolf
#65. If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#66. Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn't end up liking me - they ended up being able to deal with me.
Daniel Okrent
#67. Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
Anne Carson
#68. People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they're a part of what we do.
Davey Havok
#69. I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day; we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.
Paul Kane
#70. Like Hitler, the president used the word lies to mean statements of fact not to his liking, and presented journalism as a campaign against himself. The president was on friendlier terms with the internet, his source for erroneous information that he passed on to millions of people. In
Timothy Snyder
#71. It's absolutely surprising to me how well 'The State' has held up as far as people liking it and having fond memories of it, considering it's a sketch show.
Ken Marino
#72. The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.
C.S. Lewis
#73. I love being recognized, I love people liking me, I love the fact that people scream when I go out. I think I'll miss all that when it's taken away.
Shah Rukh Khan
#74. I wondered how that felt, to really like yourself. And I wondered why some people didn't like themselves and others did. Maybe that's just the way it was.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#75. People liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.
Edna O'Brien
#76. We're going to get the Internet we deserve, and those people who are the most active in shaping the Internet to their liking are going to win out.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#77. I'm really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it's great, you know.
Robbie Williams
#78. I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.
FKA Twigs
#79. Some of the fanmail is interesting! Some of it's the lyrics to the songs and stuff, and they'll like, send me their favourite lines, which is cool to ... know what people are liking. Most of them are really cool to read.
Miley Cyrus
#80. I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring
Benito Mussolini
#81. When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.
Morris Chestnut
#82. I remember actually liking a girl in high school who was kind of an outcast and weird, and people made fun of her. I remember hanging out with her, but I was apprehensive about telling anyone I really liked her.
Beau Mirchoff
#83. Elsa decides that even if people she likes have been shits on earlier occasions, she has to learn to carry on liking them. You'd quickly run out of people if you had to disqualify all those who at some point have been shits.
Fredrik Backman
#84. Man, I love the 'Lord of the Rings' movies. Some people would say I'm weird for liking those types of movies, but they are so cool.
Robert Griffin III
#85. But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.
Aaron Sorkin
#86. What's good about many people liking the work is that when I want to collaborate or am interested in the synergy of artists working together, nobody ever says no to me when I ask to work with them.
Rei Kawakubo
#87. The practice is enlightenment. Some people find this idea not to their liking. They want to get enlightenment in a flash. This way they become attached to something that doesn't exist. Enlightenment isn't a thing you get.
Tim Ward
#88. Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.
Jerry Saltz
#89. I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand ... Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her which positively repels me ... What an unattractive person La Sand is ... Is she really a woman? I'm inclined to doubt it.
Frederic Chopin
#91. Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.
Vivienne Westwood
#92. It's interesting how people try to redefine God to their liking. They bring him down to their level so they can understand him, then they reject him because he is too much like them.
Judah Smith
#93. If love is liking someone too much, then I think I'm in love with an awful lot of people
Stieg Larsson
#94. If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
Thomas A Kempis
#95. I wasn't even aware that there are different styles of taxidermy, traditional and rogue. I wound up really liking the rogue stuff the most, just because it is more artistic and people can go anywhere with it. That stuff I really liked. Honestly, I would have liked to buy some of those pieces.
Brian Posehn
#96. The tongue they speak there is not like any spoken in the Archipelago or the other Reaches, and they are a savage people, white-skinned, yellow-haired, and fierce, liking the sight of blood and the smell of burning towns.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#97. I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you.
Annie Leibovitz
#98. And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.
Aldous Huxley
#99. But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
Nate Ruess
#100. The truth is .. I'm okay with people not liking me. I'm not okay with them pretending that they do. Keep it real. Everybody ain't for everybody.
Nakia R. Laushaul
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