Top 100 People Just Quotes
#1. . . .I think a lot of people just don't want to go back. Sometimes that's the best thing to do--to live in the present.
Jamie Ford
#2. Often people just don't see what I see. They have too much doubt. You can't do your best when you're doubting yourself. If you don't believe in yourself, who will?
Michael Jackson
#3. Sometimes people just can't take how real the world can be. Even if they're your friend they'll drop away from you like petals from a dying flower to keep their own sanity.
Jason E. Hodges
#4. My victims never knew what was going to happen to them. I've had shooting, knifings, strangulations, beatings, and I've participated in actual crucifixions of humans. All across the country, there's people just like me, who set out to destroy life.
Henry Lee Lucas
#5. Oh, terrific," Dan muttered. "Just what we need. Another code! Why can't people just say what they mean? Why can't they say THE MAP IS IN THE DESK?
Jude Watson
#6. The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike.
J. C. Watts
#7. It's my opinion, with some people, just knowing they are alone, living inside of their own miserable, self hating, dysfunctional mind, with their own immature, insecure, self pitying self is its own revenge. Their existence is their karma.
Colleen Truscott Fry
#8. If the fat people just gave the skinny people more food, we could all just eat ... We could solve obesity and hunger at the same time.
Ashton Kutcher
#9. It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.
Christopher Darden
#10. Granny Blue said that everybody you meet is just a walking, talking broken heart. Some people just put the pieces back together better than others.
Natalie Lloyd
#12. Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono. I mean it's ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
Adam Savage
#13. Obama is the new kid with the weird name who people just sense is a little classier than his surroundings. He moved from a private school where he was class president and is now at the giant public high school with the metal detectors and the smoking lounge.
Adam McKay
#14. Love is a simple thing by nature, people just like to screw it up and make it heavier than it is meant to be. That's why it's earned such a bad name.
Nicole Williams
#15. People just like to be on camera. There's a huge desire to be in front of the camera, and once there, people will say and do almost anything. It's sort of a drug, and I think people get addicted to it.
Steve Carell
#16. Some people just wait for someone to take them under their wings but they should just find someones wings to grab onto.
Andrea Jung
#17. There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.
Josh Trank
#18. People just dump their trash here and don't even care about who has to pick it up. Like they think the trash fairy's gonna do it or something.
Karin Slaughter
#19. We won with the military. We won with highly educated, pretty well educated and poorly educated. But we won with everything, tall people, short people, fat people, skinny people just won.
Donald Trump
#20. Some of those STINKIN' press people just had to make fun of my decision in joining the show. They also made fun of other choices in my life that I was proud of then and still am now!!!
Ruth Buzzi
#21. Impossible things happen. When they do happen, most people just deal with it. Today, like every day, roughly five thousand people on the face of the planet will experience one-chance-in-a-million things, and not one of them will refuse to believe the evidence of their senses.
Neil Gaiman
#22. Some people just have a natural gift and some people really have to work at it and I'm more of the second kind. I always had to grind it out, where from him it just flowed.
Ralph Reese
#23. When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts.
Gautama Buddha
#24. The theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free ... I want the theater to be made accessible to the people.
Eva Le Gallienne
#25. Are you kidding? You just told her that an invisible man who tells you to kill people just showed up when you didn't want him to." "Not one of our smoothest interactions," Tobias agreed.
Brandon Sanderson
#26. Sometimes people just don't understand the way that I work in politics.
John Kasich
#27. Most people just live, but an educated person lives, enjoys, and knows why they live.
Debasish Mridha
#28. I wish that people would stop destroying other people just because they were once destroyed.
Karen Salmansohn
#29. Postpartum depression is very, very common but a lot of people just don't recognize that they have it. A lot of physicians also don't ask (patients) about it, so it's a problem from both sides,
Jose Gonzalez
#30. Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.
Gloria Steinem
#31. To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they
wish.
Heraclitus
#32. People just ... disappear," he says.
"The Earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex.
"Eerie." Kimball yawns, stretching. "Really eerie."
"Ominous." I nod my agreement.
"It's just"- he sights, exasperated- "futile.
Bret Easton Ellis
#33. Some people just shouldn't be disturbed in their inclinations, whether large or small. A reminder can instantly turn enthusiasm into aversion and spoil everything.
Tove Jansson
#34. I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.
Michael Palin
#35. Life is beautiful. Some people just remind you of that more than others.
Erica Bauermeister
#36. Some people just get what they want in the world.
Paul Graham
#37. Is the world really a better place now that nothing is considered bad? People just do what they want, with anyone. How is that different from what animals do in the wild?
Diana Palmer
#38. I don't think the label cares about an album ... People just want their number-one record.
Peter Tosh
#39. Some people just love to stir the pot, but don't realize they're cooking themselves.
Richie Norton
#40. I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just so a relative handful of self-righteous environmental cultists can go around feeling puffed up with themselves.
Thomas Sowell
#41. In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages.
Itzhak Perlman
#42. It's just that I coulda swore you had sung me a love song back there
and that you meant it
but I guess sometimes people just chew with their mouth open
Buddy Wakefield
#43. I think that, like anything, people take their image and what they want somebody else to be and then people just run with it. And when you really know the person and really love the person, you recognize that that person is nothing like that.
Kate Hudson
#44. Most people just want to pass quietly in society. No preconceptions, no prejudices.
Leah Raeder
#45. My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.
Meg Cabot
#46. Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium.
Robert Rodriguez
#47. I think my fans respect me for bein' as truthful and honest as you can be and still be Rap music and not be opinion music. It's still Rap, its still style, flavor, flair, and people just kind of like how I present myself and the things that I do.
Ice Cube
#48. ...sometimes you have to hurt people just to prove you're alive.
Amy Engel
#49. A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.
Drew Houston
#50. I guess if you're smart enough, you can do and say what you like and people just call you eccentric. It's like being old."
"Or rich," Alex said.
David Walton
#51. There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison, and other people just hate him regular.
Buddy Hackett
#52. Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the fall of Rome did it take for a Dante to appear? Many, many years.
Gary Shteyngart
#53. I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.
Eliot Paulina Sumner
#54. 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
#55. Democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time. Most people's daily lives are just about surviving. Most people don't have time to really study [crucial] issues.
Brad Pitt
#56. Even if people just change two or three things that they are able to sustain over time, it makes quite a difference eventually.
Tom Rath
#58. People just don't understand, they aren't your level and they won't get there soon. So move because you will fall from there!
Deyth Banger
#59. I just keep losing. I mean, some people just...are supposed to lose? For balance in the universe? I mean, like, are there just some people on earth who...are supposed to be here just to make it easier for the winners?
Donald Glover
#60. How strange it was that people just kept on going, even when their world no longer existed.
Kate Atkinson
#61. Everyone is weird. Some people just try to act normal.
Stephanie Tom
#62. Some people just make me feel mentally endangered. Whatever dark stuff is going on in their head, it's coming at me and I need to escape.
Heidi Julavits
#64. Being a dick is when you're so self-centered, you think your ideas are pretty much the only worthy ones, and you secretly believe other people are inferior to you. [ ... ] You'd rather believe other people just can't handle how awesome you are. And you're right. All that awesomeness sucks, actually.
Tracy McMillan
#65. Get haven to my house and fix her before your son resorts to resuscitating people just to kill them again.
J.M. Darhower
#66. Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.
Henry Flynt
#67. Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.
Sharyn McCrumb
#68. My drive into high tech doesn't involve a lot of people - just me and a very small team.
Raymond Kwok
#69. I'm not quite sure where the sponsorship rumour came from ... probably because I have been a spokesperson for child sponsorship so people just assumed that was the connection.
Brooke Fraser
#70. My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.
Chris Abani
#71. The nature of the task needs to be renewed so people just don't feel that all the hard work is in the same groove all the time, under the same circumstances and in the same environment.
Timothy White
#72. Why don't people just accept that life is sad and cheer up? After all, it's not going to last for ever.
Jeremy Hardy
#73. To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education.
Melanie Griffith
#74. I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason.
Matthew Bourne
#75. When people ask about inspirations, and you're like 'oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony', some people just think you're insane. I'm worried to come across that way.
Phillip Lim
#76. He liked churchyards. The graves themselves, were, of course, important, being the final resting places for the earthly remains of people-real people just like himself. They were valuable tributes from loving relatives, who'd cared about those people in life; the gravestones were historical records.
Charmian Hussey
#77. I tend to play strong characters and people just assume that I would want to play romantic comedies, which I would love to do, but there are other women that do it so great and they maybe couldn't do what I do, play the kind of characters that I play.
Carrie-Anne Moss
#78. some people just can't take getting older, even though there's nothing more certain in life than dying itself
Lisa Ballantyne
#79. My strategy has always been to give people just enough of me, then pull back. That way, they'll want more.
Keith Sweat
#80. People - just weird people are attracted to Miami. And they come there not for serious reasons, usually.
Dave Barry
#81. People just want to believe. Otherwise they would have to admit that life is just a random series of good and bad things that happen until one day you die.
Nicola Yoon
#82. You would be surprised of films that people just don't see. You know what I mean? I'm always working and I'm a film buff but I'm an old school film buff.
Mike Epps
#83. I get it that some people just don't know what to make of me.
Hillary Clinton
#84. You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.
Sam Harris
#85. To me, religion is the Walmart of spirituality ... I mean it's prepackaged. Lowest common denominator. People just have to follow the present motions and rituals and rules. The don't have to think about how the words reconcile with their own hearts. Their own experience.
Bill Konigsberg
#86. I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
Larry David
#87. Some of you people just about missed it
David Byrne
#88. The '80s were a much simpler time, mainly because the only superhero movie franchise anyone could complain about was Superman, and the Internet didn't exist so you couldn't even complain about it to too many people - just, like, your mom and maybe your imaginary friend or whatever
Brian Alan Ellis
#89. After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they'd actually made some sort of choice.
Tom Perrotta
#90. I need you to be my person. I need to see you. And hear you. I need you to stay alive. And I need you to stop kissing other people just because they're standing next to you when the ball drops.
Rainbow Rowell
#91. There was a saying in our family that no one ever died; people just dried up, were hung on a hook, and conducted their affairs from there.
Mildred Armstrong Kalish
#92. I haven't been able to grasp the concept of putting your life on the line for whatever reason people go into the military for. Some people just want to pay their bills, some people believe in their country and some people do it because their parents did it, but that's rough.
Anthony Mackie
#93. Some people just don't want to put in the effort. I just show up and say some lines and I'm famous. Anyone living below the poverty line just needs to shape up or be shipped out, you know?
Zach Braff
#94. Don't do things or act out your posture and gestures to impress people, just be yourself and portray the confident 'you' with that high self-esteem. So relax because you are 'you'. Be sincere, be authentic. That will be impressive enough.
Archibald Marwizi
#95. Never explain yourself to people, just make them feel you.
Toba Beta
#96. I genuinely believe that we will look back on today as a landmark for equality in Britain ... No matter who you are and who you love, we are all equal. Marriage is about love and commitment, and it should no longer be denied to people just because they are gay.
Nick Clegg
#97. I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People just indiscriminately say "memoir" now when it's a person writing about their own life.
Richard Hell
#98. I sighed. Sometimes, killing people just wasn't worth cleaning up the mess afterward.
Jennifer Estep
#99. And to you taxpayers out there, let me say this: Make sure you file your tax return on time! And remember that, even though income taxes can be a 'pain in the neck,' the folks at the IRS are regular people just like you, except that they can destroy your life
Dave Barry
#100. Some people just fated to fuck up even when them smart enough to know better.
Marlon James
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