Top 100 People We Quotes
#1. It was just my point that I saw altogether too much of the people we knew. My
Willa Cather
#2. My mind was blown by how much I felt I was like Peeta. We shot in the forest near Asheville, North Carolina-a lot of fight scenes, very physically demanding. Jennifer and I totally hit it off. We're both crazy people-we don't hold anything back.
Josh Hutcherson
#3. It turns out that knowing how loved we are by God makes all the difference in the kind of people we will become.
Jonathan Martin
#4. I think there's a danger that we're moving towards a state where the people we are expected to admire are almost not human anymore, and I don't like that. I prefer it when someone looks like a nice person, and you think, 'I could have a laugh with them in the pub.'
Jo Brand
#5. It was heartbreaking to realize how we can fail the people we most love without even trying.
Aspen Matis
#6. Perhaps the people we think we know best are the ones who surprise us most.
Firoozeh Dumas
#7. You think you know someone, but that person always changes, and you keep changing, too. I understood it suddenly, how that's what being alive means. Our own invisible plates shifting inside of our bodies, beginning to align into the people we are going to become.
Ava Dellaira
#8. There are times when we look back and think, 'Do you remember when we had to lug a piano downstairs to a basement of some venue to play for five people?' We do a lot of reminiscing. It helps us keep our heads on straight.
Tyler Joseph
#9. Our elected officials are able to regulate even the most personal aspects of our lives, from the cleanliness of the air we breathe to the identity of the people we marry. Keeping this in mind, casting a ballot is not just essential - it's practical!
Maria Rubio
#10. The people we fall in love with we find singularly captivating, as are any of the people (or ideas) that inspire us, for better or for worse.
Adam Phillips
#11. With certain kinds of people,we allow for the potential development of all the beauties of human virtue within a faith that is different from our own
Victor Hugo
#12. There is more than one way to be Kluxed, and we need to think about ourselves and the kind of people we elect into public office.
Stetson Kennedy
#13. The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets
Harper Lee
#14. The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.
Lewis Black
#15. Someone once told me we have in our minds who we want, and often those aren't the people we actually want. Like, once there was a girl I thought was perfect for me - I had every box checked with her. But I just didn't feel anything.
Ansel Elgort
#16. We makeup artists are a unique bunch of people; we don't have the classic brain, the classic training, but we're creative, so we figure it out.
Bobbi Brown
#17. The horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)
Keith Ablow
#18. To me, this one brief moment proved to be my most meaningful memory at the park because it symbolized what we mean to people: We are not a cure for cancer, we are not going to save the world, but if we can make people that happy for a few hours or for a day, then we are doing something worthwhile.
Jack Lindquist
#19. Most people can't find love because they're picky, they overanalyze and they find things wrong in people. We call them flaw finders.
Patti Stanger
#20. We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.
William Boyd
#21. We have this wonderful capacity in America to Hitlerize people. We had Hitler, and since Hitler we've had about 20 of them. Khrushchev and Mao and of course Stalin, and for a little while Gadhafi was our Hitler.
Seymour Hersh
#22. I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals.
Lee Daniels
#23. Our goals and what we hope to achieve by moving to food assistance is even in supporting the crisis needs of the most vulnerable people, we provide them with the capacity to be more resilient to the next shock.
Ertharin Cousin
#24. A lot of people we tell the story to assume that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were actually part of the original Washington Irving story, which only happens to be 17 pages. It's a great starting point, and then we built on it, very much in a logical progression.
Roberto Orci
#25. We all have a sort of vague, glowing picture when we say that, something solemn, big and important. But actually all we know of it is the people we meet in our lifetime.
Ayn Rand
#26. Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.
Mark Haddon
#27. We all identify with the people we see, and in a good documentary, we are not just reading an account of the world, we're seeing and hearing our world.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#28. Sometimes we have to forgive the people we love, even if we're mad as hell. That's just how it is.
Kristin Hannah
#29. It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done.
Mitch Albom
#30. All we can do is pray, Ma, pray.
No, Child, these are the deeds of human beings. Planned by the brains of humans, and by the warped hearts of humans. It is to people we must speak our words. God has never sided with the defeated.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#31. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
Marguerite Duras
#32. There never was a time when we were created perfect and fell into sin and needed to be rescued. We are evolving people; we are not fallen people. We are not a little lower than the angels. We're a little higher than the apes. It's a very different perspective.
John Shelby Spong
#33. We all just live in this giant cycle where we screw things up and hurt people we love, and then we turn around and try to atone for that by fixing other things. And maybe we're all just waiting on our turn for a broken heart and the person who will fix it.
Cora Carmack
#34. When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#35. We are neither of us the people we were then. Let us look on the past only as it gives us pleasure, and to the future with confidence and hope.
P.D. James
#36. We cannot do anything for the people we love, except to keep on loving them.
Fernando Savater
#37. Criticism is an act of love. We can never learn those people we love, but we can learn about them in such ways as to perceive more clearly that unfathomable, mysterious core that is the source of their beauty.
Richard L. McGuire
#38. It's funny whom we end up choosing to love and who ends up choosing to love us. It's rarely the people we think it should be.
Robin Jones Gunn
#39. But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?
Alexander McCall Smith
#40. You can't know what difference you'll make, but you are part of something. I think so. We all have things we're meant to do. People we're meant to care about. We're all meant to matter.
Doug Wilhelm
#41. Once befriended, our shadow becomes a divine map that-when properly read and followed-reconn ects us to the life we were meant to live, the people we were meant to be, and the contributions we were meant to give.
Debbie Ford
#42. We both grew into the people we wanted each other to be.
Alec Baldwin
#43. As gay young people, we are marginalized. As young people who are HIV-positive and have AIDS, we are totally written off.
Pedro Zamora
#44. We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.
Alexander Eliot
#45. We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.
Paul Bremer
#46. Life is about the people we meet, and the experiences we have along the way.
Joanne Clancy
#47. We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too ... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#48. We have to become the people we always should have been.
Rose Tremain
#49. I believe it could very well be unconstitutional to ban people. We are a country of immigrants, but we have to know who's coming in. They need to come in legally. And we need to be sure that we have been able to have them satisfy the criteria that we set for them to come into our country.
Jan Brewer
#50. We don't have to limit how many people we love. Our hearts make room for as many people as we want to let in.
Rachel Higginson
#51. I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.
Marcia Wallace
#52. Yes, as a people we are spoiled. We look for dinners that take two minutes to cook in our microwave instead of five, and we audibly sigh if the directions on the box require us to stir at the halfway point. Aw, I gotta stir? See what else is in the freezer.
Martha Bolton
#53. Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers.
Hunter S. Thompson
#54. We just hide from the people we love. Sad, isn't it?
C.C. Hunter
#56. Isn't it strange that its easier to be gentle with the feelings of people we care less about than those of our children, whom we love so much?
Stephanie Martson
#57. The value of networking is not measured by the number of people we meet but by the number of people we introduce to others.
Simon Sinek
#58. Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we're never going to be successful not because of you white people but because of other black people,
Charles Barkley
#59. We don't reinvest in the American people. We don't put enough money into American education.
Jedediah Bila
#60. Us as a people, we can't do it on our own. We have to understand that we're not each other's enemy. We have to stop discriminating against each other due to class and due to race and due to location or financial position.
Kanye West
#62. It is no harm to accept an invitation of a stranger,
but better visit an occasion of people we know well.
Toba Beta
#63. The shadow is not a problem to be solved or an enemy to be conquered, but a fertile field to be cultivated. When we dig our hands into its rich soil we will discover the potent seeds of the people we most desire to be.
Debbie Ford
#65. 20 If someone says, "I love God," but hates a Christian brother or sister,* that person is a liar; for if we don't love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see? 21 And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their Christian brothers and sisters.*
Anonymous
#66. don't even like the word 'normal.' It's overrated and shouldn't be applied to people. We all have different strengths, weaknesses, faults, and of course problems.
Heather Bowhay
#67. We want to increase our investment so the next year we'll borrow less. We want to make sure that we provide more jobs for our people. We need to bring fresh money.
Hesham Qandil
#68. In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
Walter Gilbert
#69. Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We cannot allow ourselves to give in to fear or shy away from interacting with the public.
Erik Paulsen
#70. Wounds to the flesh hurt but they heal fast. Wounds to the soul never go away. It's how we cope with a pain that never dies that makes us the people we are. Daily, people demonstrate acts of courage just so they can get through to the night.
Kristen Ashley
#71. These people we call Mom and Dad, they bring us into the world and then they don't follow through with what we need, or provide any answers at all really
it's a fend-for-yourself free-for-all in the end, and I'm just not cut out for that sort of living.
Matthew Quick
#72. Like any normal people, we suffered from fatigue, especially on Mondays, but that was until we decided to adopt a new simple habit that revolutionized our mornings. We now start every morning with a refreshing cocktail with our breakfast, and this gives us strength and energy to start the day.
Nitzan Smulevici
#73. The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show.
Graham Norton
#74. The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention. When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships.
Gary W. Keller
#75. Some wounds never show, not even in the mirror, until we see them in the expressions on the faces of people we love.
Cameron Jace
#77. Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love.
Nicola Yoon
#78. Because maybe it's in the stories that the people we love are still alive.
Daisy Whitney
#79. When we have passed our great test, we are then given opportunities to reach out to other people. We are able to effect change in a way that otherwise we wouldn't have been able to.
Elizabeth Smart
#80. A strange and baffling truth: that the people we're supposed to know best can turn out to be strangers, and that near strangers can feel so much like home.
Lauren Oliver
#81. We all distrust people we don't know; it's instinctive. This is why to be a Christian demands that we stretch well beyond what is natural, beyond what is instinctive.
Sandhya Rani Jha
#82. It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.
Fred Rogers
#83. When we wake up to the fact that our thoughts touch the people we are thinking about, we are again asked to choose which thoughts we send out. If we send out the thoughts of the heart, we can heal, even if the person who needs healing is far away.
Robert Moss
#84. Let's be courageous in these days. Let's choose love and rest and grace. Let's use our minutes and hours to create memories with the people we love instead of dragging them on one more errand or shushing them while we accomplish one more seemingly necessary thing.
Shauna Niequist
#85. Gay people, we die in all the movies, like we almost always die in the movie, because that's what you can do to us that's dramatic. We can't make a baby.
Guy Branum
#86. Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet.
Barack Obama
#87. The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human inertia is the problem, not invention. Something in man makes him resist change.
Thomas A. Edison
#88. The essence of the conflict today, really, is cars versus people ... We can have a city that is very friendly to cars, or a city that is very friendly to people. We cannot have both.
Enrique Penalosa
#89. We think we know people. We think that what we see is all there is. We rarely ask ourselves what goes on behind the curtain. We jump to conclusions. And we take everything very personally.
Amanda Filipacchi
#90. It is naught but pain and regret when we think of the things and people we will never have, the opportunities we may never get.
Kelly Creagh
#91. Our souls yearn for connection with all souls. There are people we think we prefer and others we don't, but half the time that's a lie: We tell ourselves the fairy tale of our hatreds out of fear, but we revisit that tale as it suits us. Deep down, we'd love to love and be loved by all.
Alexandra Katehakis
#92. Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
John Green
#93. We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.
Paul Ryan
#94. Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love.
David Gemmell
#95. Young people, we have this thing about us, this invincibility, because we're young and we're growing up and we want to have fun, and we want to be crazy, and nothing's wrong with that unless you're not being responsible.
Rihanna
#96. I could not help but think how fortunate we are when we have real friends, people we can count on and turn to and who are always glad to see us when we are lonely.
Mindy Warshaw Skolsky
#97. We should always choose to work with people we love. They are the ones who will watch our back and our future.
Simon Sinek
#98. Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'
Elizabeth Thornton
#99. Perhaps that is the only cure for jealousy, to realize that the people we resent and envy for having what we lack, probably have wounds
and scars of their own. They may even be envying us.
Harold S. Kushner
#100. Listen, Sean," Dani says. "I need you to do something. My treatment isn't over yet, and my mom and I still have rough times ahead. We need people we can really rely on. So think about whether you can be that person. If you're going to be into my mother, be really into her.
Janet Ruth Young
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