Top 100 People You Quotes
#1. Ah! believers, you are a tempted people. You are always poor and needy. And God intends it should be so, to give you constant errands to go to Jesus. Some may say, it is not good to be a believer; but ah! see to whom we can go. (Works, 59)
Robert Murray McCheyne
#2. There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.
Mignon McLaughlin
#3. When you engage with people, you build your own insight into what's being discussed. Someone else's understanding complements yours, and together you start to weave an informed interpretation. You tinker until you can move on.
Marcia Conner
#4. Don't Dare take your college as a matter of course- because like freedom and democracy, many people you'll never know anything about have broken their hearts to get it for you.
Alice Duer Miller
#5. The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know.
Peter Weller
#6. Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
Thomas Merton
#7. Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it's important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know.
Catherine Hicks
#8. The hardest bit about losing people you loved wasn't thinking about the memories you had, the ones that had already been made. No. The hardest bit was the stuff that should have been, but had now been denied.
Matt Haig
#9. Her mouth was open, as if she wanted to say something, and I wanted to kiss her to show her that sometimes you don't need words. Sometimes they only get in the way, and you end up talking yourself out of things you need. People you want.
Rachel Vincent
#10. You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!
Dr. Seuss
#11. It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky.
Mitch Hedberg
#12. You cannot change the
people around you, but
you can change the
people you choose to be
around.
Semanyenzi Richard
#13. Don't let them shape you into a cold-blooded killing machine. Don't let them turn you against the people you love.
Kayla Krantz
#14. Money drives the world, but when everything falls apart to leave the underpinnings of our life bare to the scrutiny of critics and thieves, the only thing remaining, the only thing that can't be taken away, is the love you hold for the people you care about.
Kim Harrison
#15. Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!
Jack Paar
#16. You can't wait for the perfect situation. Find something you love. People you love. And get out there and you'll discover it.
Tony Robbins
#17. You want to go to work with people you like and where everyone is having fun.
Megan Fox
#18. Your relationship may be "Breaking Up," but you won't be "Breaking Down." If anything your correcting a mistake that was hurting four people, you and the person your with, not to mention the two people who you were destined to meet.
D. Ivan Young
#19. People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.
Jodi Picoult
#20. If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
Ian Hacking
#21. I feel like a spinning top or a DreidelThe spinning don't stop when you leave the cradleYou just slow downRound and around this world you goSpinning through the lives of the people you knowWe all slow down.
Don McLean
#22. I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
Mackenzie Rosman
#23. be careful with whom you spend time. My dad says, "If you want to fly with eagles, don't run with turkeys." You will acquire the characteristics of the people you spend time with.
Christopher V. Flett
#24. When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.
James Lee Burke
#25. Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
Veronica Roth
#26. Sometimes I feel like the best role models and the people you should look up to most are the people who make mistakes because they show you how to overcome them and walk through that mistake with integrity and grace.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#27. Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.
Maurice Baring
#28. Love is not controlling your loved ones' behavior. Love knows that since the people you love share the same universal consciousness, they will access their truth in time.
Cloris Kylie
#29. When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.
Edmund White
#30. If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn.
Thomas Merton
#31. Self love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa.
Karl A. Menninger
#32. My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.
John Henrik Clarke
#33. I feel like we've found an interesting little corner of the sandbox here as far as the way we're telling sci-fi stories. I don't think it's limited to sci-fi - I think anything fantastic can co-exist with people you and I know, and not these hyper-real movie people.
Colin Trevorrow
#34. DO take the initiative and introduce yourself to the people you don't know. DO say your first and last names: "Hello, I'm Heather Wells." This saves the other person from asking, "What's your last name?" DO be inclusive and greet the people you know, even if you saw them just hours earlier.
Dorothea Johnson
#35. I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.
Brad Thor
#36. I am gratified on a regular basis by the people I meet all across the country who dedicate their efforts to protecting the environment and public health and are making a difference. The great thing about working on important issues is all of the other people you meet doing the same thing.
Laurie David
#37. As Jack Handey advised in one of his "Deep Thoughts" on Saturday Night Live, before you criticize people, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
Adam M. Grant
#38. I don't think the problem is telling people you're on a diet. The problem is eating ice cream for breakfast.
Chelsea Handler
#39. Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
Edward Albee
#40. The best part of being a writer is you get to tell people you're a writer. That's still considered cool.
Dan Alatorre
#41. It's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.
Corazon Aquino
#42. Everyone you know and all the people you meet have the potential to be someone important in the lives of others.
John C. Maxwell
#43. You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality
not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.
Naomi Klein
#44. When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
Thomas Sowell
#45. There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Sophia Loren
#46. You have to be a well-rounded leader. You can't fly by the seat of your pants anymore. You have to be incredibly tough-minded about standards of performance, but you also have to be incredibly tenderhearted with the people you're working with.
Douglas Conant
#47. No amount of power is worth having when it means hurting the people you love
Katie Kacvinsky
#48. Harold sighs. "Jude," he says, "there's not an expiration date on needing help, or needing people. You don't get to a certain age and it stops.
Hanya Yanagihara
#49. To gain control over a large number of people you do not have to place them in containers with suction caps attached to their bodies like in the film "The Matrix". It is enough to create an all-encompassing information network because then people will automatically take their places in its cells.
Vadim Zeland
#50. If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
Michael Bassey
#51. First of all, these lenders are not babies. These are total killers. These are not the nice, sweet little people you think. You're living in a world of make-believe.
Donald Trump
#52. So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble.
John Podesta
#53. You should always say goodbye to the people you love before you walk away. Hug them and hold them tight like it is the last moment you have, because it just might be.
Jenna Alatari
#54. With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy.
Chuck Mangione
#55. I know what it's like to be second-best to people you love. Hell, not even second-best. Third-best. Fifth best. In some scenarios, the worst.
Krista Ritchie
#56. In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
Adam Driver
#57. In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.
Christian Louboutin
#58. If in the sex scene you happen to be naked in front of a lot of other people you've just got to put that aside, in the same way that you have to put that aside in a fully-clothed intense dialogue scene because you're entering into that particular imaginative state of play.
Geoffrey Rush
#59. Spend your time with family and people you love. Don't wait for festivals be with them, each moment you're with them, that's a festival.
Sarvesh Jain
#60. Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.
Will Cuppy
#61. It turns out that you don't end up with the people you love; by definition, you end up with the ones who stay.
Andrew Sean Greer
#62. I know you're frustrated, Sam, but the reality is you're in a world now where the majority of the people you run into will be able to snap you like a twig."
"My world was like that before.
Lish McBride
#63. Delegate - work smarter not harder; do what you do best and drop the rest; get control of your calendar; do what you love because it will give you energy; work with people you like so your energy isn't depleted.
John C. Maxwell
#64. Until you irritate some people, you don't have a base that waits to your every prophetic word. You cannot be a prophet to all.
Assegid Habtewold
#65. You cannot develop people. You must allow people to develop themselves.
Julius Nyerere
#66. Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
Daniel Gillies
#67. YOU CAN'T DEPEND ON PEOPLE BECAUSE ...
... they go away.
... strangers die.
... people you know fairly well die.
... friends die.
... people murder people, like in books.
... your own folks can die.
So ...
Ray Bradbury
#68. My mother says there are people you meet and get to know, and then there are people you meet and already know.
Colleen Hoover
#69. Why did you love her?'
'Well,' I say, 'what a question, anyway!'
How on earth can you say why you love people? You might as well say you know where the lightning is going to strike.
Jean Rhys
#70. I can't worry about what people are going to think of me and if they're going to like me more than other people. You just have to be present and live in the moment and if it works out, then awesome and I wish everyone who is trying to do the same thing, genuinely the best of luck.
Victoria Justice
#71. This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.
Zadie Smith
#72. Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.
Dorothea Lange
#73. In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.
Bijou Phillips
#74. Live long enough and you'll disappoint everyone. People think you're able to help them and usually you can't. And so it becomes a process of choosing the one or two people you try hardest not to disappoint. The person in my life I am determined not to disappoint is you.
Dave Eggers
#76. When you THROW DIRT at people, you're not doing a thing but LOSING GROUND.
Zig Ziglar
#77. It's often said that you're the product of the five people you spend the most time with. If you allow even one of those five people to be toxic, you'll soon find out how capable he or she is of holding you back.
Travis Bradberry
#78. You are only as good as the people you work with, I think.
Josh Lawson
#79. Just date people you like, then you're guaranteed to have fun.
Logan Henderson
#80. It is the rarest of qualities: to feel something - anything - for someone beside yourself. And in my experience it is rarer still to have empathy for people you don't know.
Francine Prose
#81. I hate people like that, people you have to protect while they keep hurting you.
Marlon James
#82. We all screw up. Everyone makes mistakes. That's what she did. It was bad judgment, that's all. You don't cut off the people you love for mistakes like that.
Richelle Mead
#83. When you like people you forgive their faults and look past their mistakes.
J.A. Huss
#84. There are films that I don't like, and then someone will come up to me and say it's their favorite movie. The movies belong to the people. You make them and you put them out. For me, I love the process of making films. For me, my favorite film is always my next one.
Denzel Washington
#85. Love and hope," she said. "That's life to me. Love for all the good that happens to you and the people you care about, and hope that any pain will be bearable or lessen in time.
Emma Scott
#86. Liar," she spat. "Because the only way anyone will ever be okay with me is if they love me. Really love me enought to not care that I'm damaged. You don't love people. You have sex with them. So how could you want to be with me?
Katie McGarry
#87. We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.
Adam Savage
#88. If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
John Dryden
#89. In many ways, Big Brother is the present day equivalent of a 1980s Club 18-30 Holiday - flirting, sunbathing, silly little organised games, and lots of people you'd like to remove from the genepool with a cricket bat.
Charlie Brooker
#90. Are you going to right your wrongs? Are you going to save the people you've unknowingly harmed?
Sarah Noffke
#91. There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.
Mitch Albom
#92. Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Peter Ustinov
#93. Some science guy creating them in the lab." Her voice darkened. "One day they're going to make a mistake - a big one - and mutant clone cows are going to revolt and start eating people. You wait and see.
J.D. Robb
#94. Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.
Sean Covey
#95. Being aloof, gruff, or stern never got anyone anywhere. Who wants to be treated like that? Certainly not you. And surely not the people you meet.
Wayne D. Dosick
#96. It's only lonely at the top if you forget all the people you met along the way and fail to acknowledge their contributions to your success.
Harvey MacKay
#97. In life, the faster you move on the more people you'll have to say goodbye to
S.E. Sever
#98. Despite my ability to read people, I felt like an outsider, like someone watching a party from the other side of the glass. I could see these things unfold, but I couldn't quite understand the dynamics, the deep knowing that comes from growing up with people you care about.
Sarah Ockler
#100. There are certain people you can just be silent with - like Dad, and Megan - and it's every bit as good as a long heart-to-heart.
Emily Henry
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