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8252156 I hate it when people make fun of me and it turns out they're right. people so-true things-that-happen Catherine Gilbert Murdock
94d2a6c People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne. people L.M. Montgomery
ca315ce Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves. opinion people Sue Grafton
0ba9267 There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them. people chuck palahniuk
657b092 In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his hip, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford. humor literature men ownership people property rural-society village-life women Elizabeth Gaskell
831ae6b Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous. people relationships Paulo Coelho
9bb36f4 The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other. behavior people Alan Hollinghurst
f53b2bd The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture. painting people sculpture understanding writing Louis L'Amour
0737876 "It may well be that we can never fully adapt to our own deformities. Unable to find a place inside ourselves for the very real pain and suffering that these deformities cause, we come here to get away from such things. As long as we are here, we can get by without hurting others or being hurt by them because we know that we are "deformed". That's what distinguishes us from the outside world: most people go about their lives unconscious of their deformities, while in this little world of ours the deformities themselves are a precondition. Just as Indians wear feathers on their heads to show what tribe they belong to, we wear our deformities in the open. And we live quietly so as not to hurt one another." flaws hurt lives outside-world people precondition truth Haruki Murakami
d7e40da Life there was hard and it made people hard. people Jeannette Walls
c5f4cbe There is no one true church, no one chosen people. church faith people Terry Tempest Williams
21b1c67 As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I'm not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What's done is done; I have to look ahead. love moving-forward people stupidity Isabel Allende
c9afeb7 Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not f*ck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane. love people unrequited-love John Green
9e709eb Humankind has not learned about balance, let alone practiced it. It is guided by greed and ambition, steered by fear. In this way it will eventually destroy itself. But nature will survive; at least the plants will. ambition emotions fear greed humankind journy life nature people Brian L. Weiss
35d4cdc I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it's so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling. inspirational people Terry Pratchett
ad9964c I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled that particular smile. You know that smile that seems to knock you and tell you how pathetic you are? That's the smile I was smiling. oblivious pathetic people smile smiled stare window Markus Zusak
b0527e4 If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. love people Stephen Chbosky
324983c Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101. interrogation people story trouble Nicholas Sparks
1daf02b "You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well known every-where in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him. People are aware that this low-bred fellow, who deserves to be pilloried, has, by the dirtiest jobs, made his way in the world; and that the splendid position he has acquired makes merit repine and virtue blush. Yet whatever dishonourable epithets may be launched against him everywhere, nobody defends his wretched honour. Call him a rogue, an infamous wretch, a confounded scoundrel if you like, all the world will say "yea, " and no one contradicts you. But for all that, his bowing and scraping are welcome everywhere; he is received, smiled upon, and wriggles himself into all kinds of society; and, if any appointment is to be secured by intriguing, he will carry the day over a man of the greatest worth. Zounds! these are mortal stabs to me, to see vice parleyed with; and sometimes times I feel suddenly inclined to fly into a wilderness far from the approach of men." deceit deception endearments hypocrisy life life-lesson masks misanthropy morality people roguery society traitor truth vices Molière
1d3c16b This was a normal town once, and we were normal people. Most of us worked at the plastics factory on the outskirts of town. Then one day there was an accident... something escaped from the factory, a yellow gas. It floated over the town so fast that we didn't see it, didn't realize... and then it was too late, and Dark Falls wasn't a normal town anymore. creepy dark-falls death factory gas grief living-dead murder normal people plastics poison pollution small-town townsfolk yellow zombie R.L. Stine
6c91874 m`Zm lbshr '`ynhm mGlq@ bGbr lkhyb@ l~ HdW ymn`hm mn rw'y@ lHqyq@ people truth Elizabeth Gilbert
049a7b7 "All these angels start coming out of the boxes and everywhere, guys carrying crucifixes and stuff all over the place, and the whole bunch of them - thousands of them - singing "Come All Ye Faithful" like mad. Big deal. It's supposed to be religious as hell, I know, and very pretty and all, but I can't see anything religious or pretty, for God's sake, about a bunch of actors carrying crucifixes all over the stage. When they all finished and started going out the boxes again, you could tell they could hardly wait to get a cigarette of something. I saw it with old Sally Hayes the year before, and she kept saying how beautiful it was, the costumes and all. I said old jesus probably would've puked if he could see it." human-nature humanity people truth J.D. Salinger
a063c14 People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. The people here are going to change. The patients are going to leave. You can't rely on them. people Ned Vizzini
e0a8e8d how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken. love missing-someone pain people relationships sadness unbearable Fyodor Dostoyevsky
435d67a Death paused. YOU HAVE PERHAPS HEARD THE PHRASE, he said, THAT HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE? 'Yes. Yes, of course.' Death nodded. IN TIME, he said, YOU WILL LEARN THAT IT IS WRONG. discworld life life-philosophy people small-gods Terry Pratchett
d2a3b09 That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself. irony life mothers people Nick Hornby
7e563ba If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if people should try to spread evil reports about you, would you tamely submit to all this without flying into a rage? deceit evil friend friends-betrayal harm life people rage society wrongdoing Molière
f765d88 There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them. love lucky nick-hornby people Nick Hornby
d12409a You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about, and leave someone on Earth wishing me well, than to be stubborn and have that someone hoping that some alien would slurp out my brains. Call it karmic insurance. apologize care closure cost earth feel insurance karmic people stubborn well John Scalzi
8c88603 People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothing but skin cells as far as the world is concerned. people society Haruki Murakami
742ac6e In my experience - and this is a very awkward way to put it, since I don't really know what the word means - the strangest people in one's life are the people one has known and loved, still know and will always love. Here, both I and the vocabulary are both in trouble, for does not imply . A stranger is a stranger is a stranger, simply, and you watch the stranger to anticipate his next move. But the people who elicit from you a depth of attention and wonder which we helplessly call love are perpetually making moves which cannot possibly be anticipated. Eventually, you realize that it never occurred to you to anticipate their next move, not only because you couldn't but because you didn't have to: it was not a question of moving on the next move, but simply, of being present. Danger, true, you try to anticipate and you prepare yourself, without knowing it, to stand in the way of death. For the strangest people in the world are those people recognized, beneath one's senses, by one's soul - the people utterly indispensable for one's journey. love people strangers James Baldwin
cbad4d6 In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who decide to die? inspirational life people suicide survival writing Paulo Coelho
a074a0f mn ysh`rwn blrH@ m`an ymknhm ljlws lftr@ Twyl@ dwn 'n ytklmw novel people sitting Nicholas Sparks
ccbf235 People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. --Mrs. Miracle mrs-miracle people Debbie Macomber
b35e219 Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect. love people protect sad-truth shots wound Jodi Picoult
57e5a00 It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night. people L.M. Montgomery
2b6569d "There's a fascinating frailty of the human mind that psychologists know all about, called "argument from ignorance." This is how it goes. Remember what the "U" stands for in "UFO"? You see lights flashing in the sky. You've never seen anything like this before and don't understand what it is. You say, "It's a UFO!" The "U" stands for "unidentified." But then you say, "I don't know what it is; it must be aliens from outer space, visiting from another planet." The issue here is that if you don't know what something is, your interpretation of it should stop immediately. You don't then say it must be X or Y or Z. That's argument from ignorance. It's common. I'm not blaming anybody; it may relate to our burning need to manufacture answers because we feel uncomfortable about being steeped in ignorance." definition ignorance people ufo Neil deGrasse Tyson
c7cedd4 Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists. environmentalism environmentalists logistics people practicality realism David Brin
b2e44dd All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding--shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and self-conscious laughs, all Americans, all fearsomely alike. These people should be kept at home, I thought; lock them in the basement of some goddamn Elks Club and keep them pacified with erotic movies; if they want a vacation, show them a foreign art film; and if they still aren't satisfied, send them into the wilderness and run them with vicious dogs. americans existential people Hunter S. Thompson
fe57ab8 People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future. future hard-decisions life people success thought Brian Tracy
637921b Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are others with faults of temper, &c., evident enough, beside whom we live content, as if the air about them did us good. faults nature people personality predilection temper Charlotte Brontë
25d8465 I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing in this universe as hell, except maybe in our own terrified minds. Because if even one broken and limited human being could experience even one such episode of absolute forgiveness and acceptance of her own self, then imagine--just imagine!--what God, in all His eternal compassion, can forgive and accept. compassion forgiveness god love people Elizabeth Gilbert
438a9e2 But why is it that if you imagine a baby who smells of milk, for example, you can't help smiling? Why is there such an agreement around the world about what is or isn't a foul smell? Who decided what smells bad? Is it impossible that somewhere in this world there are people who, if they sat next to a homeless fellow they'd get the urge to snuggle up to him, but if they sat next to a baby they'd get an urge to kill it? homeless-people life people smells Ryū Murakami
f78ddf7 There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world. people wonder world Kevin Brockmeier
0885e37 Desperate people are the most dangerous. desperate most people Frank Herbert
86c3cc8 I'm just capable of entertaining the fantastic idea that, in certain circumstances, might actually be capable of thinking. It must be worth a go, since we've tried everything else. life-lessons life-philosophy living people thinking Terry Pratchett
165cfb9 "People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers darkened in the dusk. One who leans against granite railing dim dusk inspire lights people stones Franz Kafka
53e24e4 I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of it connected to the big story of the world. People weren't islands, so far as I was concerned. How could they be, when their stories kept getting tangled up in everybody else's? people stories world Charles de Lint
4b2a2ce I can never resist telling people good news. I mean, why not brighten someone else's life too? day good good-news people true Sophie Kinsella
688be7c A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world people places tragedy violence Ron Rash
a77ed41 lns yjhdwn 'nfshm hkdh lthlth@ 'sbb : m l'nhm mjnyn , 'w Hmq~ , 'w yHwlwn lnsyn novel people Nicholas Sparks
179bbfd I know that people can be better than they are. We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is. goodness life people reality self-awareness James Baldwin
b789e92 "She dances a little jig. "This would make one hell of a TV show, huh?" "Yeah. But no one would believe it." I should let it go. But it's like the hole, like the door, and I have to know. Or at least, I have to ask. "Hey, Dulcie, was any of that real?" She finishes her dance and the wings come to rest. "Who's to say what's real or not?" "Yeah, but--my barometer on reality, not so good since I started going crazy. "Yeah, well, who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?" crazy life people Libba Bray
b29bc9f The road to happiness is paved with good deeds for others. goodness happiness life people purpose road-to-happiness Lisa Schroeder
05a3dd2 Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of it. life people Nick Hornby
ce0b557 Walking was not fast enough so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing was not fast enough, so we rolled merrily along on long metal tracks. Long metal tracks were not fast enough, so we drove. Driving was not fast enough, so we flew. Flying isn't fast enough, not fast enough for us. We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can go only as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind. They wander here and there, slowly, dim lights flickering in the marshes at night, looking for us. But they're not nearly fast enough, not for us, we're way ahead of them, they'll never catch up. That's why we can go so fast: our souls don't weigh us down. humans people progress souls speed Margaret Atwood
f70e64a I've had enough of these streets that sweat a cold, yellow slime, of hostile people, of crying myself to sleep every night. I've had enough of thinking, enough of remembering. cry crying enough hostile people remembering sleep slime streets sweat thinking Jean Rhys
82cf365 Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war! people truth war Jonathan Safran Foer
ca8aef4 They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful. italy people wine E.M. Forster
3fdae95 "Me gusta la gente sentipensante, que no separa la razon del corazon. Que siente y piensa a la vez. feelings feelings-of-love gente people sentir Eduardo Galeano
9133b34 She wished she hadn't succumbed to irritation. Because she wanted to know about his inner feelings. She always thought people were like pieces of art glass-- strong enough to handle and use, delicate enough to shatter under a strong blow, and filled with swirls of color that fascinated the eye. But while most people--and most glass--allowed light through, she could discern nothing of Devlin's heart and soul through the smoke and mirrors he held before him. emotions people Christina Dodd
15db066 He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his being bad (in that case he could have tried to be better), but from his being shamefully and repulsively unhappy. He knew that for this, for the very fact that his heart was torn with grief, they would be merciless to him. He felt that men would crush him as dogs strangle a torn dog yelping with pain. He knew that his sole means of security against people was to hide his wounds from them people Leo Tolstoy
8e8c7e3 As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity. humanity people travel Rick Steves
a0d62f4 During the last six months the little girl Harriet, without her noticing it, had disappeared and a new Harriet had taken her place. A Harriet who looked much the same outside, but was more of a person inside. inspirational people Noel Streatfeild
fc4dcf1 Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss meaning something to someone, having that part of being human. mean people someone something John Scalzi
9d4a325 "We don't really want to get what we think that we want. I am married to a wife and relationship with her are cold and I have a mistress. And all the time I dream oh my god if my wife were to disappear - I'm not a murderer but let us say- that it will open up a new life with the mistress.Then, for some reason, the wife goes away, you lose the mistress. You thought this is all I want, when you have it there, you turn out it was a much more complex situation. marriage people philosophy Slavoj Žižek
a553e7c Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me. eyes love people story Sophie Kinsella
a53fd08 People are people, low or high. egwene people Robert Jordan
900b7e7 Civilized people don't . civilized emotions feelings people Mervyn Peake
9488e45 Only vulgar people boast about how happy they are humanity people Orhan Pamuk
52a185b They have no concern for facts, ideas, work. They're concerned only with people. They don't ask: 'Is this true?' They ask: 'Is this what others think is true?' Not to judge, but to repeat. Not to do, but to give the impression of doing. Not creation, but show. Not ability, but friendship. Not merit, but pull. people the-fountainhead Ayn Rand
4be3bc9 Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I'm one of the others. goodness people self-realization L.M. Montgomery
9771960 He was too many things at once - a boy, a man, and everything in between - and the differing parts of himself seldom came into balance. She found him attractive in that way. Yet the perception saddened her: she herself wasn't too many things, but too few. description people self-perception Stephen R. Donaldson
262dce1 I always figured we were born to fly, one way or other, so I couldn't stand most men shuffling along with all the iron of the earth in their blood. I never met a man who weighed less than nine hundred pounds. life lightness people weight Ray Bradbury
7cf1b83 The Warrior knows that no man is an island. He cannot fight alone; whatever his plan, he depends on other people. He needs to discuss his strategy, to ask for help, and, in moments of relaxation, to have someone with whom he can sit by the fire, someone he can regale with tales of battle. fight fire help island man people plan relaxation strategy tale warrior Paulo Coelho
a2dc4ba What is certain is this, that I never rested in that way again, my feet obscenely resting on the earth, my arms on the handlebars and on my arms my head, rocking and abandoned. It is indeed a delporable sight, a deplorable example, for the people, who so need to be encouraged, in their bitter toil, and to have before their eyes manifestations of strength only, of courage and joy, without which they might collapse, at the end of the day, and roll on the ground. example identifying-with-others people separation Samuel Beckett
4266db8 Because these fools always look up for power. People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up. hope people power respect Orson Scott Card
0b96283 You've got a chance to start out all over again. A new place, new people, new sights. A clean slate. See, you can be anything you want with a fresh start. fresh-start new people place start Annie Proulx
ea73fdd People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness. The black and the black and the black. beyond black dark darkness distracted distraction fused good goodness grab grabbing happiness happy lights people scratch see spider surface web John Fowles
52595e0 Although I don't know much about anything, I know that I have a story. I know that it is not over. There are shades and shadows of adventures and people and wild new places. Whatever Paris might turn out to be, and whatever Dr. Epstein is able to do, I want to be there to find out. life-story people shades shadows wild-new-places Emily Barr
fe7edd0 Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is. land love natural ownership people property slaves Robert A. Heinlein
9a49d31 Then he was sorry for the great fish... How many people will he feed?.. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course, not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. enemy live people war Ernest Hemingway
b5fef98 She could not have been born gray. Her color, her color of brown, was an essential part of her, not an accident. Her anger, timidity, brashness, gentleness, all were elements of her mixed being, her mixed nature, dark and clear right through, like Baltic amber. She could not exist in the gray people's world. She had not been born. individuality people women Ursula K. Le Guin
7f89d46 Bad people very often do one good thing. life people Emma Forrest
eeb8e07 And I'll stop with the lecture now. I don't like people much--they irritate and annoy me. But I'm fascinated by them anyway. people rennick story Michelle Sagara West
1e1dda3 Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the best way to calm down a scared kid, get them to go back to sleep? Tell them a story. Some shit about Jesus or whatever. delusion docile dying frightened funny happy jesus people population religion scared sleep story terrified terrifying truth Neal Stephenson
1a2462e And when I am in a new place, because I see everything, it is like when a computer is doing too many things at the same time and the central processor unit is blocked up and there isn't any space left to think about other things. And when I am in a new place and there are lots of people there it is even harder because people are not like cows and flowers and grass and they can talk to you and do things that you don't expect, so you have to notice everything that is in the place, and also you have to notice things that might happen as well. And sometimes when I am in a new place and there are lots of people there it is like a computer crashing and I have to close my eyes and put my hands over my ears and groan, which is like pressing CTRL + ALT + DEL and shutting down programs and turning the computer off and rebooting so that I can remember what I am doing and where I am meant to be going. going-out people thinking Mark Haddon
56f7d48 Imagine a problem in psychology: to find a way of getting people in our day and age - Christians, humanitarians, nice, kind people - to commit the most heinous crimes without feeling any guilt. There is only one solution - doing just what we do now: you make them governors, superintendents, officers or policemen, a process which, first of all, presupposes acceptance of something that goes by the name of government service and allows people to be treated like inanimate objects, precluding any humane or brotherly relationships, and, secondly, ensures that people working for this government service must be so interdependent that responsibility for any consequences of the way they treat people never devolves on any one of them individually. law people philosophy resurrection society Leo Tolstoy
49076d0 Is it that my habit of placing myself in the souls of other people makes me see myself as others see or would see me if they noticed my presence there? It is. And once I've perceived what they would feel about me if they knew me, it is as if they were feeling and expressing it at that very moment. It is a torture to me to live with other people. Then there are those who live inside me. Even when removed from life, I'm forced to live with them. Alone, I am hemmed in by multitudes. I have nowhere to flee to, unless I were to flee myself. people self souls torture Fernando Pessoa
87e6f91 I was still too much of a fledgling with people to understand that, in the long run, nobody is a picnic and that I was no picnic myself. difficulties flaws people Philip Roth
6180501 Leaving the group, he reclined on a couch, drank morosely, and watched people. He noticed the games they played with one another. They put on masks of civility, all while spewing their venom. games masks people venom Francine Rivers
7560eef It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspicious of swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountain climbers. humans people Yann Martel
7c9082f In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time. Even Grandma often says that, but she and Steppa don't have jobs, so I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well. In Room me and Ma had time for everything. I guess the time gets spread very thing like butter over all the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit. life-lessons people stress world Emma Donoghue
ce95a04 Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest. fait gods life people prophecy David Gemmell
e3d7053 People and their dwellings were such a thin dust on the surface of the globe, like invisible specks of bacteria on an orange, and the feeble lights of kebab shops and supermarkets failed utterly to register on the infinities of space above. globe infinities people space surface Michel Faber
03b4fd1 "I can't understand how she could have wanted to live back here, away from everything," said Jane. "Oh, I can easily understand that," said Anne thoughtfully. "I wouldn't want it myself for a steady thing because, although I love the fields and woods, I love people too..." fields home l-m-montgomery people woods L.M. Montgomery
f57d40a If you feel no love for people - don't get up from your chair.' Nekhlyudov was thinking of himself. 'Stay involved with yourself, and things, anything you like, but don't get involved with people. Just as you can eat healthily and profitably only when you are hungry, so you can have profitable and healthy dealings with people only when you have love for them. But if you let yourself deal with people without any love for them, as you did with your brother-in-law yesterday, there are no limits to the cruelty and brutality you can inflict on others - as I have seen today - and no limits to the suffering you can bring on yourself, as I can see from the whole of my life. people resurrection Leo Tolstoy
6670fda She felt a bored indifference toward the immediate world around her...She took it as a regrettable accident, to be borne patiently for a while, that she happened to be imprisoned among people who were dull. boring dagny-taggart dull indifference people Ayn Rand
70c205c I fantasize about killing people all the time. I think about how easy it would be. What if I just started showing up to Kitan rallies with an I-beam? Knock down the capitol building, force them to pass Universal Health Care, stuff aevery Ayn Rand fanatic into a big mason jar and hurl them into the sun. I could do it, you know. I really could. And then there's these people with their fucking sneers going 'You're a monster! You're a thug! You kill people!' No fucking shit I kill people!! I put holes in mountains! I break shit constantly without even trying! I saved the world on no less than seven fucking occasions, and guess what, super-accuracy is not one of my anomalies! Am I supposed to be impressed that you've never killed anybody? What a bold moral choice from a person who's terrified of violence and scared shitless of going to jail! It's like, have you ever had the option of murdering a bunch of people!? Okay, then why the fuck am I listening to your opinion on the matter!? Every day I don't kill a thousand fucking people, they should throw me a god-damned tickertape parade! female-hero killing killing-people people saving-the-world superhero superheroes Brennan Lee Mulligan
fa30d92 hnk 'shy kthyr@ l yfydn 'n n`rfh `n lns ldhyn nHbhm love novel people Chuck Palahniuk
453b3ba ...having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay... louisa-may-alcott people Louisa May Alcott
5bf8563 To that point, he had always found the vicomtesse overflowing with friendly politeness, that sweet-flowing grace conferred by an aristocratic education, and which is never truly there unless it comes, automatically and unthinkingly, straight from the heart. [...] For anyone who had learned the social code, and Rastignac had absorbed it all in a flash, these words, that gesture, that look, that inflection in her voice, summed up all there was to know about the nature and the ways of men and women of her class. He was vividly aware of the iron hand underneath the velvet glove; the personality, and especially the self-centeredness, under the polished manners; the plain hard wood, under all the varnish. [...] Eugene had been entirely too quick to take this woman's word for her own kindness. Like all those who cannot help themselves, he had signed on the dotted line, accepting the delightful contract binding both benefactor and recipient, the very first clause of which makes clear that, as between noble souls, perfect equality must be forever maintained. Beneficience, which ties people together, is a heavenly passion, but a thoroughly misunderstood one, and quite as scarce as true love. Both stem from the lavish nature of great souls. character hypocrisy kind kindness people personality ties Honoré de Balzac
fad765e I don't know if it's for the better, but I do know people aren't static. We all change from day to day. constant people static V.C. Andrews
ead9b0f People don't look like people anymore after they've fallen from over a hundred floors above the ground. disaster fall gore ground people september-11-attacks september-11th twin-towers world-trade-center Rebecca McNutt
e256ac4 People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities. people qualities Hanif Kureishi
683f283 The existence of insignificant people has very important consequences in the world. It can be shown to affect the price of bread and the rate of wages, to call forth many evil tempers from the selfish and many heroisms from the sympathetic, and, in other ways, to play no small part in the tragedy of life. people George Eliot
8fcf453 These people all fling themselves at me. Because I am uneasy and sad they all fling themselves at me larger than life. But I can put my arm up to avoid the impact and they slide gently to the ground. Individualists, completely wrapped up in themselves, thank God. It's the extrovert, prancing around, dying for a bit of fun - that's the person you've got to be wary of. extrovert fun individualist life people sad uneasy wary Jean Rhys
21e7903 People want to be safe, not free. people safety way-of-life Libba Bray
6041560 Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don't care. beastly care cellar cellars decent filthy free life locked people John Fowles
c0954de Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out how to make fake jawbone jewelry that would look like the real thing. heroes history people Barbara Kingsolver
15da5a6 ...animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people. people Barbara Kingsolver
dbee3cb Cos'e quella sensazione che si prova quando ci si allontana in macchina dalle persone e le si vede recedere nella pianura fino a diventare macchioline e disperdersi? E il mondo troppo grande che ci sovrasta, e l'Addio. Ma intanto, ci si proietta in avanti verso una nuova, folle avventura sotto il cielo. life people travelling Jack Kerouac
1d54413 Why are free spirits always so fucking dumb? free-spirits freedom fucking people stupidity Don DeLillo
b01924a Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on. nature people Mary Balogh
1c39b1d I don't feel like a person at all: I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo clock. I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river, if necessary. I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear. dissapear feelings people real thrown-away Gillian Flynn
b8810c7 I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about them. That's what people are always doing in art. They call a painter an impressionist or a cubist or something and then they put him in a drawer and don't see him as a living individual painter any more. classify collect collectors cubism cubist drawer forget hate impressionism impressionist individual living names naming painter people John Fowles
665df0f [Patricia Highsmith] was a figure of contradictions: a lesbian who didn't particularly like women; a writer of the most insightful psychological novels who, at times, appeared bored by people; a misanthrope with a gentle, sweet nature. contradictions gentle insight insightful lesbian like misanthrope nature novels people psychological sweet women writer writing Andrew Wilson
3bc24d0 It is hard to meet a stranger. Even the greatest extravert meeting even the meekest stranger knows a certain dread, though he may not know he knows it. Will he make a fool of me wreck my image of myself invade me destroy me change me? Yes, that he will. There's the terrible thing: the strangeness of the stranger. people strange stranger Ursula K. Le Guin
0920042 I can't solve any problems. All I can do is try to make sure people can't avoid noticing them. people problems spider-jerusalem Warren Ellis
8baf5fe "Inertia. Guy's law of enchantment: "People at rest will remain at rest, and people in motion will keep moving in the same direction unless an outside enchanter acts upon them." inspirational people Guy Kawasaki
d6c0f9a Penny wanted this kind of attention from the world. She wanted people everywhere to know her name and to love her. There, she'd admitted it aloud. But she couldn't do anything that would justify such massive public acclaim. She just needed a mentor, a teacher, someone to discover her. love people Chuck Palahniuk
7166bbc There are people on whom even clean linen looks indecent. evil indecency malice people Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2a0a0e9 Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be. family-drama happy people social Rebecca McNutt
1adb6c9 People never like pollution, it has become very wrong to like pollution at all. But just like there are good and bad things about people, there are good and bad things about pollution. If people were pollution we would get rid of anyone who was different, anyone who was considered an inconvenience... but we'd be getting rid of a life, a lot of lives... because we didn't like them. If pollution was a person would we still be trying to get rid of it? Would we have environmentalists still complaining and protesting and trying to get rid of all pollution? animals canada dangerous death earth environment environmentalism evil garbage help hippie hope human life litter mental-illness people plants pollution scary smog water Rebecca McNutt
f1afd0e [Patricia Highsmith] was overwhelmed by sensory stimulation - there were too many people and too much noise and she just could not handle the supermarket. She continually jumped, afraid that someone might recognise or touch her. She could not make the simplest of decisions - which type of bread did she want, or what kind of salami? I tried to do the shopping as quickly as possible, but at the check-out she started to panic. She took out her wallet, knocked off her glasses, dropped the money on the floor, stuff was going all over the place. asperger-s asperger-s-syndrome aspergers aspergers-syndrome autism check-out decision decisions fear glasses jump jumped money noise overwhelmed panic people quickly recognise sensory-stimulation shopping stuff supermarket touch wallet Andrew Wilson
ebdbd99 Just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work. What might look like the perfect life - or even an okay life - to you might not be so okay for the person living it. comparison depression feel feeling happiness human life people perfect-life reflection relationship sadness suck Michael Thomas Ford
c75d0fc When you're kind to people, and you pay attention, you make a field of comfort around them, and you get it back--the Golden Rule meets the Law of Karma meets Murphy's Law. comfort golden-rule law-of-karma murphy-s-law people Anne Lamott
94b0835 How many people volunteer for an army and then claim conscientious objector status? claim conscientious objector people status volunteer John Scalzi
449a45b Human beings are the most successful of animals because of their capability to learn, and an abused animal learns very quickly to defend itself. It also learns very quickly to trust very few people - if any. lifelessons people trust trust-no-one truthbomb Brad Thor
fb668e9 All sorts of strange people were around, people who looked more at home than she was, even the homeless ones who spoke no English, more at home maybe because they were younger, and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it. We are all migrants through time. home house life migrants migration people time Mohsin Hamid
7a54afa Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the right ones? Or, to tip it another way: how can I see clearly that everything I love or care about is illusion, and yet - for me, anyway - all that's worth living for lies in that charm A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don't get to choose our own hearts. We can't make ourselves want what's good for us or what's good for other people. We don't get to choose the people we are. life lonliness love path people questions reality-of-life sadness self understanding Donna Tartt
dcfc015 I don't like rats any more than the next bloke, but they ain't wicked and cruel like people can be. They're just ratty in their habits. people rats rodents Philip Pullman
d099156 Without faith, people perish, and they are perishing before our eyes eyes faith god people way-of-life Walker Percy
98d90c2 Most things look better from a distance...And as a matter of fact, so do most people. - The Spook, pg 435 distance introvert people Joseph Delaney
1a94b26 Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish if we are to live in society. It is one I have long ago banished from my life. You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. banished banishment be cherish illusion liking live people society wish John Fowles
d5fce86 The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places. animals beasts change creatures destroy growth human humankind men nature people prosperity take time wild world Robin Hobb
14c9a25 Hatred is the enemy, Hadassah. Not the people. hatred people Francine Rivers
d161cca Imagine a hundred million people clicking polls and typing in their favorite TV shows and products and political leanings, day after day. It's the biggest data profile ever. And it's voluntary. That's the funny part. People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are. people social Max Barry
c5c486d After all, there are those people we like and dislike, there are those people we love, and then there are those we recognize. These are the unbreakable connections. connection-with-others connection-with-people connections people Abigail Thomas
45a7180 "Each of you told what your burden was just now, except Beth. I rather think she hasn't got any," said her mother. "Yes, I have. Mine is dishes and dusters, and envying girls with nice pianos, and being afraid of people." beth burden dishes-and-dusters envy louisa-may-alcott mother people pianos Louisa May Alcott
4a3a3c6 I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God--who knows all that can be known--seems powerless to change. history people society society-problem violence world Cormac McCarthy
45d845d One of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. people Anne Lamott
034836d Ia liubliu tebia s toi samoi sekundy, kogda vpervye uvidel tebia. Mne kazhetsia, ia vsegda liubil tebia - stol'ko, skol'ko sushchestvuet na svete liubov'. Ia liubliu tvoi golos. Ia liubliu tvoe litso. Ia liubliu tvoi ruki. Ia liubliu vse, chto ty delaesh', i to, kak ty eto delaesh'. Kogda ty prikasaesh'sia ko mne, mne kazhetsia, chto eto volshebnaia palochka. Ia liubliu sledit' za tem, kak ty dumaesh', i slushat' to, chto ty govorish'. Ia chuvstvuiu vse eto, no ne ponimaiu i ne mogu ob'iasnit' - ni tebe, ni sebe. Ia prosto liubliu tebia, liubliu vsem serdtsem. Ty vypolniaesh' missiiu Boga: pridaesh' smysl moei zhizni. I potomu mne est' za chto liubit' etot mir. love people shantaram Gregory David Roberts
93bfd02 In general, people were not road maps. People were not hieroglyphs or books. They were not stories. A person was a collection of accidents. A person was an infinite pile of rocks with things growing underneath. people Lorrie Moore
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