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People Quotes

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Ahmed Deedat
“Language is the key to the heart of people.”
Ahmed Deedat

Salman Rushdie
“Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.”
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

C. JoyBell C.
“Maybe we shouldn't be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you can find love in a person, but not have that person. So if you look for love, what you will find is love. But if you want to belong to someone, and you want someone to belong to you, you should look for a person.”
C. JoyBell C.

Bill  Gates
“If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.”
Bill Gates

Ayn Rand
“Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.”
Ayn Rand

Lawrence Hill
“To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.”
Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name

“Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.”
Alfred A. Montapert

Nic Stone
“You can’t change how other people think and act, but you’re in full control of you. When it comes down to it, the only question that matters is this: If nothing in the world ever changes, what type of man are you gonna be?”
Nic Stone, Dear Martin

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Arthur Schopenhauer
“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.”
Arthur Schopenhauer

Masashi Kishimoto
“People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.”
Gaara

Karl Kraus
“The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.”
Karl Kraus

Anthony Robbins
“People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals..that is..goals that do not inspire them.”
Anthony Robbins

Gene Wolfe
“People don't want other people to be people.”
Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw

Kathryn Stockett
“We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.”
Kathryn Stockett, The Help

Oscar Wilde
“Most people are boring and stupid.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Dale Carnegie
“Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.”
Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

Johnny Depp
“I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all”
Johnny Depp

Matthew Quick
“People should be nice to you, Leonard. You're a human being. You should expect people to be nice.”
Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

Garth Stein
“Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.”
Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

J.D. Salinger
“The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew

Karl Lagerfeld
“We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst � you need them both.”
Karl Lagerfeld

Randa Abdel-Fattah
“Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in when they’ve spent years taking out. No doesn’t magically become a Yes.”
Randa Abdel-Fattah, Does My Head Look Big In This?

Mikhail Bulgakov
“And now tell me, why is it that you use me words "good people" all the time? Do you call everyone that, or what?
- Everyone, - the prisoner replied. - There are no evil people in the world.

(- А теперь скажи мне, что это ты все время употребляешь слова добрые
люди"? Ты всех, что ли, так называешь?
- Всех, - ответил арестант, - злых людей нет на свете.)”
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

Steve Maraboli
“Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.”
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Albert Einstein
“Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of other men —above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received and am still receiving.”
Albert Einstein, Living Philosophies

Zaman Ali
“Justice is not natural among people, but the struggle for justice is the most noble act in society. Because justice may not be possible, but as it’s the way toward the desired society for each one to live in, that’s why its struggle is noble and regard as the highest act.”
Zaman Ali, GOVERNMENT Servant, Not Master

Iain Reid
“I think a lot of what we learn about others isn’t what they tell us. It’s what we observe. People can tell us anything they want.”
Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Francesca Zappia
“No, you're not a bad person," he said. "And Richter isn't a bad person, and I'm not a bad person. We're just people, and people sometimes do stupid things.”
Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.”
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem