People Quotes by Jim Butcher

People have far more power than they realize, if they would only choose to use it.

— Jim Butcher

People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.

— Jim Butcher

I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.

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Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.

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People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.

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As a whole, people suck. But a person can be extraordinary

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The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

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Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do

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Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.

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Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

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I can't believe I'm about to say this," I said. "So think real careful about where this is coming from. Have you…

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Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who…

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The U.S. isn't a perfect place, but it's better than most people have managed to come up with. And all my stuff…

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Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some." Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.

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So?" Bob said. "Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved." "Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people." "I know.…

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I let out a battle cry. Sure, a lot of people might have mistaken it for a sudden yelp of unmanly fear,…

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A bunch of people are gonna be mad at me, I’ve got some kind of medical issue that’s going to kill me…

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Wait. You don't understand. I just wanted it to stop. Wanted the hurting to stop." I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair…

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Every soul is special. They’re all beautiful. They’re all far more significant than anyone on this rock realizes. I think when people…

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A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose…

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Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are…

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Love this job," Sanya murmured. "Just love it." "I need to challenge more people to duels," Thomas said in agreement. "Men are…

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Rule number one of the wizarding business. Never let them see you sweat. People expect us to know things. It can be…

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There are some people who will never understand what loyalty means. They could tell you what it was, of course, but they…

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I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who…

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A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer…

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Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a generation…

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Oh," the girl said, shaking her head. "Don't be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them.…

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Because even if they are doing something immoral, I'd be an idiot to start criticizing them for it if I wasn't perfect…

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On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too…

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My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. I'm a wizard. I work out of an…

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I don't have anything against God. Far from it. But I don't understand Him. And I don't trust a lot of the…

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in McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people. According to Mac, if you can't get up and walk over to…

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My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came…

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I'm one of those people who think that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end, and then they're over,…

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But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up…

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Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three…

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Star Trek?” I asked her. “Really?” “What?” she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together. “There are two kinds of people in the…

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Well. We’ll just have to hope that this wasn’t a loup-garou, I guess.” “If it was a louper, you’d know,” Bob said…

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I heard someone walk out of the alley behind me, and my body went tense and tight, despite my weariness. Then a…

— Jim Butcher