People Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

People hurt each other. That's what people do.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

...people with nothing to declare carry the most.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“(270,000 more people become hungry each day).”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

People shouldn't be allowed to get married until it's too late to have kids.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

People who want to find a place of rest, want to find an integrated personality, sense of self, want fewer fractures in…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary there would be a…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

People don't care enough. They don't get worked up enough. They don't get angry enough. They don't get passionate enough. I'd rather…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“well! So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The word vegetarian, I think, does a disservice because there are a lot of people who care but maybe don't care, or…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Because it was starting to get dark, and because the streets were crowded, I bumped into a googolplex people. Who were they?…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose;…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The UN special envoy on food called it a 'crime against humanity' to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Eating a piece of meat, at its most efficient, we could say is like throwing away six times that amount of food…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Ninety-eight percent of all the soy that's raised goes to livestock. So people make fun of vegetarians for being tofu eaters, but…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

My impression is that staying together as a couple does not correspond to the challenges themselves, but whether the very idea of…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

He was not such a special person. He loved to read very much, and also to write. He was a poet, and…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Because sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Everybody knows the competing identities of people who have kids.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Hunting will never feed lots of people; it will always be a hobby.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.

— Jonathan Safran Foer