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Other People Quotes by John Green
- So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will)…
- I love being in cities with lots of other people, because I'm reminded that there are billions of people like me, and we are each…
- When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I think that's how…
- …God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.
- Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that…
- Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to…
- The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves
- What's the meaning of life? Other people.
- Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in…
- There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the…
- There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that…
- That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.
- Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.” “My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s pause. “I fear…
- It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.
- The idea is that for ten minutes, we forget that we have feelings. And we forget about protecting ourselves or other people and we just…
- As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all…
- According to Maslow, I was stuck on the second level of the pyramid, unable to feel secure in my health and therefore unable to reach…
- Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors intend.…
More Other People Quotes
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some… — Arthur Ashe
- Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very… — Kate Atkinson
- When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe
- Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin
- That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it… — Sebastian Bach
- People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. — Russell Baker
- If you want to control other people, first control yourself. — Abu Bakr
- In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people… — Amy Adams
- People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters… — James A. Baldwin
- I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and… — Christian Bale
- I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's… — Christian Bale