Things People Quotes

151 Things People quotes by 144 unique authors

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have… — Studs Terkel
Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love.… — Dalton Trumbo
Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web. — Fred Wilson
I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business. — Steven Wright
The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things… — Tom Stoppard
I knew my mother was right, but that didn't change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they're… — Peter Cameron
Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all… — Diana Gabaldon
The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes everyday, squandering them on trivial… — Lisa Kleypas
There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired. — Stephen King
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about?… — George Bernard Shaw
I know that's the sort of thing people say and I really hate it when people say the sort of things people say. I always… — Russell Brand
These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves. — Aldous Huxley
The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the… — Eckhart Tolle
It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing. — Rob Sheffield
If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you — Haruki Murakami
Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must… — Terry Pratchett
Funny how all things people don’t understand seem to be ‘cursed’. — Nnedi Okorafor
From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make things up. 2.… — Nora Ephron
People said things they didn't mean all the time. Everybody else in the world seemed able to factor it in. But not Lena. Why did… — Ann Brashares
I listen to the things people want out of love these days and they blow my mind. I go to the pub with the boys… — Tana French
This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this,… — John Steinbeck
I felt ashamed." "But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?" "No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of… — C.S. Lewis
What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do:… — Lorrie Moore
It was only when I got to college that I realized that the rest of the world didn't run the way my world was run,… — Joss Whedon
And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space. — Frank O'Hara

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