What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace. —Joseph Conrad in Under Western Eyes More about this quote Tags: humanity peace people universality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. —John Steinbeck in The Winter of Our Discontent More about this quote Tags: commonality people knowledge relationship assumptions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. —Dwight D. Eisenhower More about this quote Tags: politics peace people governments Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Learn your theories well but put them aside when you confront the mystery of the living soul. —Carl Jung More about this quote Tags: people soul theories mystery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them. —Ray Bradbury in Dandelion Wine More about this quote Tags: people youth sadness nature sensitivity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I love mankind; it's people I can't stand. —Charles M. Schulz More about this quote Tags: people mankind Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I began to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them — children, duties, visits, bores, relations: the things that protect married people from each other. —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: love relationships people children marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people. —Jodi Picoult in Songs of the Humpback Whale More about this quote Tags: love people fate Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It’s hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time. —Henry Rollins More about this quote Tags: relationships people Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe that people come into your life and then some go. I also think there’s a purpose as to why they were in your life at all. Each one takes a piece of you when they go. Some leave pieces of themselves with you. Sometimes it’s wisdom, or maybe, it’s a lesson. —Shey Stahl in Waiting for You More about this quote Tags: life learning memory people Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don’t have a lot of people to talk to. Not a lot of people are worth my time. —Julie Anne Peters in By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead More about this quote Tags: time people Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? —Francois de La Rochefoucauld More about this quote Tags: memory people Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. —Samuel Butler More about this quote Tags: kindness people perception taste cleverness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That’s what life is about: People come and go. —Cecelia Ahern in Love, Rosie More about this quote Tags: life people relationship ephemerality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. —Horace Walpole More about this quote Tags: solitude relationships people companionship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email