People

You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.

—Mickey Friedman

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

—Eldridge Cleaver

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

—August Strindberg

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

—Kingsley Amis

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

—Paul Valéry

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

—Earl Wilson

We make people into Gods, desperate that they never leave us and hopeful that someday, if we ever deserve it, maybe they'll love us back even half way.

—Jennifer Elisabeth in Born Ready

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

—Jewish Proverb

So many people enter and leave your life. Hundreds of thousands of people. You have to keep the door open so they can come in. But it also means you have to let them go.

—Jonathan Safran Foer in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.

—Jonathan Tropper in This is Where I Leave You

They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.

—Bil Keane

It is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There's only birth and death and the union of two people — and sex is the only one that happens to us more than once.

—Kathleen Winsor

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

—Frank Lloyd Wright