You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.
—Eric Roth in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them.
—Tana French in The Likeness
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
—Anne Lamott
People change and forget to tell each other.
—Lillian Hellman
The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
—Henry Drummond
You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.
—John Green in An Abundance of Katherines
People travel to faraway places to watch in fascination the kind of people they ignore at home.
—Dagobert D. Runes
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
—W. C. Fields
People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.
—Sarah Addison Allen in The Peach Keeper
People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.
—Gabrielle Zevin in Elsewhere
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
—Mignon McLaughlin
There are too many people, and too few human beings.
—Robert Zend
We are the people our parents warned us about.
—Jimmy Buffett
Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past.
—Gail Carson Levine in Ella Enchanted
One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.
—Robert Fortune