I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.
—Jack Handey
You can always make time for people. The point is, you have to want to.
—Katie Kacvinsky in Middle Ground
I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.
—Angie Thomas in The Hate U Give
One thing I've learned about people is that the easiest way to get them to like you is to shut up and let them do the talking.
—Jesse Andrews in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
I believe in the inherent good of people. I believe that someone can make a mistake and live to redeem themselves another day.
—Carsen Taite in Beyond Innocence
What's important is people. The people who love us, who need us, who make us feel emotion. That's what's important in life.
—Helen Hardt in Possession
I guess I just realized how everything we do affects not only our lives, but people around us, too. It sucks that one weak moment could change the entire course of someone's life.
—Cindi Madsen in All the Broken Pieces
How disappointing when people succumb to what is expected of them.
—Lauren Groff in Arcadia
Your mind has a way of not letting you forget things you wish you could. Especially with people. Like, you'll always try your best to forget things that people say to you or about you, but you always remember. And you'll try to forget things you've seen that no one should see, but you just can't do it.
—John Corey Whaley in Where Things Come Back
Maybe if you thought about them, people never really disappeared. It sounded so corny, but there was a scientific explanation for it, too. If you believed that thoughts were energy and energy is matter and matter never disappears, then a person can never truly leave you unless you stop thinking about them. Everything you shared with a person is still there swirling around in the universe.
—Wendy Wunder in The Probability of Miracles
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
—Walter Bagehot
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
—Ogden Nash
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
—Olin Miller
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
—James Russell Lowell