I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be.
Tamora PierceTags: people conscience rosethorn evvy
SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.
Philip LarkinIn the case of everything that belongs to the realm of sentiment, religion, politics, morality, the affections, and antipathies, etc. The most eminent men seldom surpass the standard of the most ordinary individuals.
Gustave Le BonTags: people
He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
Anne CarsonTags: people psychology
Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.
Ian FrazierTo identify with others is to see something of yourself in them and to see something of them in yourself--even if the only thing you identify with is the desire to be free from suffering.
Melanie JoyTags: animals food people suffering meat factory-farming identifying
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
Karl KrausI never thought of clothes as having a life of their own -but they do. We all wear an outer layer to hide who we really are.
Dee WhiteLove should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
Ayn RandTags: love people virtue character business currency deal-terms
When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.
Ayn RandTags: love people virtue value standards indiscrimantely
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