“There's no such thing as a normal life. Some lives are just more interesting than others, and we shouldn't judge people for being boring.”
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People Quotes — page 1123 of 5018
“It's not hard to marginalize people when they've already done it to themselves.”
“You want to stay alive in a zombie swarm? You go alone or in a small group, where everyone is of similar physical condition and weapons training. You never stop, you never hesitate, and you never show any mercy for the people that would slow you down.That is what the military says we should do, and if I ever meet anybody who listens to that particular set of commands, I may shoot them myself just to improve the gene pool. When you can help people stay alive, you help them. We're all we've got.”
“We are in the middle of what looks increasingly like the zombie apocalypse. Moaning people don't need help. Moaning people are intending to eat us.”
“Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away.”
“Remember how pissed you got when we had to do all that reading about the Rising back in sixth grade? I thought you were going to get us both expelled. You said the only way things could've gotten as bad as they did was if people were willing to take the first easy answer they could find and cling to it, rather than doing anything as complicated as actually thinking.”
“Sarah turned her narrow-eyed gaze on him, making me glad once more that Antimony's comic books got it wrong, and telepaths can't actually kill you with their brains. Give you a whopping headache and earworm you with annoying jingles, yes; kill you, no. (Although sometimes, when she's managed to stick "The Happy Banana Song" in my head for a week, I sort of wish she could kill people with her brain. It would be kinder.)”
“My manners have always been the first thing to go when I get upset, and some people say that they stopped coming back a long time ago.”
“The problem with people who say monsters don't really exist is that they're almost never saying it to the monsters." —Alice Healy”
“...If there’s a God, there are plenty of people who know where he is.” I shrugged, still watching the sky. ... “I just want to know that he’s there, so that I can die knowing there’s going to be someone I can punch in the mouth on the other end.”
“That’s the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.”
“There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing.”
“There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it’s not backed up by anything but fear.”
“There comes a point when you need to get over the fear and get on with your life, and a lot of people don’t seem to be capable of that anymore. From blood tests to gated communities, we have embraced the cult of fear, and now we don’t seem to know how to put it back where it belongs.”
“The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment.”
“We were interviewing an author, and we started talking about how so many of them - Salinger, Shaw, Fitzgerald - were really an odd bunch. They put a barrier around themselves, and not many people got through it. This was the spark that I really latched onto - someone who could break through the barrier. Of course [FINDING FORRESTER] really began to take shape when I began to wonder, what if it was a young person?”
“I'm always in awe of accomplished people but never "starstruck".”
“We're football people, not poets, but obviously I'm disappointed with the result.”
“There are many ways of communicating. Some hold the theory that new forms of communication between people can be obtained through hallucinogenic drugs.”
“It isn't easy to understand the lives of people different from your own.”