John Green Quotes on People (29 Quotes)



    I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.



    But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about.


    People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But make no mistake: In that moment, I would have been very, very happy to die.

    I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

    People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: Frst, do no harm.



    Like Rabe'a, I didn't think people should believe in God because of heaven and hell. But I didn't feel a need to run around with a torch. You can't burn down a made-up place.


    People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

    The thing about dead people..The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is... complicated, I guess.

    The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.

    You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.

    You can say a lot of things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are unduly afraid of deep fryers.


    I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad kids and the good kids and all kids--as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.

    In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.

    Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

    It always seemed ridiculous to me that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.


    It's really hard to tell whether this will be a blip on the radar screen or whether it reflects a deep change in public opinion. A lot will depend to what extent Sheehan and her vigil link up with the disquiet we're seeing in public polls, especially with the people who haven't been opposed to the war in the past.

    Other people are going to have to make the case for him. He's not in a position to do it himself.

    People want to feel good about the person they vote for. Candidates use values to evoke a positive impression.

    There's a lot of investment money out there right now. People really have done well the past four or five years and they recognize that northern Colorado is going to keep growing. So there is a lot of commercial building out there that is attracting investment money.

    I think this event will show something very important, which is that the evangelical community is not monolithic. I think they disagree on many things, and I think that will surprise people. A lot of people believe evangelicals speak with one voice and showing that isn't so serves the long-term goals of both men.

    The investment in rare coins has captured the public's imagination. People feel in their gut that it's a bad idea. That's devastating for a governor who's never been flashy but had the Taft reputation for integrity and good judgment.


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