Natsuo Kirino Quotes

I get along very well with people - that's both an advantage and a disadvantage.

My writing partner, Joni Lefkowitz, and I love studying girl friendships in particular because they seem defined by a combination of codependent intimacy and subtle, constant passive-aggressiveness.

It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them.

Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding.

The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

When you can't fix all your problems with your fists and the problems aren't solely physical, and you've got to deal with the emotional complexities of life and people, it's a really interesting development.

Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.

You really know a person when you sleep so near to them, or when you eat with them.

My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get.

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

I don't get along with anything, I really don't...I'm, I'm, maybe I'm just a, you know, incredibly tasteful human being.

My films are about the little things that happen between people that are sometimes far more valuable and insightful than the big dramatic things that happen.

The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.

People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?

Technology & technicians, you can always buy with money; but the wealthiest person must build relationships.

it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people

We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

Discover how little you know about the people you know.

I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.

If you’re aggressive in your dealings, that’s how you’ll be regarded in the world. You might smile and give generously, but if you frequently explode in anger, people never feel comfortable in your presence and you’ll never have peace of mind.

Just to prove i was right that it's harder to be friends than lovers and you shouldn't try and mix the two, cause if you do and then you're still unhappy, then you know that the problem is you.