John Green Quotes

I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.

Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.

People [are] as much a source of entertainment as they [are] a source of irritation. it keep[s] things balanced.

Whatever kind of introvert you are, some people will find you 'too much' in some ways and 'not enough' in others.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

The best way to know people is to work with them.

As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.

I have to be a little bit guarded, because I can be very open and I like to include people, but then again I have to remind myself to be careful.

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.

I like you, but not too much. I don’t want to like anybody too much.

It's hard for me to pry with people I know.

I find people confusing.

Sometimes you're not like the person you'd want to hang out with. Would I really want to hang out with me full time? No, you've gotta find people who balance you out.

Sometimes the ladies involved give too much of themselves, sometimes not enough.

I've had that experience of not liking people very much, but having tremendous respect for them.

Some people do have softer boundaries.

The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.

I like people too much or not at all.

Guys have guy/girl relationships so that they can have their own guy thing plus the sensitive thing with the girl.

The hardest thing to do is to trust people. Even if you know them from way back when, it's hard to trust people. There's a lot we have to deal with, and it's the price of fame.

Sometimes I don't like people. And, you know, it doesn't bother me. The hard ones are when you really like somebody, really respect somebody and they make a mistake.

No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.

I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people "participate.

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.