Elizabeth Moon Quotes

People don't change just because you know more about them.

Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad.

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

I'm just totally fascinated by people.

None of us can claim to be fair and square in love - and I'm definitely not a hypocrite! Humans are built to evolve with time. It depends on the nature of the relationship you share with a person. It is there today, tomorrow it may be gone; c'est la vie.

I'm very interested in what makes people tick; people are so weird and complicated.

People are unpredictable at the end of the day.

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.

No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.

It's amazing how people can surprise you.

I find people confusing.

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

The first thing you should know about people is that you don’t know the first thing about them.

We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.

Did people ever stop changing? They surprised you with fresh pain. Sometimes they surprised you with happiness, but the pain was the sharper surprise. There was no way to protect yourself from it. People could always change and always hurt you. Of course it went in the other direction too, you could hurt them when you didn't intend it and that too was out of your control.

People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure.

the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.