P Quotes
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“People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that's not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner's faults honestly and say, 'I can work around that. I can make something out of it.'? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it's always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.”
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann
“People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?”
“People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.”
“People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.”
Source: The Diviners: Number 1 in series
“People always feel like there's a big split between TV and films: I'm a television actress, I'm a film actress. Maybe that's how it was but I feel like there's not that separation anymore. And actors are able to kind of flow between both worlds - and connect to both audiences.”
“People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious. "Ah, yes, that's electronic music." But they don't realize that so is the concept of actually taking a piece of extant music and literally re-collaging it, taking chunks out and changing the dynamics radically and creating new rhythmic structures with echo and all that. That's real electronic music, as far as I'm concerned.”
“People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images.”
“People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images. People may not realize that the enormous energy and spiritual power that comes through a teacher, especially in a teaching situation, has nothing to do with that person.”
“People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“People always get used to beauty, though. I haven’t gotten used to you just yet”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“People always get used to beauty though.”
“People always get used to beauty, though.” “I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he answered, smiling. I felt myself blushing. “Thank you for coming to Amsterdam,” he said. “Thank you for letting me hijack your wish,” I said. “Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa”
“People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or are not prepared to pay the price asked them. The price varies from individual to individual. Some get things at bargain-sale prices, others only at famine prices. But it is no use grumbling. Whatever price you are asked, you must pay.”
“People always get worried about whether they’re doing zazen right. But basically if you’re doing it at all, you’re probably doing it right — even if your thoughts won’t stop, even if you’re sleepy or irritable, even if it just feels boring.”
Source: Don't Be a Jerk: And Other Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master
“People always give me styling products and stuff”
“People always go on about how fantastic relationships are in the beginning, and of course everyone hates relationships when they end, but what about the middles? the middles where you know everything there is to know. Where you can look at the person you love and know what they're thinking, see something on the telly and know how they'd react;When you know exactly what they'd wear to come round and see you.”
Source: Mr. Commitment
“People always go on about sleaze, but I think it's only a small part of what I write about.”
“People always go to Paris for their honeymoon. It's like they think because the distances are closer, it's much warmer.”
“People always got the image I was an anti-Christ or antireligion. I'm not. I'm a most religious fellow. I was brought up a Christian and I only now understand some of the things that Christ was saying in those parables. Because people got hooked on the teacher and missed the message. All this bit about electing a President. We pick our own daddy out of a dog pound of daddies.”
“People always grow and mature.”
“People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.”
Source: The Complete Tudors: Nine Historical Novels
“People always had conditions. God's love was and is so unconditional.”
“People always have an opinion. Doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it's wrong, but we have to respect their opinion.”
“People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.”
“People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.”
Source: Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh
“People always have objects of relief and objects of fear. When they step into a place of relief…and are asked why they feel relief…they answer “just because.” The answer is never clear. However when they step into a place of fear…any fool will have a definite reason for their fears. Darkness, coldness, height, confinement, pain, filthiness. They will give you a list of reasons. Because in essence all relief is tied to life. All fears are tied to death. They may not be able to give you a reason to live…but they will most certainly give you a reason not to die. And it’s not limited to creatures with emotions. All those that have life…try to elude death. In other words fear. We are designed to instinctively avoid it. All those who have life…live to avoid fear. They strengthen themselves to avoid fear. They grow in order to avoid fear. That is why…it is not possible for fear to be ineffective. As long as you are alive.”
Source: Bleach―ブリーチ― 63 [Burīchi 63]
“People always have reason to hate, though they often may not find any reason for love.”
Source: Good and Evil: Two Sides of the Same Coin
“People always have secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
“People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.”
“People always have such a hard time believing that robots could do bad things.”
Source: Ensnared
“People always have these debates about who their favourite rapper is. And I think it's based upon what mood that particular person is in. If someone's favourite rapper is a lyricist then they're focused on rhymes or substance. If someone's favourite rapper is a party rapper, you know, someone who makes music about the clubs... "Oh, he's my favourite rapper". No, his subject matter is your favourite.”
“People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.”
“People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone.”
Source: 10 lb Penalty
“People always known me for rappin'. So I guess that maybe just hindered me, like "oh well, I mid-as-well go long term with it."”
“People always like stories about the little guy fighting the big guy.”
“People always like things that seem exotic.”
“People always like to have a good time and laugh, and, [among] the vast majority of the seven billion people on this earth, one thing that we all have in common is at some point we all need to pair up and find some sort of significant other, some sort of romantic counterpart.”
“People always like to hear that they're under stress, makes them feel better. You can imagine what they'd feel if they were told they weren't under stress.”
“People always live badly today; they only live well tomorrow. For the sake of ambition they strive against each other with evil deeds, but the path to glory would be easier to tread by doing good to one another. Although they always speak evil, they hope to be well spoken of themselves; although they do evil, they hope to receive good. We proclaim that we are the authors of good, but that God is the author of evil.”
“people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them”
Source: Sense and Sensibility: World Classics
“People always look aroused when they’re acting violently.”
Source: White Tears
“People always look for a superhero. I, for one, am glad that you’ve labelled this ‘Subhero.’ It puts the responsibility back on the shoulders of the individual. No more looking for someone swooping in with a heroic rescue. Give and take, help and be helped instead of remaining mired in the muck waiting for one person in the whole world to fix it.”
Source: Mission: Subhero
“People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.”
“People always loved best what they identified most with.”
“People always make choices, always take sides!”
“People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions.”
Source: Zoe: The History of Two Lives
“People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world. As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance.”
“People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating the public's taste" and I think that's very wrongheaded. I like to believe the audience is actually intelligent, because it's made up of other people like yourself.”
“People always make war when they say they love peace.”
Source: Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition