P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy”
“People are are moving away from the fossil fuel-based economy, to a more renewable economy. That is what is called the 'transition town' movement. There are three hundred towns in Britain that are making this transition. Taking energy from solar power, from wind power, from water power.”
“People are arguing whether Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" is anti-semitic. Well, whether it is or it isn't, it doesn't matter, because I've been in touch with his accounting firm, Rosencrantz, Levy and Stern, and they're screwing him out of his profits.”
“People are as enriched as their language.”
“People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.”
Source: A Way of Being Free
“People are ashamed to admit they need a revival.”
“People are assholes, Mouse. You already know that.” He paused as he scooped some of my hair back, gently tossing the strands over my shoulder. “And there’s nothing to be embarrassed about.”
I glanced over at him. Everything about his steady gaze and the serious press of his lips screamed earnest. But he was wrong. “It is...embarrassing.”
“Not if you don’t let it be.” His leg brushed mine as he turned in his seat, facing me. Our eyes met. “You have the power over that. People can say crap. They can think whatever they want, but you control how you feel about it.”
Source: The Problem with Forever
“People are at the mercy of internet trolls who bring people who are excellent in their fields down to their level. They're diminishing someone's flame to make theirs brighter.”
“People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well”
“People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.”
“People are attempting to bring a superficial reality to superheroes which is rather stupid. They work best as the flamboyant fantasies they are. I mean, these are characters that are broad and big. I don't need to see sweat patches under Superman's arms. I want to see him fly.”
“people are attracted to authenticity but it's hard to Define for me, here is my best attempt, True alignment of what you think, what you say, and what you do. The hardest part is realizing that our thoughts are Fucked and that we have to fix them instead of Faking the next two”
“People are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact. The teachers who are making the greatest difference go far beyond meeting standardised test measures. They aspire to truly level the playing field for their students, which means inspiring a love of learning, fostering the highest levels of critical thinking, building perseverance in working towards academic excellence, and so on.”
“People are attracted to those who fully live life without excuses.”
Source: Rediscovering Your Happily Ever After: Moving from Hopeless to Hopeful as a Newly Divorced Mother
“People are attracted to your light because they want it for themselves. It's like fireflies. When we were kids in New York, we would visit my dad and catch fireflies because we were so attracted to their light. Put them in jars next to our bed, and then they'd die. Then we'd go out the next night and get another firefly. That's how people are.”
“People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do.”
“People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great turning points in human history when the survival of our planet and the restoration of our humanity require a great sea change in our ecological, economic, political, and spiritual values.”
“People are backsliders on their knees long before they backslide openly in the eyes of the world.”
Source: PRACTICAL RELIGION
“People are basically irritating. Myself included.”
Source: Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel
“People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.”
“People are beautiful when they share things.”
“People are beautiful wrecks.”
“People are beautifully made just like flowers in the garden!”
“People are beautifully predictable- give them the chance to see anything, and they lose interest in it at once.”
Source: Mistletoe and Murder
“People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage.”
“People are becoming more and more like pets in digital cages, where the only meaning of their lives is to consume and isolate themselves from others like themselves.”
Source: The Pythagorean
“People are becoming more intimately acquainted with people who are different than them - it's not so unusual anymore.”
“People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale.”
Source: The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
“People are beginning to realise,” the doorman of the Stonewall Inn observed a few days after the riot, “that no matter how ‘nelly’ or how ‘fem’ a homosexual is, you can only push them so far.”
Source: Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights
“People are beginning to realize that it's important that we see animals in a natural state - but through film, through video, through documentaries, at wildlife preserves, and through other humanely protected ways, which don't involve... performing for us.”
“People are beginning to realize that self-knowledge is not an end in itself. It's for the purpose of better relationships, so that we can give to our community. You can give from overflow. It's very hard to give from emptiness. . . . People who avoid self-knowledge cause a great deal of pain to themselves as well as to their families and friends.”
“People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.”
“People are beginning to recognize reggae music, and know it's a very powerful music, and researchers have been researching and coming up with reports that it's a great music, a healing music”
“People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.”
“People are beginning to understand my vision and my message because finally people are beginning to allow me to be heard.”
“People are beginning to understand there is nothing in the world so remote that it can't impact you as a person. It's not just diseases. Economists are now beginning to say if we are going to have good markets in Africa, we're going to have to have healthy people in Africa.”
“People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.”
“People are being forced to confront the realities. At the same time, we have an ever-growing understanding of the intelligence and emotional capacities of animals and an acceptance of the principle that animal cruelty is a moral problem.”
“People are being more experimental. I hear chords being played that really haven't been on the radio. I love that. I go to my kids' school and see kids playing in bands. It is a sign of what's to come.”
“People are being really picky about the upcoming election. I read that Americans do not want the next president to be a first-term senator, be over 65, or have a former president in the family. Then the Secret Service said, 'Hey, whoever slips through slips through. No promises.'”
“People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.”
“People are best judged by their actions”
“People are better inside in your head. When you're longing for them, they're perfect.”
“People are better than computers when finding patterns in images, but computers are better than people when finding
patterns in numbers.”
Source: The Grammar of Graphics. Statistics and Computing.
“People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.”
Source: Situationism: A Compendium
“People are big enough to hold more than one certainty at the same time.”
“People are bigger than anything that can happen to them.”
“People are bloody ignorant apes.”
Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
“People are boastful because of who they are, where they are, what they do... that they are highly educated or professional or rich. No matter who you are. It doesn't make sense when you boast because at the end we all have a common dinominator which is DEATH...”
“People are born in a certain place, and in a certain society. I don't mean to sound like a determinist, but to think we're entirely free to do whatever we want betrays a certain class perspective. For most people who have to work for a living, and work at jobs under conditions they may not like, it's just not simple when it comes to freedom.”