P Quotes
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“People are flawed," said Jace. "Not every member of your family is going to be awesome. But when you see Tessa again, and you will, she can tell you about Will Herondale. And James Herondale. And me, of course," he added, modestly. "As far as Shadowhunters go, I'm a pretty big deal. Not to intimidate you."
"I don't feel intimidated," said Kit, wondering if this guy was for real. There was a gleam in Jace's eye as he spoke that indicated that he might not take what he was saying all that seriously, but it was hard to be sure. "I feel like I want to be left alone.”
Source: Lord of Shadows
“People are flawed. I like peaking into their flaws. The way to humanize them is not to play them in any general way, but to make them very specific. If you make them specific, they have hopes and dreams and loves and vulnerabilities and quirks and you get to know them and you get to appreciate them.”
“People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.”
“People are fond of spouting out the old cliché about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his example serves to justify to us, decades later, that there is merit in utter failure.
Perhaps, but the man did commit suicide. The market for his work took off big-time shortly after his death. Had he decided to stick around another few decades he most likely would’ve entered old age quite prosperous. And sadly for failures everywhere, the cliché would have lost a lot of its power.
The fact is, the old clichés work for us in abstract terms, but they never work out in real life quite the same way. Life is messy; clichés are clean and tidy.”
Source: Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
“People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.”
“People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.”
“People are fooled by the colour of my skin. I grew up on the north side of Fredericton in a Celtic culture with an Acadian choir. Don't let the black fool you. I'm actually quite white. When people give me permission to do anything, I simply say, "I would have taken it anyway, but I appreciate you thinking I care what you think." I don't do it with a sense of belligerence. I really do mean well.”
“People are fools, not monsters”
Source: Breath
“People are forever finding something wrong with you.”
“People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“People are free and enjoying themselves. Practicing their freedom of speech, rights and freedom of choice. However, remember that there is certain Information and certain things you do not give out on social media. Don’t be too comfortable that you end up disclosing everything. That will leave you vulnerable to be used, bullied, hacked, kidnapped, hijacked, killed attacked, destroyed by everyone including your enemies. Choose not to post anything personal on social media. Not everyone is matured enough, to use the information you share with them in a right way.”
“People are free or cheap. Marketing: using Twitter or blogs. Cheap or free. Infrastructure: call up Amazon, call up Rackspace, terabytes of data in the clouds, thousand dollars, two thousand dollars.”
“People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.”
“People are free to do whatever they want to do.”
“People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!”
Source: Watch and Ward
“People are freer in America. But there are more tears.”
Source: City of Orphans
“People are fretful about lifestyle retailing because the idea that anyone's immortal soul and deepest longings can be quite so readily anticipated and consolidated with several hundred thousand other like-minded types is worrying.”
“People are friendlier in New York than London.”
“People are frightened of death, and the central lie of all religion is that there’s a cure for this and an exception we’ve made in your own case: an eternal life offered if you make the right propitiations and the right abjections. Well, I’m sorry. I think that it's the height of immorality to lie to people like that. That’s why [religion] survives.”
“People are frustrated. They're fed up. They don't think the government is working for them.”
“People are... Full of contradictions. They're lonely. And then they're not. They're missed. And then they're not.”
Source: 漂えど沈まず、されど泣きもせず [Tadayoedo Shizumazu Saredo Naki Mo Sezu]
“people are fully satisfied if they and their Loved ones make it to Heaven!!! Imagine if God the father would have thought this way????”
“People are fundamentally good. But conditions deteriorate them.”
“People are funny -- they are able to project personality onto anything. I remember as a kid I spent a $ 5 bill once and felt so bad because the other $ 5 bill was now going to be lonely without all the other bills I had in my wallet, you just invest these dead things with life and that is our tendency as people. So animation takes advantage of that, grabs on to it, and runs with it.”
“People are funny about money.”
“People are funny. I don't get people like I don't get most things. I get myself, but not them. You would've thought that because I was a person if I got myself, I would get them. But nobody seems to get each other, and everybody seems to get me even less.”
Source: The Society In Opposition To Everything
“People are funny in like young adulthood, just like how people's musical tastes are cool, but it changes very rapidly. In five or ten years, I'll probably still be confident about what's funny but it probably won't be funny anymore.”
“People are funny. The longer you are around them, the more you start to realize that everyone makes the same motions over and over again.”
Source: My Heart and Other Black Holes
“People are funny. The longer you are around them, the more you start to realize that everyone makes the same motions over and over again. We all want to believe that every day is different, that every day we change, but really, it seems that certain things are coded into us from the very beginning”
Source: My Heart and Other Black Holes
“People are funny. They often don't mean to be, and that's what makes it even more endearing.”
“People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. —Mrs. Miracle”
Source: Call Me Mrs. Miracle: The Christmas Basket
“People are funny. When they are young, they will spend their health to get wealth. Later, they will gladly pay all they have trying to get their health back.”
“People are generally badly advised when they're starting out in the creative field.”
“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.”
Source: Thoughts
“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.”
Source: Pensées
“People are generally good but easily corrupted.”
“People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.”
“People are generally opposed to things they know nothing about.”
“People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.”
“People are generally resistant to teaching and training because it requires effort. This clashes with the natural wiring of human adults: We are fundamentally lazy.”
“People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around deep down in the rabbit's fur!)”
Source: Sophie’s World
“People are generous until you outgrow your place in their eyes. After that, kindness becomes envy, and envy turns hostile.”
Source: The Uncharted Mind
“People are getting attention for doing nothing, for behaving poorly, for abusing themselves in public and being abused, exploiting themselves. I find it vulgar and I find it awful.”
“People are getting cynical about the news. It doesn't seem like there's one place to watch where you get the straight dope. You watch the channel that proves your point.”
“People are getting record deals and they can barely sing. We have these new terms for artists that can dance, but they can't sing.”
“People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.”
Source: Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies
“People are getting tired of being constantly on edge. Maybe that means they do let down their guard or that they're complacent. What does it take to shake that? A 5% correction? A 10% one? Those kinds of declines are unfortunately something you put up with.”
“People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it's totally dysfunctional.”
“People are getting very tired of the Yell, Tell, Sell.
Consider honoring the audiences you would like to grow with patient and authentic engagement instead of the daily and hourly attacks of ego, hype, templated content and pushy sales tactics.”
“People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant.”