P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better.”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation
“People are in denial all the time, hiding things. If I tell you a racist or dirty joke and you laugh, you're telling me something about yourself, which you don't want to reveal. Accessing that hidden side is what good acting is all about. And there are only a handful of people in the entire United States who interest me as actors, who surprise me. Even people who write about it, don't know anything about good performance. At least when you work at General Motors, you know something about cars.”
“People are in one of two states in a relationship,” Gottman went on. “The first is what I call positive sentiment override, where positive emotion overrides irritability. It’s like a buffer. Their spouse will do something bad, and they’ll say, ‘Oh, he’s just in a crummy mood.’ Or they can be in negative sentiment override, so that even a relatively neutral thing that a partner says gets perceived as negative.”
Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird's eye view and they don't create a systematic plan.”
“People are in the habit of classifying life’s activities into those which are mundane and those which are religious. Remember, though, only those things done for the sake of Allah are the ‘religious’ things. Everything that is done for other than Allah – however ‘religious’ it may seem – is a worldly act… If he earns thousands of pounds to support his family and to spend for the cause of Allah, seeking only Allah’s pleasure, it is a highly spiritual act.”
“People are in your life for a reason, others are there for a season and it's important to realize when those seasons are over.”
“People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype”
“People are increasingly becoming disappointed and disillusioned with politics and business, and especially with the market economy. They are meeting the physical needs of human beings, maybe. They are providing food. But not good and healthy food.”
“People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because it changes nothing.”
“People are increasingly concerned about unemployment, but Republicans have nothing to offer them.”
“People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes are used to bail out governments on the other side of the continent.”
“People are increasingly using the Internet for easy price comparisons. Also, the reliability of delivery of a product bought over the Internet has increased.”
“People are incredibly literal sometimes in how they view you. You have dark hair and pale skin? You must be brooding. The second you dye your hair blond and get a spray tan, people treat you as if you're a bit stupider and happier.”
“People are incredibly rude about it sometimes. Like "What? You're married?" Strange reaction to have. Proves what people's ideas about marriage are. "We're having a baby." "What?" As if it's the end of the world. Of course, it's the start of a brilliant world.”
“People are inexterminable - like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices - that's us.”
“People are infinitely more interesting than characters that I come up with. Because the characters I come up with are basically combinations of people I've met. Combinations. You select certain details, that's all.”
“People are influenced by what we are, what we radiate. This has greater appeal than what we say.”
“People are influenced most by those they trust, admire and believe care for them.”
“People are inherently dignified, and they are only made undignified if they are placed in situations that are demeaning.”
Source: Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life
“People are inherently good. Our souls are magnificent and capable of extraordinary performance.”
Source: The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life
“People are inherently imperfect - we like to say that humans are mostly a collection of intermittent bugs. But before you can understand the bugs in your coworkers, you need to understand the bugs in yourself. We’re going to ask you to think about your own reactions, behaviors, and attitudes - and in return, we hope you gain some real insight into how to become a more efficient and successful software engineer who spends less energy dealing with people-related problems and more time writing great code.”
Source: Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
“People are inherently wary and fearful. What is a person more afraid of, the paucity of their dreams or the satanic magnitude of their nightmares? Poetic inventions containing elements of truth comprise all of our nighttime dreams and ephemeral daydreams.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“People are innocent till proven otherwise. All people are.”
“People are inspired by stories,
And stories are inspired by people
And that’s my favourite cycle…”
Source: Orenda - flash fiction based in modern India
“People are inspired to do remarkable things to find and be with the one they love.”
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“People are instinctively drawn to Jesus certain that he understands suffering, their particular suffering, that he sees it in their eyes even before they speak. God's chosen are the suffering ones, whose inner luminescence is emphasized by the fragility of its container.”
Source: What Jesus Meant
“People are intended to resist symbolic interpretation, as well. At times, they break through - there are little hints of 'this song is about this,' but if you were to come here and be like, 'well, I've got the lyrics right here, let's go through 'em,' that wouldn't really work!”
“People are interested by talent. God is impressed by character”
“People are interested if you tell stories well and relevantly.”
“People are interested in authentic long-term, socialist goals, which is not what is usually called socialism. They should be thinking through carefully how the projected society should work, but not in extensive detail because a lot of things just have to be learned by experiment and we don't know enough to plan societies in detail by any means. But, general guidelines could be worked out and many of the specific problems can be discussed. That should just be part of people's popular consciousness. That's how a transition to socialism could take place.”
“People are interested in certain ideas, in certain periods, and then that moves, and okay, now people are more interested in studying this, and there is no perfect balance, and how would you know what the perfect balance is? I mean, what does it mean to have too many Beethoven chairs and too few Stravinsky chairs? I mean, that's kind of a value judgment that isn't really based on humility. We don't know what the optimum number is, so let people figure this out on their own. People are more interested in Beethoven than Stravinsky? Great! Why would that bother me?”
“People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.”
“People are interested in examining the way we consume narratives.”
“People are interested in family traditions, and I think a lot of families can benefit from some of the ways that my parents dealt with the challenges of raising four kids.”
“People are interested in other people. But your unconscious is not. Or only as they might directly affect you. It's been hired to do a very specific job. It never sleeps. It's more faithful than God.”
Source: Stella Maris
“People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.”
“People are interested in relevant stories. In big events. But I'm not interested in big things; I'm interested in the smaller details of life.”
“People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, and so I try to find a way to get them interested.”
“People are intimately bound up with the diversity of life on Earth.”
“people are intimidated by people they cannot imitate.”
“People are intimidated when they first meet me, but it doesn't take them long to realise I'm just an average person.”
“People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.”
“People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.”
“People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually reply with a question like, “Well, are you a Republican or an American?” The two words serve different concepts and are not mutually exclusive. Agnosticism addresses knowledge; atheism addresses belief. The agnostic says, “I don't have a knowledge that God exists.” The atheist says, “I don't have a belief that God exists.” You can say both things at the same time. Some agnostics are atheistic and some are theistic.”
Source: Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
“People are irrational - and predictably so.”
“People are irrational. What I want to do is let's take the irrational aspects out of it and let's just break this down. And you and I, let's go and see if we can't master this thing, a few steps at a time without giving up your day job, without having to give up your whole life.”
“People are irrelevant. They're as irrelevant as many other prominent leftists are.”
“People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.”
Source: Casino Royale
“People are jackals, always willing to feed off someone else's kill.”
Source: Tortall and Other Lands: A Collection of Tales
“People are judged continuously everywhere on the most intimate level by the prices on their head. Most of them accept the judgment. It's very hard to have self-respect, or to maintain a state of creativity under these conditions.”