P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People are moved by my story, but they're only moved by my story because of what I do on the court.”
“People are moving faster - you can see that in the streets. Partly that's because of the electronic devices, which encourage this.”
“People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.”
“People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.”
“People are much like those stars up there. Some burn faintly for millions of years, barely visible to us on earth. They're there, but you'd hardly know it. They blend in, like a speck on a canvas. But others blaze with such intensity, they light up the sky. You can't help but notice them, marvel at them. Those are the ones that never last long. They can't. They use up all their energy quickly”
Source: The Last Camellia: A Novel
“People are much more dangerous than anything your mind can make up while you're sleeping."
"Like people you can't trust?"
"Yes," he answered and his voice was quieter. "They're the most dangerous."
"How can you tell who they are?" I asked.
"That's easy," he said, inhaling slowly from his cigarette. "They're the people who are the hardest to stay away from.”
Source: The God of Animals
“People are much more fascinated by your interests than they are by your opinions.”
Source: That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm
“People are much more important than superficial environments.”
“People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.”
“People are much more interesting than people realise.”
“People are much more likely to act on their self-percepts of efficacy inferred from many sources of information rather than rely primarily on visceral cues. This is not surprising because self knowledge based on information about one's coping skills, past accomplishments, and social comparison is considerably more indicative of capability than the indefinite stirrings of the viscera”
Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory
“People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking, than think their way into a new way of acting.”
Source: Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business
“People are much more likely to be interested in things they can't have, so you may be able to persuade people to vote by questioning whether that right will always exist.”
Source: The Secret of Greatness
“People are much more likely to trust a leader if they know he is compassionate and forgiving of mistakes.”
“People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.”
Source: Laurie Simmons: the music of regret
“People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.”
“People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.”
“People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out.”
“People are my agenda. Following that, nothing follows that.”
“People are my almighty, Oneness is my religion, Division is degradation, Unification is illumination.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“People are my greatest resource.”
“People are my most important asset. Faith in the supreme being, trust, credibility and performance are the things that have brought me to the top.”
“People are my religion/Because I believe in them.”
“People are mysterious, even to themselves.”
Source: The Sadness of Antonioni
“People are mystified by it and so they kind of think, the acting community thinks they're gonna be replaced by CG characters and animators think they're gonna be replaced by performance capture (and) a lot of directors, particularly European directors, who have no experience of it.”
“People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.”
Source: The Night Circus
“People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.”
“People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to adopt their ideologies and their ways.”
“People are naturally drawn together – those who belong to each other. It’s a very instinctive thing. Such important decisions as who to let into our life and in what way we will let that person in are best made from a deep knowing in our heart. Many relationships seem irrational to other people. Sometimes, the depth of a relationship and what the people will do to remain together may seem incomprehensible. If we understand there is a certain belonging to each other then it helps to go with the flow of life. Sometimes, people come together for a short time as that is the design of that relationship. Sometimes, it’s a lifetime. Sometimes, it’s much longer than one life on Earth.”
Source: Love's Longing
“People are naturally inclined to be far more attuned to the blame game of social bargaining than they are to the nuances and the balance of the facts, whether historical or contemporary.”
Source: Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars
“People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.”
“People are negative no matter what you do.”
“People are never able to outperform their self-image.”
Source: The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential
“People are never as they seem
The universe taught me that”
“People are never free of trying to be content.”
“People are never going to act exactly like we want them to. So if we stop expecting things from others, we’ll find peace in our hearts that will last a lifetime.”
Source: The Writings of Ron Baratono
“People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress.”
“People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.”
“People are never perfect, but love can be.”
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.”
“People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapableof making the slightes effort in that direction.”
“People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.”
Source: The Winner Stands Alone
“People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.”
Source: The Prague Cemetery
“People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.”
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
“People are never told what to think; the are quietly trained never to question what they have been told.”
“People are never too young or too old to look for human connection.”
“People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.”
“People are nice to me because of how I like, and part of me likes that, but part of me feels guilty because I haven't done anything to deserve it.”
Source: Stories of Your Life and Others
“People are no different from flowers. If you water them, they flourish. If you are not nice to them, they shrivel up”
“People are no longer afraid of him.The spirit and the time are with him. (Il ne fait plus peur. L'esprit et le temps sont avec lui.)”
Source: Les Contes de la nuit