P Quotes
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“People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.”
Source: Unfolding Meaning: A Weekend of Dialogue with David Bohm
“People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.”
Source: The province of the heart
“People are not "things" to be manipulated, labeled, boxed, bought, and sold. Above all else, they are not "human resources." They are entire human beings, containing the whole of the evolving universe, limitless until we start limiting them. We must examine the concept of leading and following with new eyes. We must examine the concept of superior and subordinate with increasing skepticism. We must examine the concept of management and labor with new beliefs. And we must examine the nature of organizations that demand such distinctions with an entirely different consciousness.”
Source: Birth of the Chaordic Age
“People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.”
“People are not afraid to be very direct with police. And I think that's part of the problem is that people are angry at the cops and then the cops are stressed out and they, you know, pay it backwards, so to speak.”
“People are not alone in making art. Even the smallest animals can create things of beauty. Even the smallest animals have power and can help set things right in the world. Beautiful things are being made all the time and can still work great wonders. A tiny web of silk, a small jar of earth, can hold a glowing ember of the sun to help light the world.”
“People are not always good ambassadors for God. But Hulda held firm. To her last breath, she praised him. And I saw in her what I had never seen in empty religious observance. I saw the joy that comes from the presence of God."
Roxannah crossed her arms over her belly. "Even when she was dying?"
"Even as she lay dying. One night, toward the end, as I sat by her bed, weeping, she laid her hand on my head. 'Adin, you must be like Moses,' she said. I stopped my sniveling and stared at her in shock. She had not spoken for several days by then. 'Moses?' I stammered."
Roxannah gave him a puzzled look.
"He is our greatest prophet," Aden explained. "Hulda said, 'Remember how God spoke to Moses mouth to mouth? You must learn to speak to him like that.'"
"What does that mean?"
"In our language, speaking mouth to mouth is an expression of closeness. It means you are on intimate terms with someone. Friends who share their hearts openly. God spoke to Moses mouth to mouth. With the familiarity of a friend. Hulda wanted me to understand that true faith leads to that kind of friendship with God.”
Source: The Queen's Cook
“People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.”
Source: The Captive / The Fugitive
“People are not angry, they just want to be heard.”
“People are not as beautiful as they look or as they talk. They are only as beautiful as they love, as they care, as they share.”
“People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them.”
Source: Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back
“People are not being reached in the context of the body of Christ--they're like newborn babies being left on a doorstep somewhere to feed and care for themselves.”
Source: Becoming Orthodox: A Journey to the Ancient Christian Faith
“People are not born bastards. They have to work at it.”
“People are not born hating themselves. It's something that comes with time, with careful conditioning and spiteful words, with fingernails dug into your arm until you bleed. It's a special sort of skill, to hurt someone so badly that they don't love themselves anymore.”
“People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them.”
“People are not born with any entirety. With the time we take to achieve it. For it requires concentration and willpower.”
“People are not broken to be healed,
They just need to be understood and to understand.”
“People are not cactuses, they need plenty of water and, when talking about friendship, the water is our time.”
“People are not controlled by some internal calculator that crudely motivates them to maximize their reproductive success. Instead, people form deep, lifelong emotional attachments and experience loves and hates that shape their lives. They have religious beliefs that guide their behavior, and they have idiosyncratic goals and ambitions. They have networks of friends and relatives.”
Source: Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
“People are not defined by Power, but by how they rise and inspire.”
Source: Ordinary
“People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.”
“People are not doing well financially. I mean, wages are down from 2000. They're down from 2007. 2000 - down. Not going - they're below what they were in 2000. People are hurting. Things aren't going well for them.”
“People are not dying of lack of money but of lack of esteem and awareness. ("Kein Schwein ruft mich an")”
“People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.”
Source: Letters of Ayn Rand
“People are not enjoying life because they're trying to be something or brand themselves.”
“People are not even going to have time to listen to radio in their cars because they are going to be talking on their phones or twittering, or BBM'ing. So I feel like the only time people are going to hear music is when your phone rings, so that's the whole market I'm going after.”
“People are not evil; they are schlemiels.”
“People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings.”
“People are not fully defined by either the best or the worst of their actions”
Source: The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust
“People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.”
“People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.”
“People are not going to give up marriage. But we can try to make it more fair. We can try to change that institution and make it more equal.”
“People are not going to give you a vision, but God can.”
“People are not going to like everything.”
“People are not going to reelect Barack Obama. But will the new president govern as a real conservative? We're going to have to apply the heat to make sure.”
“People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.”
“People are not good or evil. They are good AND evil. That does not make abuse any less harmful, or love any less real. In order to heal, we must understand that BOTH love and abuse can genuinely be present in a relationship, and love does not remove the need to take action when harmful behavior is present.”
“people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“People are not here to meet your expectations.”
Source: LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING
“People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.”
“People are not homeless if they're sleeping in the streets of their own hometowns.”
“People are not hooked on YouTube, Twitter or Facebook but on each other. Tools and services come and go; what is constant is our human urge to share.”
Source: Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why It Matters
“People are not hungry because we dont produce enough. People are hungry for political reasons.”
“People are not hungry just for bread, they are hungry for love.”
“People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.”
“People are not in good shape to where they have to question their own belief system because of a book or a story somebody wrote, or a SLAYER song.”
“People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.”
Source: How to win friends & influence people
“People are not interested in your product or your business; they are interested in solving their own problems.”
“People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings.”
“People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.”