P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.”
Source: Never Leave Me
“People are not losing their religious needs, but they are going to three places to get their needs met. One is to conservative churches, which, for all their social benightedness, nevertheless do present their congregations with a different view of reality. Second, they are going to Asian religions. Third, they are going to the New Age, which when I'm feeling cynical I refer to as "New Age frivolity," because some of it is rather flaky.”
“People are not machines, but in all situations where they are given the opportunity, they will act like machines.”
“People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them.”
“People are not on a truth quest; they are on a happiness quest. They will continue to attend your church - even if they don't share your beliefs - as long as they find the content engaging and helpful.”
“People are not only talking glibly about War but working for it. The universe is a huge munitions factory. Fear and spiritual negation keep that factory always at work piling up armaments ready for use at any moment. Humanity spends £200 every minute on armaments, and that in what is supposed to be a period of Peace!”
Source: What Is the Oxford Group?
“People are not patient anymore.”
“People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.”
“People are not prepared or able to rejoice in suffering unless they experience a massive biblical revolution of how they think and feel about the meaning of life. Human nature and American culture make it impossible to rejoice in suffering. This is a miracle in the human soul wrought by God through His Word.”
“People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.”
“People are not rain or snow or autumn leaves; they do not look beautiful when they fall.”
“People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.”
“People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward”
“People are not running to build coal facilities because of the price of natural gas, but we do see them being constructed, and there is an interest in fuel diversity, so we took the exercise pretty seriously.”
“People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education.”
Source: Conversations with Robertson Davies
“People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.”
Source: Plays
“People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.”
Source: Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life
“People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.”
“People are not supposed to be at the mercy of law, law is supposed to be at the mercy of people.”
Source: Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law
“People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly.”
Source: The Book of Tea
“People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.”
“People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.”
“People are not the same - to compensate for this natural inequality, we have to compensate for the balance”
Source: Crooked House
“People are not the way they are primarily in order to annoy me.”
“People are not their behaviors.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“People are not theirs thoughts, they think they are, and it brings them all kinds of sadness.”
“People are not things, you cannot have ownership.”
“People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnat’s eye all the souls of the children of men that are driven into heaven by preaching hell-fire.”
Source: Journal of Discourses
“People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?”
“People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them.”
Source: Remarks on an Anonymous Tract, Entitled An Answer to Dr. Mayhew's Observations on the Charter and Conduct of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts: Being a Second Defence of the Said Observations. By Jonathan Mayhew, D.D. Pastor of the West-Church in Boston
“People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals.”
“People are not what they seem to be according to their looks.”
“People are not who they say but rather who their actions reveal them to be....Be smart about it. Don't fall for the bullshit.”
“People are not your most important asset....the right people are.”
“People are not your stepping stones, they're not your means to an end. They are living, breathing, beautiful individuals created in an image that is absolutely unfathomable by any lens, image processor or software.”
“People are now layering all kinds of different things together. Eighteenth century, 19th century, rustic, modern. Three dimensional printed pieces, very high end technological pieces, but mixed with local artisan stuff.”
“People are now looking at the world in terms of axis of evil and evil-doers and by logical extension good-doers, and that's a very polarised look at good and bad people. Reality is much more complex than that and people can be good and evil on the very same day.”
“People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.”
Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
“People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available.”
“People are obsessed with spectacle. We live in the society of the spectacle. People are addicted to the spectacular. They want bigger and better spectacles. They need more and more to keep them stimulated. They crave entertainment. They crave more powerful simulations, more breathtaking special effects, more everything. No one wants POR – plain old reality. Simulation – hyperreality – the simulacrum – these are what the people desire. We all live in Disneyland now – an utter fantasy world. Our true God is Mickey Mouse. At least he’s a lot nicer than Yahweh.”
Source: Hypersex
“People are obsessed with what they don't allow themselves to have, and then they become controlled by it. Forbidden fruit is everyone's main meal.”
Source: A Room Called Earth
“People are obsessed. There's an incredibly large group of people that spend most of their time considering other people's lives. It's strange to me.”
“People are oceans. You cannot know them by their surface.”
Source: Worlds of You: Poetry & Prose
“People are of infinite complexity and you can spend a lifetime watching them without ever fully understanding them”
“People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.”
“People are offering competing visions of what happened in the past. And the justice system is willing to accept either of those competing visions and to impose consequences as a result. When you think of it that way, it's a little bit startling, because we want to believe that there is one truth and, therefore, one justice, whereas, if you have practiced law as long as I have, you realize that there is actually a range of acceptable outcomes.”
“People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set.”
“People are often daydreamers which is why when you see something strange on your way, you must thank to it because it liberates you from the world of dreams by waking you up! Welcome to the world of reality, welcome to this very moment we are in!”
“People are often enamored with my Super Bowl ring. But it's my wedding ring that I'm most proud of. And having a good marriage takes even more work than winning a Super Bowl.”
“People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.”
Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day