P Quotes
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“People are often good, mostly, she said.
You just have to dig a little deeper sometimes.
For every being that causes carnage on this world, there is someone out there trying to fix it.
Maybe that in itself is clarity, all i know is you cant fix the world by becoming like it.”
“People are often irrational. They make stupid decisions for the sake of unquestioned beliefs, particularly where religion is concerned.”
Source: Strange Buildings
“People are often led to causes and often become committed to great ideas through persons who personify those ideas. They have to find the embodiment of the idea in flesh and blood in order to commit themselves to it.”
“People are often most proud of precisely those things of which they should most be ashamed.”
“People are often punished by the realization of their dreams!”
“People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.”
“People are often shy to acknowledge that they are Bengalis. They somehow take pride in saying that they cannot speak or read the language.”
“People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why.”
Source: I Shall Wear Midnight: (Discworld Novel 38)
“People are often surprised that I almost always have my own coach: “Wait, you are a coach. Why do you need a coach?” Well, dentists need dentists, right? My coaches have helped me navigate new jobs, challenging coworkers, and big transitions because of the questions they ask me.”
Source: Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
“People are often surprised to hear that Romani is in fact a fully fledged language just like any other, that it has its origins in India, that it is related to Sanskrit, an ancient language associated with Indian scholarship and religion, and that it has been preserved by the Romani populations through oral traditions and in a variety of dialects for many centuries.”
Source: I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies
“People are often talking when they are not supposed to be.”
“People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)
“People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms.”
Source: The Christ-Centred Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you. Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight. Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God. It was never between you and them anyway.”
“People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.”
“People are often very frightened of their anger. They feel it will cause them to do something harmful. If you have this fear, create a safe situation where you can express your anger, alone or with a trusted therapist or friend. Allow yourself to talk angrily, shout, hit pillows, whatever you feel like. Once you've done this in a safe environment, you will have released some of the charge, and you can look underneath the anger to find what you need to do to take better care of yourself. Like any emotion, anger is a valuable tool, teaching us who we are and how we feel.”
“People are only 'disappointing' when one makes a wrong diagnosis.”
“People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only ones that do it for fun. That's why I don't know about Darwinism. Supposedly evolution and natural selection are all about survival, but we haven't gotten smarter over the years, only more dangerous.”
“People are only concerned about the next party, meeting up for casual sex, finding a job as a Web page designer, or getting a new apartment.”
“People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.”
“People are only invincible in books,” said Cordelia.
“I think you will find most of the time, not even then,” said Tessa. “But at least we can always pick up a book and read it anew. Stories offer a thousand fresh starts.”
“People are only mean when they are threatened.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does...And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.”
“People are only mean when they're threatened… and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.”
“People are only rational on the surface.”
Source: Christine
“People are only what they think of themselves.”
“People are only what we believe them to be.”
“People are organic computers.”
Source: Indigo Diaries: A Series of Novels
“People are our greatest asset .”
“People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can't count on to your audience to be there week in and week out.”
“People are out there looking for jobs and realizing that they have to look within to do and create what the new and next thing will be. They can't rely anymore on what was usually given to them.”
“People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.”
“People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.”
“People are panicking about climate change in large part because the media and environmental campaigners tell us to, because politicians overhype the likely effects, and because scientific research is often communicated without crucial context…: humans adapt to their changing earth. They have for millenia…
“We don’t just use up the iron or gas that is there and then give up. We get better at finding more, at lower cost, in effect allowing humanity access to ever more and ever cheaper resources…
“Once the human propensity for adaptation is taken into account, the numbers on climate change start looking a lot less scary. And adaptation should ALWAYS be factored into any climate change study, because humans are ALWAYS adapting.” -p. 19, 29, 35”
“People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature and sunshine and so on...like 'California Girls' which was a hymn to youth.”
“People are people, and people obviously love their wars.”
Source: Slavic Ancient Origins: Stories Of People & Civilization
“People are people, low or high.”
Source: Lord of Chaos
“People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.”
“People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.”
“People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others.”
“People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.”
“People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.”
Source: The Speed of Dark: A Novel
“People are people, whatever age they're living in. The circumstances may have changed - we go to war with planes instead of chariots - but experiences of grief, longing, rage and love remain the same.”
“People are people. All that celebrity tagging doesn't bother me at all.”
“People are people. Don't be afraid of them.”
“People are people. We'll always find a way to mess up, doesn't matter who's in charge.”
Source: Naughts & Crosses
“People are perfectly capable of giving love even if they feel less confident about themselves.”
Source: Psychology Of Love, Money, & Life
“People are perfectly capable of ruining their own lives by very themselves without taking any wrong guidance from outside!”
“People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.”