P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People are the most difficult thing in the world to change”
Source: Oh My Goth
“People are the most fascinating mysteries I've ever read.”
Source: Tori Amos: Piece by Piece
“People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.”
“People are the only animals that drink the milk of the mother of another species. All other animals stop drinking milk altogether after weaning. It is unnatural for a dog to nurse from a mother giraffe; it is just as unnatural for a human being to drink the milk of a cow.”
“People are the problem. Nature is your friend.”
Source: Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
“People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is fundamentally changed.”
“People are the reasons I stay indoors.”
“People are the root of the country.”
Source: Gift of the Fox
“People are the same all over the world, I imagine, people who react like that to their countries conspiracies: turning them into tales that are told, like children’s fables, and also into place in the memory or the imagination, a place where we go as tourists, to revive nostalgia or to try to find something we’ve lost.”
Source: The Shape of the Ruins
“People are the same wherever you go. And if they weren't, they wouldn't laugh at the same s**t.”
“People are the stocks into which we are to invest our time ... the best of all investments you can make is to help people come to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior. You can make a commitment right here and now ... I'm asking you today not to graduate but commence a new life for God every step of the way.”
“People are the story they tell themselves.”
“People are the truth of life,
Not some beliefs and biases.
People are the magic of my words,
People are the center of my poetries.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“People are the world's strangest creature.”
“People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn't matter.”
“People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.”
“People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is... a primary organizer of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator, a way of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback mechanism for how things are going, a measuring rod against which competence, effort, and achievement are judged as well as a special message system revealing how people really feel about each other and whether or not they can get along.”
“People are timid. They don't take chances. Naturally, they're bound. They are afraid of the light. They are afraid of their own power. In the land of willpower, anything is possible.”
“People are tired of being told that it's possible... It's time to show them how it can be possible. Leadership is demonstration.”
Source: Leaders' Ladder
“People are tired of just watching their TV set passively. They are playing interactive games today. They are on the Internet interacting. They want to be part of their TV set.”
“People are tired of just yelling at the TV set. They actually are going to turn out and vote.”
“People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin.... Today's youth are moved by other slogans...Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.”
“People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.”
“People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.”
“People are tired of the humiliation that they don't want to be perceived as weak within the international community. And they are, therefore, actually quite grateful to President Putin for reinstating some sense of national pride.”
“People are tired of the status quo. You see that in various movements in and out of our the Republicans party, but most candidates are offering hollow rhetoric, not specific solutions.”
“People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they are angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant bureaucrats, and public officials who think all of mankind's problems can be solved by throwing the taxpayers dollars at them.”
“People are tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low-wage countries, of billionaires not paying any federal income taxes and of not being able to afford a college education for their kids - all while the very rich become much richer.”
“People are too afraid of uptown. A lot of people will tell you, like, "Don't go to Harlem. You can never go there. 'Cause as soon as you get there, they kill you." That's what people think. As soon as you arrive in Harlem, someone just stabs you in the face right away. That's people's image of Harlem: just everyone standing around waiting for lost white people to kill all day. "Did you see any? I didn't either."”
“People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.”
Source: Nothing Matters, and Other Stories
“People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.”
“People are too complicated to have simple labels.”
Source: The Amber Spyglass
“People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.”
Source: Jungle of Cities: And Other Plays
“People are too hung up on winning. I can get off on a really good helmet throw.”
Source: The Little Red (Sox) Book: A Revisionist Red Sox History
“People are too keen to follow standard preconceptions of how organisations should work. All too often, we feel that we are unable to make changes and so hope that someone, somewhere in your organisation knows what we are doing and what the overall aim is.”
“People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.”
“People are too much sometimes. Friends, acquaintances, enemies, strangers. It doesn’t matter; they all crowd. Even if they’re all the way across the room, they crowd. I take a moment of silence and think: I am here. I am okay.”
Source: Eliza and Her Monsters
“People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.”
“people are too quick to give their hearts away, i mean, be fearless; run wild into their arms, but for goodness sake know your worth. A being of wisdom knows their heart is the breath of their existence and only a honorable love deserves to feel it at its purest form.”
“People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.”
“People are too worried a lot of times what other people in the audience are going to think about them, so they like to feign offense so other people don't think that they're inappropriate for laughing at something.”
“People are trading distance for dollars.”
“People are trained – brainwashed – to believe that material well-being stands for psychological well-being. If you have a house, a job, a car, lots of commodities, a partner and family then you ought to be happy. But where is the real you in all of that? Of course, psychological well-being, not material well-being, should be the benchmark. But we live in a materialist world thanks to economic materialism (predatory capitalism) and philosophical materialism (scientism). Science more or less denies that we have minds and free will, hence are just machines, while predatory capitalism treats us as material objects. Mind – the psyche, psychology – is exactly what is absent from the materialist hegemony, and that’s why the world is so anxious, depressed and alienated. It comes with the territory. It’s an inevitable aspect of materialism. Materialism shapes us as matter. Consumerism shapes us as consumers. The class system locks us into artificial class identities. In a world of commodities, we ourselves are commodified. All of our values start to revolve around objects, things, commodities, consumption, matter. The human has disappeared. We need to revalue all values in terms of idealism rather than materialism, and rationalism instead of empiricism.”
Source: The Irresistible Rise of Mediocre Man: The War On Excellence
“People are training for success when they should be training for failure.”
Source: Failing Forward
“People are transported to that space that Poe wanted to make available to us.”
“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”
“People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.”
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“People are trying so hard to become famous. Johnny Marbles, he tried to throw a pie in Rupert Murdoch's face. What do I gotta do, give Sumner Redstone a wedgie?”
“People are trying to build a society where they can talk across the aisle so to speak, and have civil discourse. At the same time we're trying to inform ourselves about what's really true so that we can make evidence based decisions that is better than superstition or rumor. But the fact is that people who use evidence based decision making have much better life outcomes, greater life satisfaction, they live longer, they make better personal and medical decisions, better financial decisions. But parallel to that is you can't reason somebody out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.”
“People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster.”