P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People are worried that machines will take over the world and then they’ll have no voice any more. Well - what voice do you have today, despite having a voice! You are already puppets to your political overlords. You don’t think for yourself, you don’t feel for yourself, you don’t behave for yourself - heck, that’s why you have election in the first place - not so you could choose a leader, but so you don’t have to take any responsibility.
And you are still worried about machines taking over your lives! Your lives are already taken over, not by mechanical deities but by organic sectarian deities born of the womb of your own indifference. So forget about a fictitious future which may or may not happen and pay attention to the real threat that haunts the society in the present - namely, your own indifference.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“People are worried that their inner voice will tell them to leave their husbands or wives - or their jobs. Well, if that's really what your inner guidance is saying, then that is for your highest good and for your spouse's or partner's. There is a plan for everyone.”
“People are worried where additional supply will come from.”
“People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies. They are used to getting things through the eye and the ear. In a small way, literature goes on being written, but few people like it. Once it's bureaucratized by the schoolteachers, the game's up.”
“People are wounds. They cut and they hurt and they bleed. Some hurt for a little while and go away. Some don’t stop hurting until you make them.”
Source: Seven Blades in Black
“People are writing shorter jokes. The style I've started with was almost trying to keep jokes under 140 characters before Twitter.”
“People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.”
“People are wrong when they say that everything should be more diverse, even, say, rock bands. It's an error, an overgeneralization.”
“People are wrong when they tell you that Conrad was on the side of Africans because his story showed great compassion towards them. Africans are not really served by his compassion, whatever it means; they ask for one thing alone – to be seen for what they are: human beings. Conrad pulls back from granting them this favour in Heart of Darkness.”
Source: Africa's Tarnished Name
“People are yearning to be asked to use the full measure of their potential for something they care about.”
“People: Are you a virgin?
Me: I am a born virgin”
“People are your most valuable asset. Only people can be made to appreciate in value.”
“People are your responsibility and character is the hidden powers that cause the miracle people”
Source: Discovering Yourself
“People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.”
“People are, by and large, quite poor at judging correct absolute values but are astute about determining relative values. Psychologists call this coherent arbitrariness, which suggests that individuals are coherent when they compare prices on a relative basis but arbitrary when those prices are considered versus fundamental value.”
“People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.”
“People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.”
Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers
“People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century.”
“People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America.”
“People are, you know, a little - they're still uncertain, and they're uncertain both because they don't know what might come next in terms of regulations, but they're also uncertain because of changes in a global economy that we're only beginning to take hold of.”
“People aren't abandoning you just because they go.”
Source: Yolk
“People aren’t all good or all bad. You can learn
from mistakes. Or you can keep making them. You can always become a better person.”
Source: It Sounded Better in My Head
“People aren’t always what you want them to be. Sometimes they disappoint you or let you down, but you have to give them a chance first. You can’t just meet someone and expect them to be everything you’re looking for and then be angry when they’re not every hope and aspiration you projected onto them. It’s foolish to believe that someone will be what you imagine them to be. And sometimes, when you give them a chance, they turn out to be better than you imagined. Different, but better.”
Source: Sacré Noir
“People aren’t books. You can’t mark them, underline them, and use the exact quotes that you need for your own purpose. You read them from cover to cover and wonder what you’re left with at the end.”
Source: Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada
“People aren’t born evil.”
Source: In Limbo
“People aren't born good or bad. It's the way you live your life that matters and how many people you inspire and empower after you're gone.”
Source: Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
“People aren’t born good or bad. Maybe they’re born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters.”
Source: City of Glass
“People aren't born sad; we make them that way.”
“People aren't born social. Sure it comes easier to some people but most people, like you, need to work at it. Some more than others. You're just inexperienced.”
Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 1
“People aren’t broken. They’re just interestingly wired.”
“People aren't crazy, they’re just reacting normally to an abnormally crazy world.”
Source: Now and at the Hour of Our Death
“People aren’t fooled by complex lies—they’re seduced by polished illusions. Status dulls discernment, and hierarchy makes deception feel like truth.”
Source: SOLAR RAIN
“People aren’t giving you money to fund programs. They’re donating to see results.”
Source: Magnetic Nonprofit: Attract and Retain Donors, Volunteers, and Staff to Increase Nonprofit Fundraising
“People aren't good at processing important things when they're naked”
Source: Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps
“People aren't ignoring you. They are busy with their lives. And the way to stop feeling ignored is to get busy with yours.”
“People aren't just ants rushing around over a crust of bread. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundreds of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with. One word can give someone the strength they needed at that moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburst or word could be the tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge into destruction.”
Source: Infamous
“People aren't like books. You can't set them on a shelf and expect them to stay there.”
“People aren’t like that, Silt, not really. We’re not always cheerful and funny. We’ve sadness and anxiety, and all these other bitter things wrapped up inside, too, and that’s what makes the sweetness all the sweeter.”
“People aren't like that. They aren't content to just live simple lives that don't hurt anyone. There's always this kind of undercurrent in people driving them forward to either good things or really bent, gnarled things. It's not that they just wake up one day and decide to start a fight. This kind of thinking is just building up in them all the time, like the tick of a clock, like the beat of a heart, it's the rhythm they think their thoughts to. Selflessness, courage, honor - these things are strange and unintelligible to them as evil and cruelty are to you.”
“People aren't nice, people aren't nice, you should know that by now.”
Source: Girl in Pieces
“People aren't perfect, Sloane. Once you understand that, it makes accepting their shortcomings and mistakes a little easier.”
Source: A Legend in the Baking
“People aren't pissed just to be pissed. They're mad because a tiny group of crooks on Wall Street built themselves beach houses in the Hamptons through a crude fraud scheme that decimated their retirement funds, caused property values in their neighborhoods to collapse and caused over four million people to be put in foreclosure.”
“People aren’t rational. But when it comes to our most important communications, we tend to try and convince each other with rational argument. Attempting to win trust with arguments is hard work, because trust is a feeling.”
Source: Business Storytelling from Hype to Hack: How Do Stories Work? Unlock the Software of the Mind
“People aren't reading self-published authors because people can't even get past the poor quality of the samples. They aren't reading books they don't want to read.”
“People aren’t scared of being alone in the dark, boy. They're scared of not being alone in the dark.”
Source: Hotel Miramar: An Old Castle Novel
“People aren’t seeking more content; they want connection.”
Source: Notes from the Brand Stand: Thoughts on Emotional Branding from Someone Who Has Fought for Consumer Attention and Won
“People aren't smart when it comes to the dead.”
Source: The Unbound
“People aren't afraid of failure, they just don't know how to succeed. We are each responsible for our own success (or failure). Winning at what you do is no exception. To ensure a win, you must take a proactive approach. Prevention of failure is an important part of that process.”
“People aren't against you; they are for themselves. The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. He who conquers others is strong, he who conquers himself is mighty.”
“People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.”