P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People aren't always what you want them to be”
Source: Rebel Angels
“People aren't angels woven of light, but neither are they beasts to be driven into stalls.”
“People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.”
Source: The Abolition of Work and Other Essays
“People aren't blind. They know - they want to have a country where people who are coming in are known to our authorities, those who are in charge of this.”
“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. And the people you know. Valentine was Hodge's friend, and I don't think Hodge really had anyone else in his life to challenge him or make him be a better person. If I'd had that life, I don't know how I would have turned out. But I didn't. I have my family. And I have you.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“People aren't born racist.”
“People aren't born strong. people grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations learning not to run from them.”
“People aren't born with kindness, it grows with them.”
“People aren't buying blindly anymore, they want transparency. They want to know informed about where their clothes were made. I think that's why we have a loyal clientele.”
“People aren't comfortable thinking of women as people. Like we're not people, we're women, and that means something completely different, especially when you have power.”
“People aren't defined by their relationships. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.”
“People aren't doing whodunits anymore.”
“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
“People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?”
Source: Plays Four
“People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.”
“People aren't for hitting.”
“People aren't going into gay bars in Orlando and saying, "Jesus Christ!" They're not going into the Charlie Hebdo, the 85-year-old priest who was beheaded on his alter, [the assailant wasn't] yelling Jesus Christ.”
“People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.”
“People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.”
“People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which.”
“People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.”
“People aren't happy unless they buy stuff, and that's because we have become this industrialized nation.”
“People aren't hiring just a picture, they're hiring someone they can work with. That plays a big role .”
“People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.”
“People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.”
Source: The art of landscape painting
“People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.”
“People aren't interested in paying $10 or $12 to go to the movies and to be lectured to politically. I'm not either. So I don't try to make those kinds of films.”
“People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.”
“People aren't interested in you. They're interested in themselves”
“People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.”
“People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.”
“People aren't looking at how they're doing, but rather at how their neighbors are doing and at their own place in society.”
“People aren't meant to be perfect. We're all imperfect people looking for perfect moments to share with other imperfect people.”
“People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you”
Source: Midnight Cactus
“People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.”
“People aren't problems to be fixed. People are people, for us to walk alongside and journey with and help pick up the pieces with and, when they drop them again, to get back down and help them pick them up again. And that's real love - without condition and without expectation.”
“People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.”
“People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.”
Source: Firefall
“People aren't really afraid of my views. They are just afraid of the word 'nationalism.'”
“People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.”
“People aren't really looking at the result when taking a picture on an iPhone. And they don't print it. So to me, it's almost not a photograph. It's like looking in the mirror. It's a tool I don't relate to at all.”
“People aren't really paying attention when they're listening to your record, so unless you're shouting exactly what you want them to hear, they don't pay attention.”
“People aren't really poor until they start using water on their corn flakes.”
“People aren't social. They're tribal. Race doesn't exist, but tribes are real.”
“People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.”
“People aren't stupid. People wanna see good movies, especially comedies. Those by the books comedies, I don't get it. Who likes those? Nobody likes those.”
“People aren't stupid. They saw what was happening at the Cologne central station. A lawless space was created in the middle of a city of over a million. That has to be addressed and it has to be done so in a sober-minded way.”
“People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea goes away. Somebody catches up with it. It's not about a widget.”
“People aren't things to be molded; they are lives to be unfolded. And that's what true leaders do. They unfold the lives of others and help them reach their God-given potential.”