P Quotes
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“People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.”
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“People aren't universally heroic.”
“People aren't very good listeners, by nature. Part of being a good communicator is recognizing and understanding that and trying to make the complex simple. I try to capture a concept, an idea or a moment in a few words. If they remember it, job done.”
“People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.”
Source: Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series
“People aren’t interested in the truth, Dafar. They’re interested in what keeps them safe. They’re interested in being looked after. They’re interested in a tale being spun... Mighty men have moments of great despair that common people do not want to know about.”
“People aren’t photographing for history any more. It’s for immediate gratification. If you’re photographing to share an image, you’re not photographing to keep it.”
“People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.”
Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
“People argue between Pele or Maradona. Di Stéfano is the best, much more complete.”
“People argue themselves out of their pleasures”
“People around me are always an inspiration due to their love of the music and they help me to generate ideas for music. But it's really the passion and drive I have for my music that keeps me connected. I recorded my first song in the studio at 8 years old and I've taken it seriously since then. Making music is fun to me so I aim to translate those feelings into the music.”
“People around me called me an idol, so that's what I was.”
“People around me die. They drop like flies. I've gone through life leaving a trail of dead bodies behind me. My mother is dead, my guardian is dead, my aunt is dead—because I killed her, and when my real father finds me, he'll move heaven and earth to make me dead.”
“People around me never say anything. They just seem to want to hear what I have to say. That's why I do all the talking.”
“People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds.”
Source: Why People Don't Heal and How They Can
“People around the world are learning lies about South Africa and I am here in South Africa learning the truth about those people who are telling lies and misinformation about South Africa. I am learning who they are and what they are. They are deceitful, manipulative, toxic, con artists, liars, evil, racist, dishonest, and vile people with their money, riches, wealth, fame, businesses, and fame.”
“People around the world are learning lies about South Africa and I am here in South Africa learning the truth about those people who are telling lies and misinformation about South Africa. I am learning who they are and what they are. They are evil, racist, dishonest, and vile people With their money, riches, wealth, fame, businesses, and fame.”
“People around the world just want self-respect. They want to take care of themselves, they want to pay for their own bills, they want to take care of their families.”
“People around the world now complain about stressors everyday, and the word shows up throughout professional and lay literature. But in reality there is no such thing as a stressor. Why not? Because nothing has the inherent power to provoke stress.”
“People around the world often judge you more by the country you come from than by your character or how you conduct yourself. No one should be forced to feel afraid or ashamed to say where they are from because of being wrongly judged, shamed, stereotyped, violated, deported, banned, or humiliated. Do not vote for someone based on race, or because you have been lobbied or bribed. Make sure you vote for leaders who demonstrate merit, integrity, and competence to avoid being ashamed of your country because of your leaders.”
“People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience.”
“People around treat you better when you’re travelling with your wife. Maybe it’s easier for them to trust newly married people.”
“People around us change and circumstances change. We can often find ourselves struggling against those things.”
“People around you are quick to read your attitude of thought toward them. Inner thoughts and feelings are communicated in ways other than by the spoken word.”
Source: Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day
“People around you that you feel you're close to, are they really wishing you good things, you know?”
“People around you will teach a lot about life.
Some by their victories and others by their failures.”
“People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.”
Source: Mastery
“People arrived and there was eating, drinking, dancing and misunderstandings between all the couples, married and unmarried. Frank
Schwake wouldn’t talk to his wife, Jean. Jim Collins quarreled in a corner with his wife, Sheila. There was still a coolness between Alberta and me and between Brian and Joyce. Other couples were affected and there were islands of tension all over the apartment. The night would have been ruined except for the way we all united against an outside danger.”
Source: 'Tis
“People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.”
Source: The pilgrim hawk: a love story
“People as a rule were not happy, nor meant apparently to be happy, and the married state especially stood before her mind as a state of natural and inevitable discomfort - one in which there was always a more or less troublesome and unmanageable male to be fed, looked after, and put up with generally. That it possessed any counterbalancing advantages; that it could, even at the start, be, for a woman, a state of especial happiness, she simply did not, for a moment, believe . . . Her own private opinion was that all that was an invention got up by the men. They persuaded the women to believe there was something pleasant in it, and the silly creatures were fools enough to believe them.”
Source: Grania: The Story of an Island
“People as a whole are shamsters. Grasp it well. And be well. Then, knowing fully well so, covering your butt, go on in life as if they are not. This is the only way to save your butt. Of course, you can always go live elsewhere. Like the Everest.”
“People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.”
“People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.”
Source: Fair Game
“People as well as nations perish without scriptures. The scriptures are spiritual food for our spirit, which is just as important as physical food for our body.”
“People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, "In the movies, they do crazy stuff."”
“People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.”
“People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of my family still lives in Canada and I finished studies up there.”
“People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great; it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film.”
“People ask a lot about how I can be a believer in a culture that perhaps is counter cultural to what you believe in. I've come to the conclusion that I'm able to be in this culture and in this industry and fruitful because I don't look to my circumstances to determine what I believe to be true about God.”
“People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.”
Source: Handle with Care: A Novel
“People ask all the time what I learned in the camps. But the camps weren’t therapy. What do you think these places were? Universities? We didn’t go there to learn. One becomes very clear about these things. What are you asking for? Forgiveness for her? Or do you just want to feel better yourself? My advice, go to the theatre, if you want catharsis, please. Go to literature. Don't go to the camps. Nothing comes out of the camps. Nothing.”
Source: The Reader
“People ask all the time, "What are you thinking?" It's my least favorite question in the world. The last bastion of solace is my mind. It's an invasion.”
“People ask all the time, 'What would you be doing if you weren't Kid Rock?' It's simple: I'd be broke Kid Rock.”
“People ask, "Are you important enough for me to love you?" But they've got it all wrong. When you love someone, you make them important. And the same thing happens to you. You don't love them because they're important; they become important because you love them.”
“People ask could I have written the show I wrote in 1990 now, and I don't think I could. I think it's much easier to offend people nowadays. People have grown quite sensitive, I think.”
“People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.”
“People ask for this life, but they don't really understand what comes with it. People just see the outside and that looks good - big houses, cars, girls, but you never see how the person is feeling deep down inside. Me personally, being a man, I'm going to feel better displaying all of this and pouring my heart out on each record.”
“People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.”
“People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well. I can’t answer the real question. All I can tell them is, It’s easy.
And it is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it.…
…In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body at rest does not tend to stay at rest; and not every action can be counted on to provoke an equal and opposite reaction. Time, too, is different. It may run in circles, flow backward, skip about from now to then. The very arrangement of molecules is fluid: Tables can be clocks; faces, flowers.
These are facts you find out later, though.
Another odd feature of the parallel universe is that although it is invisible from this side, once you are in it you can easily see the world you came from. Sometimes the world you came from looks huge and menacing, quivering like a vast pile of jelly; at other times it is miniaturized and alluring, a-spin and shining in its orbit. Either way, it can’t be discounted.
Every window on Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.”
Source: Girl, Interrupted
“People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it shows how old I am. But I thought that conservatives were supposed to like balanced budgets. I thought it was the conservative position to not leave heavy indebtedness to our grandchildren.”