P Quotes
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“People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours.”
“People-based service is God-based service”
“People basically aren't that racist. They want their laughs. If I make a white guy laugh, he's gonna come see me. He's not gonna go see the white guy who doesn't make him laugh just because that guy is white.”
“People beautify only what they love, and death repels us and tires our patience. It, too, is to be conquered.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.”
“People become artists out of despair.”
“People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“People become concerned with being more humble than other people.”
Source: Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation
“People become depressed when they neglect their spiritual practice.”
“People become desensitized to many things going on around them. It is because they always see it on the tv, hear it on the radio, read or watch it on the internet, hear about it at work etc. Then immoral acts are tuned to a deaf ear. Then no one wants to take action or speak up for what's right. Break the cycle and have moral character.”
“People become discouraged when they listen to their 'inner critic'... Whatever that voice is saying, articulate a response, drawing from the part of you that feels strong and confident. Be your own cheerleader.”
“People become followers of the God because of his fear, but they become a fan of a hero because of his work.”
“People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.”
“People become less inhibited from wanting to change social and economic conditions in a radical fashion according to their own interests, and from being prepared to think of state intervention in ever wider spheres as possible and useful for this purpose.”
“People become more valuable when they gain skills and capabilities that enable them to add value to other peoples lives. A business is a collaboration of people. Businesses also become more valuable when they gain skills and capabilities that enable them to add value to peoples lives.”
“People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”
“People become so caught up in a child's understanding of a world much larger than their own, one that, I imagine, they are in no great rush to understand. I think of these people, eager to burden their children with their own discomforts, every time there is a mass shooting.”
Source: They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays
“People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard people complain bitterly about recordings they haven't even heard.”
“People become successful the minute they decide to.”
“People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.”
“People become trustworthy when they are trusted.”
“People become wealthy when they become specific... when they know what that means to them, not only in terms of the objects and amounts involved - ... but also in terms of how they want this wealth to make them feel.”
“People become what they expect themselves to become”
“People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.”
“People been killing each other since forever and hurting each other since forever and taking advantage of each other since forever.”
“People before Profit.”
“People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.”
Source: Afterthoughts
“People began to find out in the last century was that thoughts-just mere thoughts-are as powerful as electric batteries-as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live.”
Source: Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy (LOA #323)
“People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.”
Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States
“People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.”
“People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.”
“People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency.”
“People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior, but most people are coming from abuse.”
“People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it's to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don't hear the word 'no' enough.”
“People behave in strange and illogical ways when they're afraid they may have to take responsibility.”
Source: Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
“People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.”
Source: The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey
“People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or Miles Davis on every corner...I almost expected a Shorty Rogers to deliver the milk, a Bud Shank to be the mailman.”
“People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.”
“People being forced to get health care and the insurance companies making millions.”
“People being incoherent might get on our nerves sometimes. We like coherence in actions and thoughts since we value clarity and structure in our lives. But at times, we are alarmed because we cannot help being incoherent when we want to challenge established norms and explore unconventional paths that lead to unexpected connections or new insights. Allowing ourselves some incoherence might open the door to new perspectives and surprising outcomes. ("Drunken sailor”)”
“People being incredibly rude and playing music incredibly badly and being incredibly obnoxious has always been a teenage sort of thing.”
“People being nice for no apparent reason always made me suspicious. People being nice to me with no apparent reason made me even more suspicious.”
Source: Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie
“People beleived that the most devastating part of a war are the corpses with their guts out in the open, the puddles of blood, and all that you can capture at first glance. But sometimes the horror is off to the side, in the lost look on the face of a woman who's just been raped, as she limps away alone within the ruins, trying to keep her head down. Gerda and Capa were not aware of this yet. They were too young. And that was their first conflict. They still believed war had its romantic side.”
“People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.”
“People believe anything when presented correctly.”
Source: House of Sky and Breath
“People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I come, and to it I always return.”
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“People believe in everything, except the reality.”
“People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.”
“People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.”
Source: The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
“People believe in miracles, precisely because they don’t believe in miracles.”