P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People believe in you more after you've won an Oscar, but it's up to you what choices you make.”
“People believe Loose Change because it proposes a closed world: comprehensible, controllable, small. Despite the great evil which runs it, it is more companionable than the chaos which really governs our lives, a world without destination or purpose.”
“People believe marriage will make us better.”
“People believe mistakenly, that with death comes atonement, when in reality, life is for atonement and Death is for Judgment.”
“People believe pictures. It's a photograph that's in your passport, not a painting. Now,
George Bernard Shaw said, 'I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.' That's what the power of photography is.”
“People believe that companies have always had strategies, dating back at least to likes of Henry Ford or Andrew Carnegie, maybe to the contractors who built the Pyramids. As it turns out, it was only in the 1960s and 1970s that a new breed of "business intellectuals" began to develop the intellectual framework that allowed companies to look at the three "C's" of any good strategy - namely their costs, customers, and competitors - in an integrated way.”
“People believe that if a hijra curses you, bad things will happen. That God Ram blessed hijras with this power, that our blessings and curses will come true. People give us money because they are scared of our curse. Now that's the only way hijras can survive - by saying, "Give me money, otherwise I'll curse you." That clap, which scares people, has become our identity. In a way, you use myths and misconceptions for your own survival.”
“People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for.”
“People believe that if you're concerned about the clothes you're wearing and the larger aspects of your appearance, that it's anti-intellectual. I say "Hogwash!" The clothes we wear send a message about how the world perceives us.”
“People believe that knowing how you did the mistake helps to prevent repeating in the future.”
“People believe that management consultants are mostly useless parasites. Up until about 1980 it was consultants more than anyone else who came up with the critical concepts behind strategy. The history of strategy suggests there are lots of things consultants can do for a company that the company can't typically do for itself.”
“People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.”
“People believe that radical Islamic terrorism has not been defeated. They don't much like ObamaCare, they think it's been a bad deal for many Americans. They certainly think everyday affordability is elusive to them.”
“People believe that there's no room for change, there's no room to grow and if we're talking about this idea of God which is the infinite then there's no way that there's no room to grow because infinity is endless. So there must be more room to understand more and to evolve the way we think about this idea.”
“People believe that what a man needs is work. This, of course, is absurd. What he needs is the goods produced by work, and the less work involved in making a given amount of goods, the better.”
Source: Political Ideals
“People believe that when they say "yes" to this moment, things won't change anymore. They're afraid that if they accept what is, whatever form this moment takes, they're going to be stuck forever in this moment that they don't like: this job or relationship or whatever situation they're in that they don't like. But this is not true.”
“People believe they think logically, but most decisions are shaped before logic begins.”
Source: Dark Facts About Human Nature: 300 Psychological Truths About Manipulation, Emotions, and the Hidden Mind
“People believe those fairytales about falling in love at first sight at the bus, subway, or at the streets. But it doesn’t make sense how they’d laugh at the ones who fell in love at first sight through TV screens. Loving a celebrity IS a type of love. Love is fair to everyone.”
“People believe what they are told.”
“People believe what they see.”
“People believe what they want to believe.”
“People believe what they want to believe. You have to run your race and be proud of the person you see in the mirror.”
“People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghost, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief, that makes things happen.”
“People believed him. Everyone believed him. And when everyone believes something about you, it might as well be true.”
Source: Love Show
“People believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes
“People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing.”
Source: The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel
“People better get used to the idea that I exist.”
“People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do -after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.”
“People bicker so and have such rows. Even if they're fond of each other, they still seem to have rows and not to mind a bit whether they have them in public or not.”
Source: A Caribbean Mystery
“People blame destiny for their failed relationships to cover up their lack of commitment towards relations in their life.”
“People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then? WOULD IT!?!”
“People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn’t blame science. People should blame people.”
Source: Countdown
“People blame their environment, their education, their opportunities, their luck, for their condition. They are wrong. There is one person to blame — and only one — THEMSELVES.”
“People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.”
Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost
“People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.”
Source: Psychopath: A Novel
“People boast about having a gentle soul. I'll tell you right away, I am not gentle, I am the pinnacle of everything that is violent in nature. Yet nobody has ever seen me violent - you know why? Because gentleness is not the absence of violence, gentleness is the mastery over violence.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talking to my trees”
“People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and "go to the city," have a resentment of Manhattan, of the swiftness of its life and success of the people who live there.”
Source: Table Money: A Novel
“People born to a society without the smile culture all their lives will be unhappy!”
“People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.”
“People break our hearts, but they create more room in them first, and that room makes it possible for us to become more ourselves.”
Source: She Drives Me Crazy
“People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.”
“People bring flowers and that's pretty memorable. I actually got a rose from one girl. She was so beautiful! I love all the screenings to be honest with you. I don't think I have gone to one single bad screening! Even if negative things happen, I turn it into positive reaction.”
“People bring me homemade food, and I'm always kind of creeped out. That's definitely happened a few times on tour, and it's like, "There's no way that's getting eaten. That's getting put down as soon as you're out of my sight."”
“People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.”
“People bring up my hair quite a bit. It's strategically tousled. The flatiron is the key.”
“People build continuity into their life: Places, friends and goals. We go to work on Monday with plans for Friday night, enroll as freshmen intending to be seniors and save money for retirement. We try to control what comes next and shape it to meet our will.”
Source: One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
“People build emotional walls when they are stopped from expressing emotions.”
“People build fame because they're pretty sometimes.Most of the time. This is what the audience wants, apparently. I don't necessarily agree, but I cannot go against it. But it's true that our industry is just full of people who actually really look good. It's the criteria of our generation.”