P Quotes
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“People can be cruelest to those they love.”
“People can be extraordinarily resilient and show extraordinary grace and humour even in moments of tribulation. I've always found that it's much easier for people who are not terribly, badly off to lose hope and to be pessimistic. I suppose that when you are in a really serious situation, you have to be present, you have to think about it, there's not much scope for self-pity.”
“People can be good, people can be generous, people can be helpful. People can help those who are in need when they need it.”
“People can be great competitors on Sunday and mates on Monday.”
“People can be happy in only one way, and that is if they are authentically themselves. Then the springs of happiness start flowing, they become more alive, they become a joy to see, a joy to be with; they are a song, they are a dance.”
“People can be happy while they are going through great pain and adversity. There's no pleasure evident in their external lives yet they are content on the inside. And conversely, tons of people are surrounded by pleasure (fast cars, nice homes, great clothes) but there is no joy within. So choose to be happy.”
“People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.”
“People can be in a prison of their own mind. [There are] people who don't have their hearts open to other people's ideas, and can't listen to other people's ideas without feeling like they're being slapped in the face. Those people are more in a prison.”
“People can be incredibly resistant to considering facts that don't fit with their world view and the belief that women are as violent and abusive as men is one that too many seem to be unwilling to let go of. Sex differences in intimate partner homicide rates (homicide includes killings sentenced as both murders and manslaughters) show that so-called 'sex symmetry' is a myth.”
Source: Defending Women's Spaces
“People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.”
“People can be, like, "you're not really that important for me to stay." And they expect me to say things like, "I can show you how important I am, more than the others", thus expecting this whole dance-of-the-human to ensue. Listen, I don't do dance-of-the-human. I am here in this place where moonlight is the only light and I don't need to be the Sun. The Moon is okay. And some people prefer the Sun, and that's okay too. I have cozy things where I am: quietness and a cat. And big windows and tea. I can let people like other things that are not me. I'm not going to be doing that dance with you. If you want to stay with me, it's going to be because you want to be near me and if you don't want to be near me then that means you want to be near someone or something else. That's okay. I don't have to be everything. I only have to be me.”
“People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.”
Source: My Mortal Enemy
“People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.”
“People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative."”
“People can be persuaded to desire almost anything, for a time, if they are constantly told that it is something to which they are entitled and which is unjustly withheld from them.”
Source: Notes towards the Definition of Culture
“People can be quite bullish with their opinions. That does not mean they have their finger on the pulse. It just means they value their own opinion.”
“People can be really mean - they say the most vicious things.”
“People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.”
“People can be slave-ships in shoes.”
Source: Dust tracks on a road
“People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening”
“People can be so cruel. And that’s just what they’re proud of. So you can imagine the deeds they are actually ashamed of.”
“People can be so heartless and dirty.”
“People can be so petty, can't they? This is why you should only give as much notice as is considered culturally appropriate in the organization, and once you do, keep up with all of your job responsibilities until the very last hour. Other than that, all you can do is take the high road, and behave professionally yourself even if you aren't receiving the same treatment back.”
“People can be stunningly unobservant.”
Source: Mr. Mercedes: A Novel
“People can be taught to hate. And people can be taught to spell. But apparently, it's one or the other.”
“People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think they have to be... a genius can be an idiot. The world is largely run for and by idiots; it is no great handicap in life and in certain areas is actually a distinct advantage and even a prerequisite for advancement.”
Source: The Crow Road
“People can be tough as hell. They can go through some really heavy stuff... with a genuine smile...”
Source: Immortals
“People can be trained in certain principles, but then they actually have to apply them and try them out.”
“People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.”
“People can be unreliable and disloyal; possessions can lose their value; jobs that once stimulated you can become boring. But principles remain steady through it all.”
Source: Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement
“People can be … well, they can be wonderful. And sometimes, unfortunately, they can be monsters we hide from inside our homes. We worry that those monsters will find their way inside. We’re not supposed to fear that they already are inside. Your mom and dad are supposed to protect you from that. They’re not supposed to be the monster.”
Source: Down London Road
“People can bear anything.”
Source: The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal
“People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.”
Source: Think a Second Time
“People can become anything under the right conditions.”
Source: You The Leader
“People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them.”
Source: A Step of Faith: A Novel
“People can begin on the same trajectory only to wind up, twenty years later, so far from one another that it’s impossible to chart a course back.”
Source: At the Edge of the Universe
“People can behave like savages when they are allowed to, but only in art do they go so far as to call themselves primitivists. And when the primitivist urge doesn’t seize them, the psychoaesthetic urge, the study of human evil - itself another form of primitivism, when you come to think about it - does. So portrait painting is a further recidivism that’s frowned on and discouraged - that’s insofar as one can discourage anything in a free society. In the main, prize-culture does the job for us. When all the gongs go to landscape, why would any aspiring artist waste his energies on the dull and relentless cruelties of the human face?”
Source: J
“People can believe in their own progress and success. They can even believe in strangers success. But when it comes to success of anyone from their social circle, they think, it must be by fluke and the other person doesn't deserve it.”
Source: Stories Of Jivavarta
“People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe.”
“People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.”
“People can buy a bottle of gin and drink it at home for about a buck a drink, whereas they are willing to go to a bar and pay 12 bucks for the same cocktail. The difference is that man needs to be social. So I believe that there is a strong demand for games that are social.”
“People can buy the kind of things they consider as normal and take for granted because of globalization and trade and use of supply chains and the reduction of the cost base of the manufacturing of some products.”
“People can call you many different things, but you are not what people call you. You are what you answer to.”
“People can campaign to break you, collaborate to alienate you, and even worse, create false testimonies to orchestrate your downfall. Still, when you are destined for greatness, you will be great, regardless. Never lose Faith!”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“People can campaign to break you, collaborate to alienate you, even worse, create false testimonies to orchestrate your downfall; but when you are destined for greatness, you will be great, regardless. Never lose faith!”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“People can care about changing the world. But what gets them to act is pressure and social reward.”
“People can certainly be creative when they're under the gun, but only when they're able to focus on the work.”
“People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world.”
“People can change, but systems cannot without losing their structural integrity.”
Source: The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling
“People can change their mind about you, but God’s purpose for you is assured.”
Source: The Infinity Sign