P Quotes
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“people constantly asked themselves if they were content as if it were their main occupation in life. And what was happiness? Not selfish fulfillment, of this she was certain. That seemed like a recipe for the opposite. Joy was in the loving and caring of others.”
Source: Infinite Country
“People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.”
“People constantly make the mistake of comparing London with New York, Milan and Paris and that's not what it's about. London has its own fashion identity. You come here to find the next Alexander McQueen or John Galliano.”
“People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours.”
“People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. They may have some better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any respect.”
“People consuming even moderate amounts of alcohol in the afternoon and/or evening are thus depriving themselves of dream sleep.”
Source: Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
“People continually ask me, "Why does the media do what it does? Why are they so obviously self-destructive? Why are they so obviously predictable? Why is the media so obviously biased? Do they not see how other people see?" No, they don't. But then again, they don't care, folks.”
“People continue to fear dying, only because no one ever has.”
“People continued regardless of all that leads man forward to try to unite the incompatibles:;: the virtue of love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining of evil by violence. And such a teaching, despite its inner contradiction, was so firmly established that the very people who recognize love as a virtue accept as lawful at the same time an order of life based on violence and allowing men not merely to torture but even to kill one another.”
“People convert to christianity looking for bread, people convert to hinduism looking for answers, people convert to buddhism in search of freedom, people convert to islam in order to heal.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“People cooked with a certain integrity before fast food, 50 or 60 years ago. When the cheap food arrived, and we didn't have the education and deep cultural roots to hold on, we got swept away by fast, cheap and easy.”
“People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.”
“People could achieve much more if only they would put in more effort. You must take responsibility for your own life. Be conscious of how you use your time! Be conscious of how you listen! Be conscious of how you manage all of your affairs, so that God can look upon you and be well pleased. Seek God's honor in everything you do.”
“People could be built far greater in the Lord and be more wonderfully established if they would move out sometimes and think over the graces of the Lord.”
Source: Smith Wigglesworth On The Power Of Scripture
“People could bear so much, but Simon did not know how much of the original you was left when the world had twisted you into a whole different shape.”
Source: Bitter of Tongue
“People could connect with me... I think the appeal was that, "Here he is, he's just a normal guy like us, and he's giving it his all".”
“People could hardly be expected to act upon our advice, for no one can give what he does not have: "Jesus began to do and to teach." (Acts 1:1)”
Source: The Secret of the Rosary
“People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.”
“People could look like anything. Any person with a phone managed their identity through a selection of photos whose appearances were impractical to debunk. One could reap the impression of a character if they pleased. People could post to appear like-minded, tough, the best, smart, creative, melancholy, and rich regardless of their actual state. A profile was a catalog of identity theft: books made one dreamy. Luxury made one wanted. Art made one complex. Travel made one busy. And minimalism made a person seem above it all.
And the pursuit of this fraud only produced further unhappiness. Users’ contributions to the internet proceeded to tell the world that they were content and did not need love, while the very act of posting such a statement said that they were unhappy and indeed in need of love.”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“People could not contact family members during the historic August 2023 Maui wildfires.”
“People could not get enough of what they had lost, even if they no longer wanted it.”
Source: The Interestings: A Novel
“People could push and pull at you, and poke you, and probe as deep as they could go. They could even tear you apart, bit by bit. But at the heart and root and soul of you, something would remain untouched.”
“People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)
“People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.”
“People could say a lot of negative things about the apocalypse, but there was no arguing the air quality in Los Angeles had really improved.”
Source: Ex-Heroes
“People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.”
“People could see whatever they wanted to see on the outside, but if they scratched the surface they would find I too pulsed with dangerous power. This was my secret. This was my weapon. This was what would get me through.”
Source: Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War
“People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.”
Source: Fear Nothing: A Novel
“People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.”
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.”
“People crave a conspiracy for the same reason they crave a god.”
“People crave attention and appreciation more than they do bread.”
“People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.”
“People crave encouragement, and sometimes the greatest encouragement is the writing of words that endure. Perhaps you can pen a note of affirmation and approval to someone today.”
“People crave for more respect than love, because they expect love only from few people but they want respect from everyone.”
“People crave laughter as if it were an essential amino acid.”
Source: Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy
“People create conflicts, arguments and all sorts of noise to help each other avoid silence. Because nothing scares a mind more than silence. Silence is the language of soul. The soul talks to God when mind stops talking about God.”
“People create sins out of nothing and in doing so have enslaved their fellow man! Man is not bound by sin but man is bound by the idea that almost everything he is doing is a sin!”
“People create social conditions and people can change them.”
Source: Three plays
“People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.”
“People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It's too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow. That's why today matters. Most of the time we miss that.”
“People create the illusion of acting natural, which is what I think most documentarians do in part because of the direct cinema orthodoxies that came into play really in the '60s. That moment of performance is a tremendous opportunity to make visible something hitherto invisible, which is how people want to be seen. How do they see themselves? What are the scripts, fantasies, genres by which they imagine themselves? How is storytelling part of what we are as human beings? We wouldn't kill each other en masse if it weren't for storytelling. We wouldn't be able to live with ourselves.”
“People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves”
Source: The Denial of Death
“People create their own experiences.”
“People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.”
Source: We the Living
“People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.”
“People cried over endings, but sometimes you had to cry over new beginnings. I wouldn't forget what I'd left. But I was going to be excited—at least as much as I could be—about this start and however it would end.”
Source: All Rhodes Lead Here
“People criticize a woman for everything - like, I get criticized for how my hair looks when I go grocery shopping or the fact that I don’t wear makeup when I get my nails done.”
“People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.”
“People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.”