P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People develop mindsets over a period of time about each object & behave accordingly.”
“People develop their health habits when they're kids, and that carries through their whole life.”
“People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built a plane.”
“People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering.”
Source: Revolutionary Road
“People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.”
“People did not go jumping from one place to another with nothing in between. It simply did not happen.”
“People didn’t commission Alias Black to commit murder—no, it was more like paying the devil himself to crawl out from underneath the cobblestones and drag unfortunate souls back with him to hell.”
Source: My Brother's Spare
“People didn’t get nice by accident, did they? They had parents who were nice. Nice to their kids, nice to others.”
Source: Nowhere to Run
“People didn’t get nice by accident, did they? They had parents who were nice. Nice to their kids, nice to others. His parents . . . well, they didn’t understand the concept of “nice.”
“People didn’t go looking for lies that didn’t have a reason.”
Source: Ninth House
“People didn’t matter to the Company. They were commodities like everything else: free to produce and cheap to replace. Only what they dug out of the ground had value.”
Source: The Devil and the Dark Water
“People didn’t need comfort to thrive, or pleasure; they only needed to find meaning.”
Source: Ambrosia
“People didn’t realize you really could die twice.”
Source: Delicious Death
“People didn't stick because I was made of fucking Teflon. I'd always told myself that it was better that way, that being alone was easier. That I wasn't a coward for easing my way out of friendships before they could really start.”
Source: Magic for Liars
“People didn't turn their eyes to the heavens in search of the dark. It was the light they sought.”
Source: Rule of Wolves
“People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?'”
“People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.”
Source: The Last Song
“People didn't feel so much shame around it and that they didn't feel so much humiliation around it. And the other thing that people have given me a lot of feedback about - something I'm very excited about - is all the stuff around chemo as an "empathetic warrior."”
“People didn't get to see how other towns interpreted the underground ethos, and so they developed their own unique versions of it.”
“People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.”
“People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing.”
“People didn't know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.”
“People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered sex offender and I'd just been released from prison and was being forced to do community-service work. I was a murderer, an arsonist - all these horrific things had been projected on me because no one knew what to make of this white guy who showed up and made toast at 5 o'clock every morning.”
“People didn't love all of this when they still had it. If you love something, you do what's best for it. You don't destroy it.”
“People didn't make life, so they can't destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in the world, we can't touch the place life comes from. Whatever made the plants and animals and people spring up in the first place will always be there, and life will spring up again.”
Source: The Books of Ember Omnibus
“People didn't put pressure on me. I just played for the love of the game.”
“People didn't really like McDonald's, same as her mum didn't really like Catholicism, but when you were new in town, at least it was a known quantity. So that'll be a Quarter-Pounder and a Communion Wafer meal-deal to go.”
Source: Pandaemonium
“People didn't really take white rappers seriously until Eminem, because he was better than everybody. Like female emcees, you need to be like Lauryn Hill or Nicki Minaj or killing everything before somebody takes you seriously.”
“People didn't relate to me as being Chinese or white, just being a hippie, a long-haired hippie.”
“People didn't sit and watch television and go, oh, my God, we're failing. So what are they doing in China is, they set up the markets as the test of their own economic management and of this whole theory of economic liberalization.”
“People didn't talk about paedophiles in the seventies, I don't think.”
“People didn't think that a woman could be the Secretary of State, when my name was out there...but then the Arab Ambassadors at the UN said 'We have no problem dealing with Ambassador Albright, and we would have no problem dealing with Secretary Albright.'”
“People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.”
“People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.”
“People didnt know until I said it publicly that I had a nasty side. It was never obvious to the fans. I never lost my head, you see. Never got sent off.”
“People die . . . so love them every day.
Beauty fades . . . so look before it's gone.
Love changes . . . but not the love you give.
And if you love, you'll never be alone.”
Source: Witchlight
“People die all around us all the time. Drop like flies. Overdose. Aids. Sometimes they kill themselves. People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again”
Source: Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland
“People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies.”
Source: Dance Dance Dance
“People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies. Personally, I don't buy it."
Yuki leaned against the car door. "But that's real hard, isn't it?" she said.
"Real hard," I said. "But it's worth trying for.”
Source: Dance Dance Dance
“People die all the time. It's just that you're not around.”
“People die and people cry people want me dead.”
“People die and starve every day, but look on the bright side. Lower population.”
“People die because they find living too painful.”
“People die from checkmate..., they run and run they are always the figure king, they run and run one of their paths once it's blocked they run and run keep it again a path is blocked they run in this place again and again.... with the time the path goes small and small one moment you have one path and then a other figure comes and it has been blocked by it... so you are killed by this you can't protect yourself. It's the best attack ever made, it's called checkmate!”
“People die from hitting the wall, they hit it again and again...
...
one moment it ends all and they die!”
“People die from lack of shared empathy and affinity. By establishing social connectedness, we give hope a chance and the other can become heaven. ( "Le ciel c'est l'autre" )”
“People die from typewriters falling on their heads.”
“People die if they are killed”
“People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.”
“People die.
Others are born.
For us,
the fear of dying before living
haunts us while we are still
in our mothers' wombs.”
Source: Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza