P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People do suffer – so remember to be kind.”
Source: Hurricane to a Rainbow: Anxiety, PTSD, BPD, Autistic Spectrum, and Schizophrenia
“People do support themselves as artists and writers, so there's no need to be all doom and gloom about it. You just have to push forward. You have to follow your vision and hope for the best. You have to write for love.”
“People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.”
“People do tend to burrow in
for winter holidays
but then
burrowing can be as damaging
(implosion, avoidance)
as it can be cozy
(buzzword: self-care)
maybe one maybe t'other
maybe some of both.”
“People do tend to fear and despise shamans but turn to them in times of desperation. Such a contradiction is a human characteristic, no? I'm more pulled to the human drama of shamans - their experience in society and identity struggles - than their transcendental power. Their drastic lives enable them to empathize with others and provide solace.”
“People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.”
Source: Bad Feminist: Essays
“People do terrible things. People do beautiful things. It's against the black backdrop of evil that the shining light of good shows the brightest. We can't just focus on the darkness of the night, or we'll miss out on the stars.”
Source: All We Have Left
“people do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.”
“People do that sometimes. Change.”
Source: Paper Valentine
“People do the damndest things when they’re in love.”
Source: Half-Blood
“People do things for "their" reasons, not ours. So find their reasons.”
“People do things in the names of good, and in the name of ideals, but the world isn't that simple. So they end up doing things that aren't necessarily good. Even if they think they're doing the right thing, but when viewed from a different perspective they can look barbaric and crazy.”
“People do things sometimes you won’t like, they say things you you’d wish they would not, they look at you with transparent expressions, they make you want to outrage in a violent matter”
“People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.”
“People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.”
“People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.”
“People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.”
“People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.”
“People do this a lot. They don't seem to realise that the future is just like now, but in a little while, so they say they're going to do things in anticipation of some kind of seismic shift in their worldview that never actually materialises. But everything's not going to be made of leather, the world won't stink of sherbet. Tomorrow is not some mythical kingdom where you'll grow butterfly wings and be able to talk to animals - you'll basically feel pretty much the same way you do at the moment.”
Source: My Booky Wook
“People do this a lot. They don't seem to realise that the future is just like now, but in a little while, so they say they're going to do things in anticipation of some kind of seismic shift in their worldview that never actually materializes. But everything's not going to be made of leather, the world won't stink of sherbet. Tomorrow is not some mythical kingdom where you'll grow butterfly wings and be able to talk to animals -- you'll basically feel pretty much the same way you do at the moment.”
“People do too much. They say too much.”
“People do understand the language of the heart, you know, even if the head does not always comprehend it.”
Source: The Proposal
“People do want to be young and beautiful. When they meet in the street, male or female, if they're getting older they look at each other's face a little ashamed. It's clear they want to say, Excuse me, I didn't mean to draw attention to mortality and gravity all at once. I didn't want to remind you, my dear friend, of our coming eviction, first from liveliness, then from life. To which, most of the time, the friend's eyes will courteously reply, My dear, it's nothing at all. I hardly noticed.”
Source: A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry
“People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?”
“People do want to know, there is curiosity, it is a matter of public interest. That is not sufficient reason to disclose information. It is not sufficient that there be curiosity and interest that you want to disclose information.”
“People do what seems easy and convenient, not what is best for them.”
“People do what their society rewards them to do. If the society rewards trust, people will be trusting”
“People do what they are told not to do. It happens time and time again. Here on the frozen tundra, it is known as the Tongue on the Frozen Pump Handle principle.”
“People do what they do to each other and they feed on it.”
“People do what they think is right, but that does not make it good.”
Source: A Poison Dark and Drowning
“People do what they think works for them, but the sport is about instinct, movement, balance, power... it's too animalistic to get rigid about your training.”
“People do what you inspect, not what you expect.”
Source: Digital It: 100 Q&as
“People do whatever they want to do, y'know.”
“People do yield before violence, that's for sure. Your logic is sound there. But to carry out that logic, you need to be stronger than the other guy. Do you understand that?”
“People do, as long as you have markets, you'll have excesses.”
“People doing rote assembly-line movements, or someone tossing dough over and over in a pizza parlour is boring. It’s boring to watch and boring to perform. But if you’re a bad pizza thrower who drops the dough or watches it stick to the ceiling, then we know something more about your character.”
“People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.”
“People doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. People doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. Only getting what they wanted if it would ultimately destroy them.”
Source: Beach Read
“People doing what they love and doing it well always inspires me.”
“People don' need no monster to make 'em do evil-hearted shit. All it take is a brown face, or somebody wearin' old tore-up clothes.”
Source: How Long 'til Black Future Month?
“People don’t adopt their ideologies at random, or by soaking up whatever ideas are around them. People whose genes gave them brains that get a special pleasure from novelty, variety, and diversity, while simultaneously being less sensitive to signs of threat, are predisposed (but not predestined) to become liberals. They tend to develop certain “characteristic adaptations” and “life narratives” that make them resonate—unconsciously and intuitively—with the grand narratives told by political movements on the left (such as the liberal progress narrative). People whose genes give them brains with the opposite settings are predisposed, for the same reasons, to resonate with the grand narratives of the right (such as the Reagan narrative).
Once people join a political team, they get ensnared in its moral matrix. They see confirmation of their grand narrative everywhere, and it’s difficult—perhaps impossible—to convince them that they are wrong if you argue with them from outside of their matrix. I suggested that liberals might have even more difficulty understanding conservatives than the other way around, because liberals often have difficulty understanding how the Loyalty, Authority, and Sanctity foundations have anything to do with morality. In particular, liberals often have difficulty seeing moral capital, which I defined as the resources that sustain a moral community.”
Source: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
“People don't always go down in history for the vigor with which they perform their jobs. We remember Louis the Fifteenth . . . for his furniture; we remember Pierre Léotard, despite his being the greatest trapeze artist ever, for his leotard. The idea is to give your name to something, like the zeppelin, the newton, Morse code, the chicuelina.”
Source: Our Lady of the Circus
“People don't always practice what they preach, don't act on their convictions, and that's excusable, especially in our time. Lots of strange things happen when people are beside themselves with grief. Don't you agree?”
Source: Chinese Lives: An Oral History of Contemporary China
“People don’t always stab you with knives. Sometimes it’s the slow slicing of passive envy.”
Source: Where The Cicada Sleeps: A Diary-Style Portrait of Girlhood, Betrayal, and the Quiet Violence of Being Misunderstood
“People don’t always take us seriously,” she continued. “People come to HorrorLand and think it’s all a big joke. People laugh at the signs around the park. They laugh at the rides and attractions.”
Source: One Day at Horrorland
“People don’t always understand lonely people.”
Source: The Reading List
“People don't always want what they need nor do they need what they want ; but they always need to want.”
“People don't appreciate what they have… until it's gone.”
“People don’t argue to find out the truth anymore. People will settle for winning momentary discussions, never minding the nuances within every topic they superficially defend with indomitable passion.”
Source: U-Day
“People don't arrive broken. They start with passion and yearning till something comes along that disabuses them of these notions.”