P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People don't like getting older, but they do like changing. Staying the same is a kind of death.”
Source: Thanks for the Trouble
“People don't like it when you say real things.”
Source: A Line Made By Walking
“People don't like sex because it's clean. People like sex because it's dirty. Anyone trying to convince you otherwise is a bold-faced liar trying to sucker you into shame.”
“People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think. Don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome.”
“People don't like to talk about death because it makes them sad.”
Source: Slammed
“People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
“People don't like to wait for words, they want the words to wait for them.”
“People don't like us, my dear. The idea that someone who can play with their emotions, who can "mystically" get them to do certain things, makes them uncomfortable. What they do not realize - and what you must realize - is that manipulating is at the core of our social interaction. (...) Think about it. What is a man doing when he seeks the affection of a young lady? Why, he is trying to manipulate her to regard him favorably. What happens when two old friends sit down for a drink? They tell stories, trying to impress each other. Life as a human being is about posturing and influence. This isn't a bad thing, in fact, we depend upon it. These interactions teach us how to respond to others.”
“People don’t like when others live differently.”
Source: The Legendary Inge
“People don't look into their neighbor's bowl to see if he's got enough food. They look to see if that asshole has more. Greed is easy. Sharing's hard. It's why parents have to teach that instead of not hoarding shit. We're all hard wired for self-preservation. [Kai Gracen]”
Source: Mad Lizard Mambo
“People don't love each other in the same way.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“People don’t make circumstances, but it’s the other way around. Situations and circumstances make a society and the people living in it.”
Source: Survive to Thrive: Journey of Dr. Rajesh Soin
“People don't make decisions within these sorts of groups. They try to avoid more torture. Then they are tortured into thinking they made a decision of their own free will.”
Source: White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control
“People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. The people here are going to change. The patients are going to leave. You can't rely on them.”
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“People don’t mature with age. They mature with their ability to get more in touch with their sensuality.”
“People don't mind taking some hard punches for the right reasons.”
Source: The Good Mother of Marseille
“People don't move into action because of statistics. They move because of their hearts. We're hardwired with empathy neurons, billions of them, and human beings are evolutionarily programmed to help one another.”
Source: The Roots of Resistance: - Love and Revolution -
“People don’t necessarily realize it when they contribute to the erosion of a child’s self-worth, but kids pay attention to how people treat them, and they get the message loud and clear. I wish I could say it didn’t distort their self-perception and make them more sensitive and insecure, but it does.”
Source: Grateful to Be Alive: My Road to Recovery from Addiction
“People don't need a reason to make a bad decision; they just need an opportunity.”
“People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something hard. Often, what divides successful from unsuccessful people is doing what you don't feel motivated to do.”
Source: Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
“People don’t need nice; they need the truth. I find it ridiculous that a guy has this kind of hold on you. Have some self-respect. It’s insane to give full control of your emotions to someone who doesn’t give a damn about you”
Source: Disgrace
“People don’t need to die to disappear. Or to move on from a place, or a people or time.
Sometimes it’s the place that does the moving on and we think remaining there will keep it alive.
Like not giving in not conceding or admitting defeat. Becoming a holdout. The holdout.
It’s only later that we realize a holdout can become a loss if it wasn’t already.
I already lost. Home’s moved on.”
“People don't need to know how good you are.
Just smile, just slay and just show.”
“People don’t notice the things we do for them until we stop doing them.”
“People don't practice their smiles nearly enough, so when they most need to look happy they're not fooling anyone.”
Source: Zombie
“People don't qualify as people when they deny humanity to others.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"
[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]”
“People don't read anymore. And, when they do, they don't read books like this one, but instead read books that depress them, because those books are seen as important. Somehow, the Librarians have successfully managed to convince most people in the Hushlands that they shouldn't read anything that isn't boring.
It comes down to Biblioden the Scrivener's great vision for the world — a vision in which people never do anything abnormal, never dream, and never experience anything strange. His minions teach people to stop reading fun books, and instead focus on fantasy novels. That's what I call them, because these books keep people trapped. Keep them inside the nice little fantasy that they consider to be the 'real' world. A fantasy that tells them they don't need to try something new.
After all, trying new things can be difficult.”
Source: Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones
“People don't read, that is their problem.”
“People don't realize how easy they have it these days. Most kids have never known what it's like to go without anything. They want something, they get it. If there isn't enough money, they charge it. We never wanted anything because we never realized we could have anything. We never missed what we never had. Things were much simpler back then, and we were stronger for it. We worked together to keep the house in order, to put food on the table. We kept things going.”
Source: Clara's Kitchen: Wisdom, Memories, and Recipes from the Great Depression
“People don't realize how their rude words can mess with your head forever.”
“People don't really trust advertisement they trust people. A large percentage of people make purchase decisions based on their friends review than just from advertisers. Brands that rely sole on adverts to sell, will eventually fade out. You need to get people to talk about your brand in a more positive manner without twisting their arms. If you fake it your will fade. So, focus on relationship marketing, because customers are the best brand ambassadors”
“People don’t remember data — they remember stories. And the right story can change someone’s financial life.”
Source: Billionaire Cab Driver: Timeless Lessons for Financial Success
“People don’t remember lessons. They remember stories.”
“People don't resist change. They resist being changed.”
“People don’t say what they mean. They say what makes them likable, and expect you to guess the rest.”
Source: Where The Cicada Sleeps: A Diary-Style Portrait of Girlhood, Betrayal, and the Quiet Violence of Being Misunderstood
“People don't see it that way. It's always the woman who is blamed for not trying hard enough to please her man.”
Source: Second Chinese Daughter
“People don't seem as annoying when I've got coffee”
Source: Promises
“People . . . don't . . . seem. . . to realise," he said, "what Evil is. They don't . . . seem . . . to realise how far it goes down! It has holes . . . that go down . . . beyond the mind . . . beyond the reason . . . beyond all we can think of! Something comes up from these holes that gives you power when you're in certain . . . in certain moods . . . and it's then that you feel things . . . and . . . Do Things"—his voice rose here to such a pitch that the girl started up and made a movement of her hand towards him—"which nothing in Nature can forgive!”
Source: A Glastonbury Romance
“People don’t seem to realize
it that it is not like we’re on
the Titanic and we have to
avoid the iceberg. We’ve
already hit the iceberg. The
water is rushing in down below. But some people just
don’t want to leave the dance
floor; others don’t want to
give up on the buffet. But if
we don’t make the hard
choices, nature will make them for u”
“People don’t shake a dirty hand particularly when it is empty”
Source: A moment with God ; Poetry
“People don’t stick needles in their arms and pump themselves full of mind-erasing drugs for no reason, after all. And the thing Rayya had always loved about heroin was the way it eliminated her from consciousness—how it allowed her to discard her entire identity, as if her “self” were some heavy old overcoat she didn’t need to wear anymore and could just throw to the floor in a crumpled heap. The only problem with heroin was that you had to come back from the high. You had to wake up, stand up, put the overcoat back on. That had always been heartbreaking for her.”
Source: All the Way to the River
“People don't stop being bullies when they grow up. They just dress differently to fool you.”
Source: Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally
“People don't suddenly just change, you just suddenly see the real them.”
“People don't suffer from Asperger's. They suffer because they're depressed from being beat up and left out all the time”
“People don’t talk about mercy very much these days—it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it exists and its power is quite extraordinary”
Source: At the Reunion Buffet
“People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolor left in the rain. To understand what anyone is saying to us we must separate these noises into words and the words into sentences so that we might in our turn issue a stream of mixed sounds in response. If what we say is suitably apt and amusing, the listener will show his delight by emitting a series of uncontrolled high-pitched noises, accompanied by sharp intakes of breath of the sort normally associated with a seizure or heart failure. And by these means we converse. Talking, when you think about it, is a very strange business indeed.”
Source: The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
“People don't tend to employ me. I'm the wrong personality type. Or rather, people do tend to employ me for a short time and then they sack me. A film broker once told me, as she terminated my contract, that I have a misleading sort of face.
"You're pretty", she complained. "Your features are symmetrical and there was an article in Grazia that says human beings are programmed to find those with symmetrical features more pleasing to they eye. So this isn't my fault, I was simply responding to a biological imperative. You've even teeth, so when you smile, you look...sweet, I suppose. But you're not, are you?"
"I hope not," I said.
"You see, there you go again. You're a smart-arse and you've no ability to filter your thoughts---"
"And my thoughts are often abrasive."
"Exactly."
"I'll just get my brushes and sponges and leave."
"If you would.”
Source: The Mystery of Mercy Close
“People don't tend to look at the small things. In my opinion, this may not always be the smartest thing to do.”
Source: The Storm
“People don’t think compassion and strength cohabit, but compassion feels good, builds brains, creates connection and stops war (inner and outer).
Now that is strength!”
Source: BIG: the practice of joy