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 want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want to buy a quarter-inch hole!”
“People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.”
“People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the depths, and that frightens them. I know; I know.”
Source: Scented gardens for the blind: a novel
“People dream, despite whatever supposed realities may be before them.”
Source: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
“People dream of making the virtuous powerful, so they can depend upon them. Since they cannot do that, people choose to make the powerful virtuous, glorifying in becoming victimized by them.”
“People dreamed. People left. And they all came back.”
Source: Where Things Come Back
“People dress up for funerals. Why not dress up to celebrate that you’re alive?”
“People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.”
Source: Alias Grace: A Novel
“People dressed up like me, at the comic-con in San Antonio. It's very rewarding.”
“People dressing up as you is always a weird experience. Or sometimes you get the odd person who genuinely believes that you are your character. I've had that happen where I'm like, "No. No. No. Call me Sophie. It's OK." And they are like, "No my lady. I can't!" And it's really weird. But some people just find it difficult to separate that kind of thing.”
“People drift apart after falling in love and getting married because they compartmentalize their lives – one part that was before the marriage and the other that is after the marriage. So, the event of a marriage places a full stop; it ends one phase of the relationship and begins another. This full stop is unnecessary. In Life, everything new soon starts seeming and feeling old; romance then receives lower priority because the courtship is over, the marriage is done, dusted – and in some cases, sadly, dead too. That’s why people who fall in love, fall out of love too. But what if you imagine that the marriage never happened? Won’t the loving be continuous then? Great companionships thrive when you never let marriage take centerstage. Treat marriage, if at all you must marry, like just another date in your courtship calendar. That’s how the loving is ongoing, it is flowing.”
“People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.”
“People drink and do drugs for a reason. Cause it makes them feel good - until it doesn't anymore.”
“People drink because they want the happiness that comes with mental oblivion. There is another way – less damaging, more healthy, less up and down, more stable.”
Source: Purnima
“People drink democracy in a glass of tea
but night falls, again.”
Source: Synecdoche
“People drink to numb the pain and suffering. I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.”
“People drown, quietly, before our eyes, all the time.”
“People dull their wits with gibberish,
and cannot use their ears and eyes.
Many fail to grasp what they have seen,
and cannot judge what they have learned,
although they tell themselves they know.”
Source: Fragments
“People dying is normal, people being afraid is not normal.”
“People dying of COVID can be 'dying' for a long time. People dying of cancer often are dying for a long time. But with cancer, and other terminal illnesses, it's acceptable to move from treatment into hospice...We give them morphine...we meet death half-way.”
Source: When We Lost Touch
“People earnestly say to me here, 'Mr Knight, we have cellphones now, and you're going to really enjoy them.' That's their enticement for me to rejoin society. 'You're going to love it,' they say. I have no desire. And what about a text message? Isn't that just using a telephone as a telegraph? We're going backwards.”
Source: The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
“People easily become familiar with what you teach them practically than what you tell them verbally. Action fixes images in their minds and they can carry those images for a long period.”
Source: Leaders' Ladder
“People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!”
“People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.”
“People eat meat and think they will become strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.”
“People eating the western diet of heavily processed food, of lots of meat and added sugar and added fat, and very little whole grains and fruits and vegetables.Populations who eat that way have seriously high incidences of chronic diseases.”
“people either affect you for the better or infect you for the worse.”
“People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive edifices with gainful impression. The later by their vices, push people into negative huts with painful oppression.”
Source: Leaders' Ladder
“People either buy nuclear power, nuclear reactors from outside, and don't train their own men, or they just don't go into nuclear power at all, they are so afraid of it.”
“People either fail in education or pass in education and fail in knowledge or pass in knowledge and fail in implementation. The one who crosses all these phases is successful.”
Source: US Staffing Industry 2020
“People either get this or they don't. Everyone's destiny is different. It is not so about what we carry but how we carry it that defines each one of us. There are lots of 'uncommon' factors contributing to a person not achieving his goals. We only talk about the common ones like lack of focus, commitment and all. You will agree with me that as complex as the world now is so is the human mind; if a person can learn to think in the simplest of manners he is more likely to reach his goals. No one is an exception, before you point a finger, ask, "Will my criticism contribute to the complexity in that person's life or or empower him?" Discipline nowadays is not solely based on your ability to take action but on your ability to step into greatness in the simplest of ways”
“People either hate me or dislike me - but I realized that people aren't against you, they are for themselves. We're all prejudiced in favor of ourselves.”
“People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.”
“People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all.”
“People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.”
Source: Banksy: wall and piece
“People either love me or they think I'm obnoxious. I get that.”
“People either make things or they don't. Inspiration is a poster.”
“People either weigh you down or give you wings.”
Source: Her Daughter's Dream
“People elect the President for reasons that have nothing to do with his ability to be president.”
“People elected Donald Trump because he acts decisively. He fired James Comey. He didn't fire the entire FBI. If there's something there, the FBI is going to continue to investigate it.”
“People elude me by halves. I see only the good, then only the bad. I never see them whole. I have no explanation for this. No explanation for the coolness that stretches out between my periods of warmth, the disaffection between my periods of affection. I touch people when I talk to them. I put my hand on a newcomer's knee, or hand, or arm, and immediately the new person is drawn into an intimacy that I cannot sustain. People are charmed by my warmth and disconcerted to discover that it doesn't last.”
Source: Small Change
“People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.”
“People empty me. I have to get away to refill.”
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch
“People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience...I want to give them two hours of just pow.”
“People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.”
“People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.”
Source: The Art of Invective: Selected Non-Fiction 1953–1994
“People engage in a lot of self-deception,” she said with a firm grip on his arm to keep her balance. “They have this need to write books and get a PhD and become professors and noted intellectuals. But almost everyone’s mediocre. They’re intelligent enough to recognize genius and excellence, and with a bit of luck they may achieve something above average themselves. But the vast majority of people are middling. And they don’t want to accept that. Instead, they buy houses and build patios and have children, which serves as a watertight alibi. I never got to write that book, they say. Because I have the house and the patio and the children to take care of. And besides, they like it just fine at work. Next summer, they’re going on an extended vacation to France. They say they love to read, but how much do they really read? A book a month, if that. They say they wish they had more time to read. They say they wish they had more time to write. That they would love to write that book, but time. There’s not enough time.”
Source: Collected Works: A Novel
“People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.”
Source: Collected Works
“People enjoy convincing others, if others are wrong they convince them towards right, if others are already right they still want to convince them towards wrong.”
“People enjoy inventing slogans which violate basic arithmetic but which illustrate “deeper” truths, such as “1 and 1 make 1” (for lovers), or “1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1” (the Trinity). You can easily pick holes in those slogans, showing why, for instance, using the plus-sign is inappropriate in both cases. But such cases proliferate. Two raindrops running down a window-pane merge; does one plus one make one? A cloud breaks up into two clouds -more evidence of the same? It is not at all easy to draw a sharp line between cases where what is happening could be called “addition”, and where some other word is wanted. If you think about the question, you will probably come up with some criterion involving separation of the objects in space, and making sure each one is clearly distinguishable from all the others. But then how could one count ideas? Or the number of gases comprising the atmosphere? Somewhere, if you try to look it up, you can probably fin a statement such as, “There are 17 languages in India, and 462 dialects.” There is something strange about the precise statements like that, when the concepts “language” and “dialect” are themselves fuzzy.”
Source: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid