P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.”
“People expect all women to react the same to pregnancy. But anyone who's been around pregnant women knows that it's not all cutesy and sweet. You spaz out and you're angry and you have tantrums.”
“People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.”
“People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.”
“People expect it to be easy because there you are, out there, doing the thing that you want and making lots of money out of it. But, you know, I'm not that smooth. I can get clumsy around certain people. Like if I were to sit down and think, 'OK, I'm really famous, how am I going to conduct myself in public?' I wouldn't know who that person would be! It would be a lot easier if I could, but I can't.”
“People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.”
“People expect me to be thin and perfect... I'm not.”
“People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.”
“People expect me to do the classics, and it is a lot like playing a favorite song.”
“People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.”
“People expect more and more every time.”
“People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos.”
“People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when ... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.”
Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash
“People expect some kinds of decisions from Putin that will help them see their own future. A significant part of the people that he relies on are quite content with him telling them that nothing is going to change. But that part of the elite that does want to see some changes and improvements are going to expect him to, in his next term, bring Russia back into the club of the great powers.”
“People Expect Something New From Me All The Time.And That's Good It Keeps Me On The Edge”
“People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you.”
“People expect the math to be simplified, but I want to surprise them right from the start. When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that's when things open up. That's exciting.”
“People expect their leaders to present and communicate a vision of a better way of being.”
Source: Business Leadership: The Key Elements
“People expect those in authority to take on big problems and to solve them. We had an opportunity to reform Social Security in a way that would have protected people's benefits and created a solvent system. Younger workers would be confident that the money they were putting into the system would be available to them when they retired. It was a missed opportunity. I regret that.”
“People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.”
“People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell - that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don't expect heaven and there will never be any hell.”
“People expect us to be a straight up dance band but there are many more elements to our sound that you really get to see during our live show and hear on our record 'See The Light.'”
“People expect you to be this weird cartoon sometimes when you're a musician. I hate that. I hate standing out. I hate people looking at me. I just want to be part of the crowd.”
“People expect you to be with stars like Beyoncé. Obviously she's amazing, but you can't get starstruck as there's too much build-up to it. It's like, 'Clear the corridor so she can walk down it!' And she's like some fembot. There's too much faff and you end up thinking, 'Who cares?' If I was chatting to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall about chickens I'd be much more excited, as I love him.”
“People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.”
“People expect you to follow their "rules", to fit in, to be like the others, and when you consciously choose not to and you follow your inner voice, you don't belong there anymore.”
Source: THE UNSTOPPABLE THIRST : El Camino de Santiago de Compostela An Alchemic Path Towards The Inner Self
“People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game.”
“People expect your life to change completely. The main difference is I can get work now. I can do my hobby as a job. It's great. It's a privilege. But in terms of the rest of the stuff, I still got all the same group of friends I always had. I don't do anything different. We still go to the same dirty bars and do the same things. So nothing really changes.”
“People expected something for nothing, that’s why they did nothing so beautifully these days.”
Source: Prison of Paradise
“People experience all kinds of prejudice because of all different parts of themselves. And that doesn't make one part more important than the other. We live in a society that does not openly accept every kind of human being. And so the result is when you are yourself and someone who's marginalized, it becomes a revolutionary act - just being comfortable in your own body and being comfortable speaking, sharing your ideas. It's really amazing and also, like, kind of sad.”
“People experience anger when their expectations around how they should be treated don’t align with their actual treatment (or when they expect a thing to happen based on some series of actions and it does not happen).”
Source: The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing
“People express is clearly the archetypical deregulation success story and the most spectacular of my babies. It is the case that makes me the proudest.”
“People express their feelings through crying or anger. We, Big Bang, express it through music.”
“People eyeing you as a potential leader tend to ask three questions: Are you committed? Do you care about me? Can I trust you?”
“People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but I didn't kill myself and now, thank God, I'm here.”
“People fail 2 ways: 1) don't know what to do 2) don't do what they know; therefore, great leaders must educate and inspire.”
“People fail because one of two reasons:
1: They don't know what to do to improve
2: They know what to do and simply aren't doing it
Either way you can take action and change your life.”
“People fail forward to success.”
Source: The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur
“People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.”
“People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.”
“People fall down, winners get up, and gold medal winners just get up faster!”
“People fall in and out of love all the time, and sometimes people have numerous loves throughout their lives. But you have two epic loves and no matter who you were with, I don't think you'd ever get over or forget the other.”
“People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.”
Source: The Peach Keeper: A Novel
“People fall in love and swear they are so sure, then they turn around and say it's over. I never trusted love to come any closer till the moment you were mine.”
“People fall in love because they don't know each other yet.”
“People fall in love for mysterious reasons.”
“People fall in love in mysterious ways. Maybe it's all part of a plan.”
“People fall in love more easily when they are already troubled by another emotion because we know that any intense emotional state greatly increases the risk of falling in love.”
Source: Hector and the Secrets of Love
“People fall in love with a person, not a gender or an age.”
“People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.”
Source: Dance Dance Dance