P Quotes
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“People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.”
“People from Europe and people from Africa encountered one another long before the invention of "Europe" and "Africa" and "white people" and "black people."”
“People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans."”
“People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the bands existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. Im sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared.”
“People from my first home say I'm brave. They tell me I'm strong. They pat me on the back and say, 'Way to go. Good job.' But the truth is, I am not really very brave; I am not really very strong; and I am not doing anything spectacular. I am simply doing what God has called me to do as a person who follows Him. He said to feed His sheep and He said to care for 'the least of these,' so that's what I'm doing, with the help of a lot people who make it possible and in the company of those who make my life worth living”
“People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.”
“People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.”
“People from other teams want to play in St. Louis and they're jealous that we're in St. Louis because the fans are unbelievable. So why would you want to leave a place like St. Louis to go somewhere else and make $3 or $4 more million a year? It's not about the money. I already got my money. It's about winning and that's it. It's about accomplishing my goal and my goal is to try to win. If this organization shifts the other way then I have to go the other way.”
“People from outer space they come up to me, they don't look like Doctor Spock, they don't look like Klingons, all that Star Trek jive. They look like Elvis.”
“People from pre-sexual revolution and even from the 60s and the birth of the gay movement still define gay as two men or two women having sex. Our generation defines it from a more emotional standpoint. To be gay means you are drawn to the same sex. But it's a part of who you are, an identity, not an act.”
“People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.”
“People from the country ought to be at the forefront of humankind's struggle for kindness and equality, and yet, the situation is quite the opposite.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“People from the military have been inside that thing. If I went back in time, I wouldn't necessarily be thinking geopolitically, but maybe they would. That has to be half the reason why they're funding us in the first place. Maybe there were earlier versions of history where Republicans didn't vote to pulp all those Andrew Jackson twenties and replace them with bills that had portraits of Reagan. Maybe in the first version of post-Point Zero history, insurgents in North and South Dakota didn't attempt to secede; maybe we weren't fighting enemies both here and in the Middle East. Or maybe there was a full-on civil war going on in the United States and the current state of affairs is an improvement. We don't know. We can't know. And we can't know the extent to which any of us, sitting here at this table, is responsible.”
Source: Version Control
“People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'”
“People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.”
“People from the past, have a tendency to walk back into the present, and run over the future.”
“People from the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles are starting to return home today. A natural gas well leak in the neighborhood has been permanently sealed. It had been releasing methane and other pollutants into the air for four months. Thousands of people have complained of respiratory illnesses and other problems.”
“People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.”
“People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'”
“People from the world's richest countries should be prepared to accept the burden of debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries, and should urge their leaders to fulfill the pledges made to reduce world poverty, especially in Africa, by the year 2015.”
Source: Insegnamenti di Benedetto XVI
“People frustrate us and let us down. Not because we aren't lovable, but because we rely on them to do our job of loving us. We must accept that our lovability and worth doesn't come from others. It comes from within.”
“People gain so much hope when they know they are not experiencing something alone.”
“People Gain your Loyalty and love when they can't get from the person whom they want part of their life.”
“People gamble to win which it is possible to win، but there are people who lose themselves without the possibility of winning.”
“People gather details and comparisons but it doesn't really bother me or land on me of any sort. I don't know if I was... Maybe I was influenced by them, maybe I wasn't, but I don't know. I was probably influenced by everything I've heard. So it doesn't bother me at all, but it doesn't sway me either.”
“People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon....This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us [Joshua 10:13]that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.”
“People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.”
“People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.”
Source: The Fun Parts: Stories
“People gave the heavens a voice, so they had something to ask for: a better harvest, a healthy child or a milder winter. God was hope, and mankind needed hope the way it needed warmth, food and ale.
But with hope came disappointment.
The downtrodden yearned for stories to explain their misfortunes, though what they really wanted was somebody to blame for their misery. It was impossible to set fire to the blight that had ruined your crops, but a blight was easily summoned by a witch, at which point any poor woman would do.”
Source: The Devil and the Dark Water
“People gave up too soon on dreams and hope, but both were there, if you kept your eyes open. With that truth in mind, she returned to the world only to find her own eyes were so tear-filled, she might as well have been submerged fifty feet underwater. “Yes, I will marry you, John,” she heard herself say. “Of course, I will. You kidding me?” She laughed and wiped her eyes, no longer fifty feet underwater but skimming the surface of a great, churning sea. John reached up and kissed her, and they stayed like that for a minute, a month, a millennium.”
Source: The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
“People gave us a purpose. Something to do all day, every day. At the end, I suppose, you spend a lot of time thinking about that. It's harder to get by when getting by is all there is.”
Source: Sea of Rust
“People gave you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, "If this was the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with a million chickens on it." They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could. Marika was beckoning from the other side.”
Source: Lullabies for Little Criminals
“People generally are more interested in my work when they get to know me. Serious collectors like to get not just a painting but a piece of the artist.”
“People generally believe that as they were oppressed in the past they should have some privilege over others in the future.”
“People generally believe that stress is responsible for depletion, but apathy and uninspired systematic repetition are equally responsible. Or rather, systematic repetition produces as much or more stress and anxiety as anything else.”
Source: Re:
“People generally believe that which they wish to believe and disbelieve that which is unpleasant.”
Source: The philosophy of a peasant
“People generally cannot be trusted, especially in my profession where trust is such a rarity that it’s not worth wasting the time and effort searching for it.”
Source: Reviving Izabel
“People generally cannot tell their impact on other people. Only by observing how people react to us can we usually know what we send out into the world.”
Source: Geboor: Spiritual Fiction
“People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.”
Source: The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself
“People generally despise where they flatter.”
“People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.”
“People generally don’t suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who’ve endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive cataclysm of the soul.
The Moral Injury, New York Times. Feb 17, 2015”
“People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.”
“People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive cataclysm of the soul.”
“People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment.”
Source: Understanding Your Potential: Discovering the Hidden You
“People generally forget the things they are ashamed of, but no one ever forgets an insult.”
Source: Palace Intrigue
“People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“People generally have sex fairly young, and probably younger than they should be having it.”
“People generally have the idea that Donald Trump is a great communicator. And the press has acknowledged this guy has extraordinary communication skills. I think what doesn't come through is his humility. I know some people might laugh at that comment, and he likes promoting his brand. But at times he can be extremely humble. He likes people and wants to help people.”
“People generally have three reactions to the gospel, to hearing the name of Jesus; they either are drawn to it like fireflies drawn to a flame, they run away from it for fear that the light will expose their own sin and shame, or they try to put out the light like someone throwing something at a lamp to break it.”