P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People get upset and it becomes an excuse to treat other people a certain way,but if you really step back, you realize what you've left behind.”
“People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns.”
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things.”
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.”
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“People get very creative if you include them.”
“People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization.”
“People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.”
“People get very trapped where they are. When they hear "fashion" they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist. If you can bring your own concept or your viewpoint and translate it not down but out, then you're really successful in the truest sense.”
“People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.”
“People get way too much credit at funerals.”
“People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.”
“People get work done, not buildings, not staffs in a generic sense, and not plans, but people”
“People getting along doesn't sell very well in the news. I find that to be deeply depressing. I don't even talk about it on stage, because it would take too long to explain.”
“People getting ready to go to jobs that they don’t like, jobs that are making them sick. You see when you are not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide. When you have some goal out here that you are stretching for and reaching for that takes you out of your comfort zone, you’ll find out some talents and abilities you have that you didn’t know you have.”
“People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.”
“People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.”
Source: What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
“People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus]...this fool wishes
to reverse the entire science of astronomy”
“People give ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon. Whoever wishes to appear clever must devise some new system, which of all systems is of course the very best. This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but the sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, not the earth.”
Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther
“People give flowers as present because flowers contain true meaning of love. Anyone who tries to posses a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower in the field, you'll keep it forever. That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why i will never lose you.”
“People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of love. Anyone tries to possess a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower on a field, you will keep it forever, because the flower is part of the evening and the sunset and the smell of damp earth and the clouds on the horizon.”
Source: Brida
“People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it.”
“People give me looks of pity and ask me why I want to wallow in my disconnection from a very connected world. It is simple. The world seems way too connected to me now. It seems to be ruining the lives of teenagers and bringing out the bestial cruelty in those who can hide their vileness under the mask of some idiotic pseudonym. I like to sit alone and think about things. Solitude is as precious as coin silver and it takes labor to attain it.”
Source: A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
“People give me money and I don't know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.”
“People give me such a hard time because I don't wear dresses. What's that got to do with anything?”
“People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.”
Source: Get a Life
“People give out compliments because it's polite.”
“People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.”
“People give the words life through their own adoration or relationship to the work, and that's true of everything. You can't divorce critical or fan reaction. Once it exists, you forget that the words are arbitrary, or you start to remove value.”
“People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.”
Source: Miles Errant
“People give up control because they don't want to make mistakes.”
“People give up on each other long before they give up on themselves, and they do that, too.”
“People give up. People settle. People persevere. And you can do all three if you're smart enough.”
Source: Misadventurous
“People give up the earth for beauty.”
“People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.”
“People give 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 were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about 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.”
Source: Lullabies for Little Criminals
“People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.'”
“People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren't people any more, they're just ssoul-less sheep.”
“People go away and they don't come back.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.”
“People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.”
“People go entire lives without figuring out exactly what they want from life. You already have it, and the future you and your dad have planned out for you in going to take it away from you.”
Source: Let's Get Lost
“People go farther than they thought they could when someone else thinks they can.”
Source: Encouragement Changes Everything: Bless and Be Blessed
“People go for help, but their lives don't get better because of those [psychiatric] drugs. They get worse. They feel numb and they're told that's a good thing. It's how you degrade a society - by drugging the piss out of it.”
“people go insane without fairy tales”
“People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.”
“People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.”
“People go into things for the wrong reasons.”
“People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.”