P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.”
“People got out of the way for Cam. He was like a hot Moses, parting a sea of drunk college students.”
“People got so many questions. Why you got so many questions when my whole life is on the Internet? If you wanna know about me, you can go on the Internet and look at my YouTube videos. I used to drop one every day. You can go on my YouTube channel, go on my Vine, my Twitter.”
“People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world.”
Source: Tuck Everlasting
“People got to realize that the owners who been paying me are a lot richer than I am. It's not like I was born rich; I had to play basketball to make this type of money.”
“People got very wimpy about 'Scarface' very quickly.”
“People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made.”
“People gravitate to possibility thinkers. That creates win-win scenarios all day long.”
Source: Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best
“People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.”
“People gravitate toward products that are bold, but instantly comprehensible: Most Advanced Yet Acceptable--MAYA.”
Source: Hit Makers: Why Things Become Popular
“People gravitate towards their own era, nostalgia therapy is a real thing that's being tinkered with.”
“People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had”
Source: The Razorland Trilogy
“People grew up on the animated movie. Bill Condon is Bill Condon. And nobody does those movies better than Disney does.”
“People grow and change and develop through their experiences, so ultimately you have to go with what's in the room - the feeling you get from them and what the camera picks up.”
“People grow apart, and sometimes, there nothing anyone can do about it.”
Source: The Future of Us
“People grow from failure. They grow from adversity. They grow from pain.”
Source: Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
“People grow up by living.”
Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic
“People grow up learning to be silent about their sexuality, so where are they going to learn to talk about it when they are in a relationship? Shame, guilt, ignorance, reservation, prudishness, all kinds of different cultural systems and social stereotypes shroud sexuality in secrecy and in silence. And there's the romantic notion. "If I say in the beginning, that I am missing something, you are instantly going to think that means you are not enough."”
“People grow. It's okay to grow. Some people find that difficult to grasp.”
“People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.”
“People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become satisfied merely with seeing what is said, without going any further. Review and attention, and even forming a judgment, becomes fatigue; and to lay anything before them that requires it, is putting them quite out of their way.”
Source: The Works of Joseph Butler ... To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author
“People had a drive to immortalize their past, even the evil stuff, like Abu Ghraib or the Holocaust. They liked to take pictures, keep journals, because they believed in what they were doing. No one, Naomi had learned, did evil without believing it was right at the time. Maybe this was why it was nearly impossible to talk them out of it?”
Source: The Butterfly Girl
“People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person.”
Source: My Story
“People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.”
Source: My Story
“People had always amazed him, he began. But they amazed him more since the sickness. For as long as the two of them had been together, he said, Gary’s mother had accepted him as her son’s lover, had given them her blessing. Then, at the funeral, she’d barely acknowledged him. Later, when she drove to the house to retrieve some personal things, she’d hunted through her son’s drawers with plastic bags twist-tied around her wrists.
“…And yet,” he whispered, “The janitor at school--remember him? Mr. Feeney? --he’d openly disapproved of me for nineteen years. One of the nastiest people I knew. Then when the news about me got out, after I resigned, he started showing up at the front door every Sunday with a coffee milkshake. In his church clothes, with his wife waiting out in the car. People have sent me hate mail, condoms, Xeroxed prayers…”
What made him most anxious, he told me, was not the big questions--the mercilessness of fate, the possibility of heaven. He was too exhausted, he said, to wrestle with those. But he’d become impatient with the way people wasted their lives, squandered their chances like paychecks.
I sat on the bed, massaging his temples, pretending that just the right rubbing might draw out the disease. In the mirror I watched us both--Mr. Pucci, frail and wasted, a talking dead man. And myself with the surgical mask over my mouth, to protect him from me.
“The irony,” he said, “… is that now that I’m this blind man, it’s clearer to me than it’s ever been before. What’s the line? ‘Was blind but now I see…’” He stopped and put his lips to the plastic straw. Juice went halfway up the shaft, then back down again. He motioned the drink away. “You accused me of being a saint a while back, pal, but you were wrong. Gary and I were no different. We fought…said terrible things to each other. Spent one whole weekend not speaking to each other because of a messed up phone message… That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I’m fifty years old and there might be someone else out there. People waste their happiness--That’s what makes me sad. Everyone’s so scared to be happy.”
“I know what you mean,” I said.
His eyes opened wider. For a second he seemed to see me. “No you don’t,” he said. “You mustn’t. He keeps wanting to give you his love, a gift out and out, and you dismiss it. Shrug it off because you’re afraid.”
“I’m not afraid. It’s more like…” I watched myself in the mirror above the sink. The mask was suddenly a gag. I listened.
“I’ll give you what I learned from all this,” he said. “Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.”
Source: She’s Come Undone
“People had always dreamed of a unified world. We thought it would be a richer one. It wasn't. It meant that the Eskimo got educated and learned cost accountancy, but it didn't mean that the German learned to hunt whales with a spear. It meant everyone learned how to press buttons, and no one remembered how to dive for pearls.”
Source: Strata
“People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm : all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable than others.”
Source: Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy
“People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.”
“People had been scammed by their own politicians, mainstream media, and Big Pharma. Not for money this time, but for their health, and perhaps their souls.”
Source: The Pures
“People had been shitting on me for having the wrong name/race/religion and socioeconomic status since as far back as I could remember, but my life had been so easy in comparison to my parents’ own upbringing that they genuinely couldn’t understand why I didn’t wake up singing every morning.”
Source: A Very Large Expanse of Sea
“People had been so attached to the Diane [Cheers] character that audiences and producers found it difficult to think of me in any other terms. It took some time before people would consider me for other parts.”
“People had been trying to understand the universe through love ever since the beginning of time.”
Source: Brida
“People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
“People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. With the whole world property-lined and speed-limited and zoned and taxed and regulated, with everyone tested and registered and adressed and recorded. Nobody had left much room for adventure, except maybe the kind you could buy. [...] The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.”
“People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I never had children.”
“People had confused me with their silence and I had confused people with my resilience”
“People had considered this the most fearsome creature on the planet. The most vicious. The most predatory. Without any rivals. It could beat anything in the ocean, so, therefore, it qualified as the most feared of all beasts. Totally wrong. So I guess Moby Doll changed the world’s attitudes towards killer whales. Instead of seeing a killer—a savage monster like Moby Dick—the world met a cuddly companion, Moby Doll.”
Source: The Killer Whale Who Changed the World
“People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.”
Source: Nineteen Minutes: A novel
“People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.”
Source: White Noise
“People had said to me New York is kind of cutthroat and people walk past you on the street. I find it the opposite. I find that people want to talk.”
“People had so much respect for George Mitchell. They wanted to cooperate with him. I think that's a hallmark of a very good leader.”
“People had status as subjects of the colonial empire. Maybe not yet as citizens, with voting-rights, but certainly as subjects who were treated as equals by the institutions and the law. And that was an improvement. That is why the colonial justice system was constipated: people could suddenly go to the judge over a piece of land.”
“People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live.”
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“People had tell me the most personal things. People I'd never met before would say thing like "Oh, that was the summer I had an affair with my neighbor." The 1976 heatwave occupies a peculiar place in people's psyches.”
“People had their image of what a cowboy was, ... A lot of it was perpetuated by the media presentations of the cowboys in fiction and old Westerns. And because of the tenure of the times, African-Americans were left out. As a result, reality was distorted.”
“People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.”
“People had to be left to make their own mistakes, even if the rest of us could see quite clearly the dangers that lay ahead.”
Source: The Joy and Light Bus Company
“People had tried to reel Raphael in from his silence. Their attempts were precisely why he felt so uncomfortable. He did not want to be saved or included. He liked to listen. When he asked a question, it was because he wanted to know the answer. But then they turned it around to ask, “What about you?” and this bothered Raphael, who believed the speaker only returned the question out of manners and so was never a real inquiry. Raphael would be pressured to respond and endure the painful seconds of saying something someone did not want to hear. He would trace their faltering eyes, then his words would crumble into sand, and his listener would never notice because they were not interested in the first place.”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“People hand over the power to you withimmense faith. It's your job to ensure tough implementation of laws.”