P Quotes
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“People have a seed to success within them. Most never find it and therefore fail to reach their potential. Occasionally, a leader discovers it and helps that individual develop it. For both, they now can fulfill the purpose for which they are born.”
“People have a sense of humor, even if it's not a good one, and everybody has stakes.”
“People have a tendency to be curious. They ask questions all to find the answers disturbing to their limitless mind and unbelievable because they’ve lived a life without detail or disruption..
Be discerning about who you share the details of your being with.
Your peace is worth it and deserves more loyalty than someone’s curiosity.”
Source: The Affidavit of Niedria Dionne Kenny
“People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It's an unbearable condition.”
“People have a tendency to cast me more as lawyers and doctors and just rich guys, rich assholes basically, a lot of rich assholes. That's what I'm normally seen as, you know.”
“People have a tendency to either fundamentalize things or philosophize things - those who fundamentalize things, boast about heritage, and those who philosophize things, boast about intellect. I say, neither heritage nor intellect is to be placed at the supreme altar of the human mind, instead what we must place in our mind's altar is people.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.”
“People have a tendency to sometimes doubt when you tell them what you are going to do. But they can never deny the things you actually do.”
Source: Mother of Darkwaters: Book One of the Vessel Series
“People have a tendency to think I was part of Warhol's Factory - I never was. I've always been independent.”
“People have a tremendous range of options of how they can behave. There's so much in people.”
“People have a very limited idea of what being creative is - playing the guitar or the flute or writing poetry - so people go on writing rubbish in the name of poetry. You have to find out what you can do and what you cannot do. Everybody cannot do everything. You have to search and find your destiny. You have to grope in the dark, I know. It is not very clear-cut what your destiny is, but that's how life is. And it is good that one has to search for it - in the very search, something grows.”
“People have a very proprietary relationship with Superman. It's important to respect the iconography and the canon, but at the same time, you have to tell a story.”
“People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.”
“People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do with.”
“People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be - not what you nag them to be.”
“people have a way of laughing at our deams until we make them come true.”
“People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.”
“People have a whole lot more choices than they've had in the past, and I have only earned the right to be considered - every day I have to earn the right to be chosen.”
“People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.”
“People have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.”
Source: Public paper of the presidents of the United States
“People have accused me at times of having too big of a heart.But I have to also to say I must keep the people of my state safe. So we take a pause [in taking refugees].”
“People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.”
“People have accused me of many things: racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, intolerance, anti-Darwinism and anti-homosexualism [sic]. Well, I tell those people that there was someone else who was accused of things...our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I rest my case.”
“People have accused me of only working with good companies. No I don't. I work with some very dysfunctional companies or unbelievably dysfunctional organizations. The people that bring me in know what they're doing won't work for the future. They know they want to change and they want to change for the right reasons. They believe what I believe and that's why they called me.”
“People have all these opinions on what happens when we die and stand at the front gates of Heaven. People think we'll be asked if we were holy, if we were righteous, if we did good deeds. But I think we'll be asked if we loved a wild love, if we loved with all our soul, if we knew a love worth living for. Have you known a wild love? Have you told someone everything in your heart? That's what they'll ask us.”
“People have all these preconceived notions about magicians, like that they're lonely and bitter or they're socially awkward people. I don't know what magician hurt all these people, but I'm constantly having to overcome all these stereotypes. So, no. I'm sure there are just as many magicians who are lonely and bitter as there are comedians, lawyers, or any profession.”
“People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.”
“People have allowed me into their homes, through my words and my music.”
“People have already dirtied my name too much.”
“People have always been animals when it comes to sex. But since the Internet, it's become really out of control, in my opinion.”
“People have always been fascinated by people in the public eye and what they wear, what they are doing, but not in a tabloid way. Tabloid celebrities are a turnoff. A lot of celebrities...you wonder why they are celebrities.”
“People have always been hiding their problems behind an era like a playboy magazine under a bed. It’s always the century that is to blame until it becomes history. And blaming it, people would forget a bit that it is them who are meant to shape it.”
Source: As the moon began to rust
“People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.”
“People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously.”
“People have always been telling me what I can't do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That's been one of my driving forces all my life.”
“People have always been vain. Can you imagine what it was like when some guy invented the first mirror? Maidens probably spent all day and night just staring at their own reflection in the dim candle light of their drafty castle tower, back when the first mirrors were cutting edge technology.”
Source: The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance
“People have always believed in miracles... It's in their nature to believe things can always get better in some mysterious way. If everything else fails, higher forces will help them when the time comes. And people do that because they know the very essence of life is...that from the very beginning, at any point...everything can go wrong.”
Source: Daytripper
“People have always called me an inspiration, but I’m not. I do sweat the small stuff, just like everyone else. I just happen to also have to sweat the big, life-or-death stuff.”
Source: Diary of a Dying Girl
“People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.”
“People have always expected the end of the world to be a dramatic, thematic event: war, disease, a sudden explosion. But what if the end of the world has already occurred? What if our final demise happened slowly, secretly … and we’ve been oblivious to it all?”
Source: The Vestige
“People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.”
“People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.”
Source: American Letters: 1927-1947
“People have always had a fascination with the supernatural going back to the beginning of time and with vampires in particular. This phenomenon is not new.”
“People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.”
“People have always had this craving to have someone tell them the future. Long ago, kings would hire people to read sheep guts. There's always been a market for people who pretend to know the future. Listening to today's forecasters is just as crazy as when the king hired the guy to look at the sheep guts.”
“People have always imagined, or pretended to imagine, that I seek to provoke hostile attention. This is rubbish. What I want is to be accepted by other people without bevelling down my individuality to please them — because if I do that, all the attention, all the friendship, all the hospitality that I receive is really for somebody else of the same name.”
Source: Resident Alien: The New York Diaries
“People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.”
“People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.”
“People have always said I have an old soul, and all my best friends are 10 to 15 years my senior.”
“People have always said since TV was invented what a cultural wasteland it is but I think it is the worst and the best. It is the golden age of television.”