P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People have called Christopher Columbus horrible, racist, a psycho-maniac killer and a slave owner.”
“People have called me fake, but personally, I don't think I'm fake because I'm so insincere.”
“People have called me Superman my whole life. In various sports, that seems to be the common theme. My favorite superhero is actually the Incredible Hulk. He's the only superhero that can't die.”
“People have choices in this life. They should exercise them responsibly.”
“People have committed suicide because of their failure to realize the passions for love , power , fame , revenge . Cases of suicide because of a lack of sexual satisfaction are virtually nonexistent.”
Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
“People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really.”
“People have confused playing devil's advocate with being intelligent.”
“People have criticized me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are.”
“People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.”
Source: Purple Hibiscus: A Novel
“People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that the seats in the theaters have been made to transform people's minds to lazy minds.”
“People have defining moments, i suppose, especially when they're children.”
Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition
“People have demons. And those demons have a meaning specific to that person. Sins, addictions, other failures and assorted traumas… sources of torment bodied forth.”
Source: In Limbo
“People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.”
“People have died from hiccups, you know.”
Source: Hay Fever - A light comedy
“People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.”
“People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.”
“People have different goals, when you start out making a movie. If the goal is darkness and destruction and despair, it's not like, "Hey, let's go to set, and then let's hit the bar afterwards. Let's jaunt into London and pick up some Chinese food." No, you go home from set and you go fight at the gym, and then you go to sleep. You stay in it. You never excuse yourself, you never take it easy on yourself, you never eat good food.”
“People have different ideas about what's brave. You did the brave thing, because the brave thing is doing what your Knowing tells you to do. You don't ask others what's brave, you feel and know what's brave. What you know to do might be the opposite of what others are telling you to do. It takes special bravery to honor yourself when the crowd is pressuring you not to. [...]
Sometimes being brave requires letting the crowd think you're a coward. Sometimes being brave means letting everyone down but yourself.”
Source: Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life
“People have different ideas of who I am. And I think because I'm very private, people make up the strangest ideas of who and why and what.”
“People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down.”
“People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.”
“People have different interpretations of "urgent".”
“People have different personalities when they're drunk or take heroin, or whatever drugs.”
“People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.”
“People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.”
“People have different ways of interpreting history.”
“People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.”
“People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists.”
“People have doubted me and criticized me my whole life, and that's why I'm the way I am.”
“People have enough ideas. The real question is "Which ideas are you going to use?".”
“People have enough problems in their lives; try not to be one of them.”
“People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice.”
“People have every right to be offended -- but that doesn't mean they get to take away your right to offend.”
“People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.”
“People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.”
“People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.”
“People have explored these questions ['Why am I here?', 'What is life about?'] in poems, not that they found their answers, but in reading [poems], I think, you find a certain beauty in the questioning, and that is then poetry.”
“People have faith in 'faith' and largely forget that our confidence is not in the power of faith but in the Person and work of the Savior, Jesus Christ.”
“People have fallen in love with words and lost the world. It’s time to regain it.”
“People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“People have far more power than they realize, if they would only choose to use it.”
Source: Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files
“People have foolishly mistaken equality for sameness. Equality of the genders means that both have equal value and worth, and one is not better than the other. But it doesn't mean we're all exactly the same. And many of us who still believe in gender separation say, 'Vive la difference!”
“People have forever been interested in twins.”
“People have forgotten how to tell a story.”
“People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.”
“People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.”
“People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.”
“People have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves. Finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?”