P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.”
“People have multiple identities.”
“People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and Religions which, stated as propositions, appear neither true nor false to modern logicians- meaningless propositions that look meaningful to the linguistically naive.”
Source: Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World
“People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.”
“People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them.”
“People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.”
“People have never lost what they think they have.”
Source: Parents and children
“People have no clue that they’re in prison, they don’t know that there is an ego, they don’t know the distinction.”
“People have no confidence that Washington, both sides of aisle, are coming together to try and do what's right for the economy.”
“People have no discrepancy for me or my lyrics or the song.”
“People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected.”
“People have no idea how much work it is for a man to produce an ejaculation. You have this seminal vesicle churning out this fluid, the prostate gland producing an alkaline solution. It's like having five iron chefs in your crotch working to cook up this stuff.”
“People have no idea how true the promise of Allah is. Put your trust in Allah, and He will see you through.”
“People have no idea what it's like to be that person in the arena. I know, no offense, but a lot of people on television, talking heads and analysts and consultants and strategists and they all have their opinions and they tell what a candidate ought to do, what he should have done, what he could have done. But they've never been in at arena.”
“People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.”
Source: The Seven Storey Mountain
“People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.”
“People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable.”
“People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.”
Source: Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife
“People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it.”
“People have not changed. The media and its love for the fashion world behind the scenes has changed, giving people more access to changing tastes and opinions everywhere. There has been a shift in the last few years, with the new exposure of personal styles on blogs and Instagram and websites, so people are more interested now in showing their own fashion sense and expressing their own style without copying an entire look from an ad campaign. Because of that, stores need to move toward more personal edits and styling.”
“People have not made the connection that the more of us there are, the more greenhouse gases go into the atmosphere. The Chinese have. They, unlike us, have a population policy. The right wingers just don't understand that the country they're in is probably the most overpopulated in the world, the one doing most of the destruction, and the one with horrendously bad leadership.”
“People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.”
Source: The Western Lands
“People have notions of what a wife's role should be in this process, and it's been a traditional one of blind adoration. My model is a little different - I think most real marriages are.”
Source: Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words
“People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures.—You might teach making of shoes by lectures!”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Vol 2
“People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.”
Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals
“People have now been absorbing only that they agree with. You know, part of it is if you're liberal, you consume liberal information. If you're a conservative, you consume conservative information. And there's a certain stridency in both that you know everything, and if somebody doesn't agree with you, you think they don't know what they're talking about, and you become intolerant.”
“People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.”
“People have offered me opportunities in exchange for sleeping with them. But it's not 1952 anymore.”
“People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.”
“People have often asked me, what is fear? Is it the feeling of dread? The sweat of unease? Or is it the knowledge of the unknown future?
No. It is none of these.
Fear is as much alive as it is a soul.
Fear feeds on joy.
It lives in us all.
It is something that can never be cast out of us, as a landlord evicts tenants from a house.
If you go on and tell me, that fear doesn’t live in you.
I would simply turn around and tell you to jump off a tower.
Then we will see who is in the right.”
Source: Dusk: Knytehood
“People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.”
“People have often assumed that for music to be emotionally powerful it has to come directly from a human hand, whereas I disagree with that, and enjoy proving these people wrong. This project is an excellent way of exploring that area more.”
“People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice.”
“People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.”
Source: Big Stone Gap: A Novel
“People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.”
“People have one of two extreme reactions to my book. They either throw it across the room, or they rush out and buy 10 copies. The message I'm giving out, that what we think about becomes true for us, and negative thoughts mean good things don't happen, isn't always easy for some people to take.”
“People have one thing in common; they are all different.”
“People have one year after the wedding to send a gift. Thank-you notes must be written immediately. If you don't receive an acknowledgment within three months, phone and ask if it was received. If the bride and groom are embarrassed, fine. They deserve to be.”
“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”
Source: The Social Significance of the Modern Drama
“People have only one way to be.”
“People have only two or three adjectives to describe people in the public eye. And that's okay. As long as those adjectives aren't train wreck, mess, terrible.”
“People have opinions about everything and especially when you get into that world of animal rights or tree rights or whatever rights, they all have an opinion.”
“People have outs for numbers of episodes, usually, written into their contract. Some studios will say, "We're going to let Julia Louis-Dreyfus off of Veep to do three episodes, but not three episodes of the same show." But, that's all business affairs, so I'm talking over my head here.”
“People have paid for content. They always have.”
“People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed through the prison gates and found themselves in a square. They are now free and they don't know where to go.”
“People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.”
“People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care.”
“People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.”
“People have power and it is very important to respect that. Everybody's had thousands of lifetimes, and who knows what anyone has learned in a lifetime ... respect not fear.”