P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People have to make their own decisions about their lives.”
“People have to pay so much money to the banks that they don't have enough money to buy the goods and services they produce. So there's not much new investment, there's not new employment (except minimum-wage "service" jobs), markets are shrinking, and people are defaulting. So many companies can't pay their banks.”
“People have to realize that the air we breathe and the water we drink come from the ocean and will go back to the ocean one way or another, no matter how far away we may be from it. It's a perpetual cycle.”
“People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”
Source: Diary: A Novel
“People have to recognize that it’s going to take some time for trust to be built not only between Democrats and Republicans, between Congress and the White House, between the House and the Senate. You know, we’ve had a dysfunctional political system for a while now.”
“People have to respect intellectual property.”
“People have to see it for what it is, but they would be so shocked to know two simple things that I just really never shared with anyone, but I spank my child at times. He didn't move a muscle, not one inch, and he didn't drop one tear. I tell you that and you are probably like, "Wow, how is that even possible?" But little details like that is not what people are able to see, and that makes the world of difference to the outcome of the situation.”
“People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.”
Source: The Best of Willa Cather
“People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.”
“People have to stop employing illegal immigrants.”
“People have to stop saying that just because someone is an anti-gay activist they might be gay. They're DEFINITELY GAY!!”
“People have to struggle to live and, frequently, to live in an undignified way. One cause of this situation, in my opinion, is in the our relationship with money, and our acceptance of its power over ourselves and our society.”
Source: Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion
“People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.”
“People have to take seriously the threat coming from asteroids and what it represents. As Chelyabinsk reminded us, we have to take asteroids as a serious scientific concern, as well as a concern for protection of mankind and survival of the planet. This is not some kook policy. It's the protection of the interests of every single individual life on this planet.”
“People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.”
Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
“People have to understand how important it is for the players to let off steam, switch off and relax.”
“People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18 I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.”
“People have to understand that they can reject technology. They can turn off their cell phone. They can stop looking at their e-mail. It's there if they want it. It's not being forced on them.”
“People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.”
“People have to understand what my game is. It's not all about numbers. There's a bigger picture here. I don't create off the dribble. I rely on my teammates; my role is to set screens and get rebounds”
“People have to want to change before there's any chance of helping them do so.”
“People have told me 'Betty, Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with old friends...' .. At my age, if I wanted to keep in touch with old friends, I'd need a Ouija board”
“People have told me, "Go write your book," and I said, "OK.”
“People have told me I look like Gordon Lightfoot.”
“People have told me, really more times than I can remember, ever since I was a small boy, how lucky I was, but I have always felt as I were suffering in Hell. It has seemed to me in fact that those who called me lucky were incomparably more fortunate than I.”
Source: No Longer Human
“People have told me, really more times than I can remember, ever since I was a small boy, how lucky I was, but I have always felt as if I were suffering in Hell. It has seemed to me in fact that those who called me lucky were incomparably more fortunate than I.”
Source: No Longer Human
“People have told me that everything about me, every facet of my life, psyche, experiences, dreams, and fears, are laid out explicitly in my writing, that from the corpus of my work I can be absolutely and precisely inferred. This is true.”
Source: Vintage PKD
“People have told me that Ive helped them feel confident, like they can say things they want to say. They can talk about feminism in class without people calling them a lesbian. Thats so amazing that I can make someone feel like that.”
“People have told me to have sex when i feel the desire to, but right now i have no desire to pull my pants down in front of a girl.”
“People have told us that accessing all of their Google stuff with one account makes life a whole lot easier. But we've also heard that it doesn't make sense for your Google+ profile to be your identity in all the other Google products you use.”
“People have too many problems during the day; they don't want to think.”
“People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human - in the fact that so much of what we desire for our happiness and need for our survival comes at a heavy cost.”
Source: A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder
“People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human - in the fact that so much of what we desire for our happiness and need for our survival comes at a heavy cost. We kill to eat, we cut down trees to build our homes, we exploit other people and the earth. Sacrifice - of nature, of the interests of others, even of our earlier selves - appears to be an inescapable part of our condition, the unavoidable price of all our achievements. A successful ritual is one that addresses both aspects of our predicament, recalling us to the shamefulness of our deeds at the same time it celebrates what the poet Frederick Turner calls "the beauty we have paid for with our shame." Without the double awareness pricked by such rituals, people are liable to find themselves either plundering the earth without restraint or descending into self-loathing and misanthropy. Perhaps it's not surprising that most of us today bring one of those attitudes or the other to our conduct in nature.”
Source: A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder
“People have trained you to care about how they think, because it's important to most people who are living conditionally for you to create conditions that they can live with.”
“People have tried all kinds of ways to fix things, like electing Obama and having a debate about decreasing the power of corporations. Then the Supreme Court gives them personhood with the Citizens United decision. You realize that no matter what you do, who you elect, how wonderful your article is, how eloquently you speak on CNN, none of it will make a difference. Ultimately, the only choice is a revolution that pulls off a soft regime change.”
“People have tried to control other people by trapping them with debt. A loan can become a harmful and dangerous weapon.”
“People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.”
“People have tried to put me in a box my whole life. I'm too tall. I'm too pretty. Too Miss USA. Wonder Woman. Prettiest woman in the world. And all of that. It doesn't matter because I've gone my own way and have tried to approach my career from a gut level, doing what I thought was right.”
“People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.”
“People have two sides, and a person first becomes appealing when you discover both of those sides - and worlds work exactly the same way.”
“People have unlatched the energies of the worldly self (jiv shakti), but they have not unlatched the energies of Real Self (shiv shakti).”
“People HAVE used me. But it don't matter I don't let it change me. – Mohammed Ali”
Source: Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts
“People have value and are important. Big or small they are important.”
“People have very specific opinions of comedy. Slapstick was an art form in the '20s and the lowest form of show business in the '50s. Who's right, who's wrong? Who's an idiot, who's not?”
“People have very strong opinions about how their national icons should be played.”
“People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.”
“PEOPLE HAVE WANTED TO narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There’ll be tellings as long as there are any of us here, until the stars disappear one by one like turned-out lights.”
“People have wondered by what fit of imagination, George Sand, when telling such a wholesome story of country life, should evoke the ghastly vision of Holbein’s Dance of Death.”
Source: George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings
“People have worried about things for centuries, but it has never once had a positive effect on the outcome of a situation.”
Source: The Anxiety Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Deal with Anxiety and Worry
“People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.”