P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People hold the reins of reform, not politicians.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“People honk at you if you meditate at the stop light.”
“People hook up. People don't hook up. I don't judge.”
“People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.”
“People: How many foreign languages do you speak?
Me: I speak the language of honesty, which seems quite foreign to many people.”
“People huddle together in doctrinaire herds, and the same jackasses who, without the slightest risk, now scream against racism are the same conformist personality types who would have carried torches in lynch mobs a century ago.”
“People hunger for more attention. Full attention will be the aphrodisiac of the future.”
“People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being.”
Source: Cosmopolis
“People hurt each other. That's what people do.”
“People hurt us, and unfortunately, we are bound to hurt others.”
“People hurt us, and unfortunately, we are bound to hurt others. It’s a vital part of the human experience.”
“People hurting us helps us to let go of wanting them to love us. It is the beginning of learning how to love purely.”
Source: Love's Longing
“People I admire have two qualities: a kind of simplicity, and generosity of spirit. It seems to me that the more impressive people are in what they have done, the simpler they tend to be in how they talk to you, or in what they say or write.”
“People I didn't know formed a circle around me, sheltering me from view. They escorted me safely back to our jurta, undetected. They didn't ask for anything. They were happy to help someone, to succeed at something, even if they weren't to benefit. We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean. I realized that if we boosted one another, maybe we'd get a little closer.”
Source: Between Shades of Gray
“People I don't know die all the time. If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.”
Source: Paper Towns
“People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because they haven't accomplished what they wanted to on the first go-round. They're willing to do it twenty times, if necessary. There's an illusion that the good people can easily do something, and it's not necessarily true. They're just determined to do it right. I was impressed by hearing one of the women at Radcliffe talk about writing a poem, how many revisions a single poem sometimes has to go through -- fifty or sixty revisions to come out with a poem sixteen lines long.”
“People I know with houses squeeze every drop of capital out of them, because, even when it's hard, squeezing capital out of a house is a hell of a lot easier than squeezing it out of work.”
Source: Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
“People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.”
“People I meet today, especially journalists who interview me, are astonished to hear that Lenin told me, in effect, that Communism was not working and that the Revolution needed American capital and technical aid.”
Source: Hammer
“People, I realize, cannot live like a patch of grass. They could, I suppose, at one time, but we are so far removed from that time that it is hard to conceive. People can, however, live their lives with the realization that they are constantly changing, products of their changing environment and changing situations, and time. They can live, at least, in harmony with the knowledge and co-exist with it instead of working against it.”
Source: Keith Haring Journals
“People, I realized, rooted for teams not necessarily because one was somehow fundamentally better than the other. They did it mostly just to belong. Because it was nice to belong to something, or someone.”
Source: Super Fake Love Song
“People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.”
“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn’t bare the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn’t bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn’t even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn’t bear not to.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the though of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believe in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“People I work with are open to leadership that has a vision, but this vision has to be communicated clearly and persuasively, and always, always with passion.”
“People I've interviewed say they're terrified there may be boycotts of their [the Kochs] products, which include so many household items that everybody's familiar with, things like Stainmaster Carpet and Dixie Cups and Brawny paper towels and Lycra.”
“People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.”
“People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.”
“People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet Lancelot had more.”
“People idolise those who are bad, know they are bad, and say to others not to follow them … And conversely, we tend to ignore those who are good, know they are good, and say to others to follow them. This creates a complex social divide. .”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“People idolise those who are bad, know they are bad, and say to others not to low them … And conversely, we tend to ignore those who are good, know they are good, and say to others to follow them. This creates a complex social divide. .”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“People ignore death but death never ignores people.”
“People ignore facts which contradict the theory in the mind of the investor. Dis-confirming evidence must be seeked out to beat this theory.”
Source: From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
“People Ignore, People Hurt, People Confuse. But, Nature Talks, Nature Heals, Nature Answers.”
“People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe- but usually no one else notices.”
Source: Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality
“People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.”
“People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.”
“People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.”
Source: Back When We Were Grownups
“People imagined the Cockaigne ("Land of Plenty") menu as full of delectable meats such as hare, deer and wild boar . all which let themselves be caught. Grilled fish leaped out of rivers of wine onto your plate. Roast geese waddled down streets paved in pastry, just begging to be eaten. Flying pigs and buttered birds fell from the sky like rain, directly into people's mouths. People lived in edible houses made of pancake roofs and walls made of sausage.”
Source: The History of the Snowman: From the Ice Age to the Flea Market
“People imitate their leader. Lead by example.”
“People immigrate to seek better standards of living.”
“People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.”
“People in a cluster are bound to each other automatically, and can see each other automatically.”
“People in a constant state of anxiety create a life full of unhappy relationships.”
Source: Quantraz
“People in a cult don't know they're in a cult. But everyone else can tell.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert
“People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“People in a majority or socially supported position, no matter how well-meaning, are often so protected in their assumptions about the world that they do not even know they are making assumptions.”
Source: Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Practical Guide
“People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed.”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
“People in a state like Pennsylvania, especially in the middle of the state, as you say, want the focus on repairing the state. Pennsylvania is a mess in terms of infrastructure. They don`t want to blow up bridges over there. They want to build them here.”