P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words are, as a rule, the shallowest portion of all the argument. They but dimly represent the great surging feelings and desires which lie behind. When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.”
Source: Sister Carrie
“People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them.”
“People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.”
“People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is good; they permit themselves not to doubt of it, and they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! It is quite another thing; it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy.”
Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion
“People in general misunderstand me. I'm very aware of the stereotype that comes with being a basketball player. But I'm well-rounded. I'm cultured. It's funny: When I speak, people are like, "Wow! You can really talk." I'm like, "What did you expect?"”
“People in general want to build somebody up and then try to knock them down. They always root for the underdog.”
“People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“People in Germany are very, very responsive to the readings.”
“People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.”
“People in good relationships had to appreciate each other - say thank you, give compliments, notice what their partner was getting right- in ways that created a cushion of warmth and kindness that erased everything else.”
Source: The Love Haters
“People in government are self-interested just like people in business.”
“People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.”
“people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.”
“People in Haiti eat dirt because it gives their starving bodies a false sense of satisfaction. But mud pies don't fill. They merely mask real hunger. [...] I saw the mud pies as a metaphor for the life of any Christian who has ever looked to something or someone other than God for fulfillment.”
Source: Love Idol: Letting Go of Your Need for Approval - and Seeing Yourself Through God's Eyes
“People in hell want snowcones.”
Source: Captive Star
“People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.”
“People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.”
“People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.”
“People in Hollywood don't have that much sex, or at least I don't.”
“People in Hong Kong are stylish and fashionable, which is one of the many reasons making Hong Kong itself such an energetic place.”
“People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.”
“People in Iceland are complete chickens in the cold. You think, "Oh, you must not be cold because you're from Iceland," but we're never in the cold.”
“People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.”
“People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four.”
“People in Indonesia are scared of being assaulted, insulted, robbed or raped. Again, it is because they are unprotected. Police and even the legal system are corrupt or/and on the side of the rich. Victims see no justice. How could you not be scared in almost total lawlessness?”
“People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech. When I started writing, I thought [the language] was telling the story of this country: old people in a young nation, very religious, very conservative, very tight-assed, but also very anarchistic, very open-minded. It's all in the language, and that's one thing that doesn't translate.”
“People in Italy seem to be very capable of singing along with 'Wish You Were Here' perfectly, yet it's hard to get someone in the street who speaks english.”
“People in L.A. don't have to brace themselves against the cold; they slack off permanently, and their brains turn to mush.”
“People in L.A. think Im so posh. They think I live in Downton Abbey.”
“People in LA seem to have no concept of the time outside of their city. I've been trained for thirty years in the film industry of having whether its agents, lawyers, actors, or whoever calling up all night.”
“People in large quantities are terrible.”
Source: Nobody Is Ever Missing
“People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.”
“People in liberal systems are free to believe anything they wish, and they're free to argue for anything they want, but to claim that such beliefs are knowledge and demand they be respected as such is another matter.”
Source: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
“People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me”
“People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.”
“People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high.”
“People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know.”
“People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.”
“People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.”
“People in long-term, monogamous relationships are crushed by the expectation that a partner is going to provide everything they are looking for and wondering why they are dissatisfied when they have four of the ten boxes checked.”
“People in love always tried to match the singles together, but what they didn't realize was that some people were meant to be alone. There was nothing wrong with that.”
Source: Fated
“People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.”
“People in love look into each other's souls, and it is that feeling that I try to capture when I sing.”
“People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.”
Source: Women
“People in love overvalue their heart and undervalue their mind.”
“People in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place.”
Source: The House In Paris
“People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves.”
“People in low-lying countries like Bangladesh with almost 140 million people who are managing to feed themselves, whose carbon emissions can't really be calculated (they are a rounding error in the UN's attempts to do national comparisons), and yet, most of whose people are at risk from increased flooding due to rising sea levels.”
“People in magazines are 50% bimbo and 50% pregnant women.”
“People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.”