P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.”
“People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?”
Source: Otherland 2: River of Blue Fire
“People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.”
“People in Seville are very happy, the lifestyle here is very relaxed, you can walk everywhere; it's very easy.”
“People in show business who are interested in politics, like Ronald Reagan, fare so well because they do know the magic of dealing with the public. This is something that can't be taught in a book. If they can produce after they've won over the public. If you can live up to your ballyhoo, you've got it made.”
“People in simple societies may have killed infants they could not feed in times of scarcity. Female infanticide is an entirely different matter. It occurs in societies with private property in which only males can own property, and it is justified by the need for male heirs. In such societies, men alone can perform religious rituals. Female infanticide is obviously a manifestation of low self esteem for females. Since women's status was traditionally associated with their reproductive capabilities, female infanticide also implies a low value for reproduction. It occurred in most ancient states.”
Source: From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1
“People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.”
“People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.”
“People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.”
“People in Social Media don't give other people space to change, grow and learn. One mistake they persecute you, if no mistake, then they bring your past mistakes to pull you down. We all have done things that we are not proud of off. At some time in life. In order to become a society. We need to forgive those who see the wrongs they have done and are making efforts to change and do better.”
“People in some situations act worse than animals. You can't be a judge if you try to be a robot. Because then you're not going to be able to look at both sides, and hear both sides. At the same time, if you're being ruled by emotion, then you're not being fair and impartial.”
“People in south Manchester overwhelming want to be able to recycle more than they currently can - especially cardboard and plastics - and want more frequent and accessible collections, particularly for those living in flats.”
“People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that a certain tree will die when the tree is in someone's backyard . . . . You are talking about a personal asset, a friend, a monument, not about board feet of lumber.”
Source: Field days: journal of an itinerant biologist
“People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.”
“People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.”
“People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves”
Source: Meltdown
“People in the age of [President] Obama don't dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That's for sure.”
“People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.”
“People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices.”
“People in the big rich countries are often extremely dismissive of the small countries. They think nothing that happens there is of any interest or that it matters at all, but, at the very least, with that attitude they miss out on some extraordinary stories.”
“People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!”
“People in the church should not accept the notion that the public square is off limits to religious values.”
“People in the CIA, they marry each other. They're like actors! We have to travel without much warning to far-flung places, and it's very hard to communicate what our experiences are like to those in the outside world.”
“People in the city are poor because they are oppressed, discriminated against and alienated; people in the country are poor because they're too stupid to realize they ought to be living in the city.”
Source: No Place But Here Four Generations of American Literary Friendship and Influence: Melville & Hawthorne, James & Wharton, Porter & Welty, Bishop & Lowell
“People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'”
“People in the country wave because it’s important to them that they wave. The response doesn’t alter what they feel they should do. Apart from that, they generally don’t overthink things. They have too much to do.”
Source: Purnima
“People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“People in the East Conference are starting to see how good the twins are. They make my job easy. I just go to the net and look for holes and they keep finding me.”
“People in the East get a very skewed sense of America as this enormously rapaciously sexual place, this place where you have rappers and you have Donald Trump and things like that, which leads to a lot of confusion.”
“People in the East looked toward the West with longing. They would have liked to have the same comforts, the same goods, the same chances. They saw a system that demanded of them sacrifices with nothing but promises for the future.”
“People in the eastern regions [of Ukaraine] are talking about federalisation, and Kiev has at long last started talking about de-centralisation. Order in the country can only be restored through dialogue and democratic procedures, rather than with the use of armed force, tanks and aircraft.”
“People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.”
“People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.”
“People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.”
“People in the hospital ... call me the wellest man on the ward. That's what's going to sustain me. I have these energy reserves that I somehow can't seem to deplete.”
“People in the individual marketplace should have more options. The plan that we - the discussion draft that we have out, actually opens up for people who are zero percent to 100 percent of the federal poverty level, not eligible for Medicaid, would open up the opportunity for them to purchase insurance with help from the federal government.”
“People in the industry kept telling me intimate and unsolicited details about their sex lives. I realized that pornography was as much an attitude or lifestyle as it was a business. The line between private and public was sometimes blurred to the point of being erased.”
Source: XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography
“People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel.”
“People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.”
Source: Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice
“People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.”
“People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.”
“People in the media often tend to assume it`s like Trump and [Ted] Cruz fighting over the same voters but when you look at the people who say they`re voting for Donald Trump he does as well with voters who describe themselves as moderate or liberal as he does with voters who themselves as very conservative. So, not all the Trump base would go to Cruz as a second choice.”
“People in the media, it makes their day when someone they say is a five-star artist goes platinum.”
“People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.”
“People in the midst of losing their patience are certainly experiencing as aspect of dukkha.”
Source: Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
“People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.”
“People in the older generation who make comments about "nice skin" and "nice hair" are talking about the straightness of your hair and the blackness of your skin.”
Source: Exploring Shadeism
“People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.”
“People in the political world have every incentive to say things that lead voters away from a clear economic understanding of issues. What has happened more and more is that organized groups have more and more reasons to say things that don't make any economic sense.”
“People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will “lessen as time passes,” but it isn’t true. Sorrow and loss are constant, but if we all had to go through our whole lives carrying them the whole time, we wouldn’t be able to stand it. The sadness would paralyze us. So in the end we just pack it into bags and find somewhere to leave it.”
Source: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry