P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.”
“People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie.”
“People look at you peculiar if you talk about the feeling you got for animals, saying animals have no souls, no sense of good or bad, no value up next to humans," he said. "I don't know about that. Sometimes I think animals are the ones who should be saying such things about us." He shook his head. "Animals can tear your heart out. They can maim you. They can kill you dead on instinct alone and saunter into the next minute like it was nothing. But at least you know the ground rules with animals. You can count the cost of breaking the rules. You never know with people. Even the good can hurt you bad, and the bad, well, they're going to hurt you but good." He dropped his arm from the window to rub his gnarled hand. "It's why I keep choosing animals. Even if it kills me. One day, it probably will.”
Source: West with Giraffes
“People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.”
“People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful white male”
“People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.”
Source: Feet of Clay: A Novel of Discworld
“People look for a faithful friend but loyal companion who can find?”
“People look for holidays twice a year, revelry twice a month, sex twice a week, food twice a day and attention twice every minute. That explains nearly everything about life.”
“People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.”
“People look for patterns in everything. It's what keeps us sane, I suppose. I struggle to see any patterns in my life. I think I can understand depression a bit because of my sister. My own feelings of ... I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.”
“People look for their leadership to lead.”
“People look for their passions. But often, the passions find you. How does your # passion find you? When you are good at something, you get passionate about it. That’s it.”
“People look happier in the dark than in the daylight
They all know where they need to be
I'm the only one just walking around
But I feel more comfortable just blending in”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.”
“People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.”
“People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is.”
Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview
“People look to the future for salvation, but the future never arrives.”
“People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.”
“People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.”
“People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.”
“People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.”
“People look up to you. Don’t let them down.”
Source: Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others
“People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.”
Source: Little Barefoot: Or, Strive and Trust, a Tale of Village Life
“People looked at him as an orange-faced evil clown with silly hair. Like the Joker in Batman comics. Make Gotham great again!”
Source: Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Finding Happiness in Los Angeles
“People looked at me like I was a loser. Like I was trash. Good. I’d rather be trash in the gutter with the taste of freedom in my mouth than a corpse in a cubicle with a breath mint on my tongue.”
Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“People looked to Kurt Cobain because his songs captured what they felt before they knew they felt it.”
Source: Rocking my life away: writing about music and other matters
“People looking at what I do from the outside would think it was a secure world I live in, but it isn't. Just because you had a series last year, doesn't mean you will have one next. But I am quite happy with that.”
“People looking for easy answers to big problems. People that blame the Jews or colored folks for all the bad things that happen to ‘em. People that can’t realize that a heck of a lot of things are bound to go wrong in a world as big as this one. And if there is any answer to why it’s that way – and there ain’t always – why, it’s probably not just one answer by itself, but thousands of answers.
But that’s the way my daddy was – like those people. They buy some books by a fella that don’t know a god-danged thing more than they do (or he wouldn’t be having to write books). And that’s supposed to set ‘em straight about everything. Or they buy themselves a bottle of pills. Or they say the whole trouble is with other folks, and the only thing to do is to get rid of ‘em. Or they claim we got to war with another country.”
Source: Pop. 1280
“People looking for their purpose have overlooked their potential”
“People looking into Barack Obama's campaign contributions say that Obama may have received $3.3 million from abroad. Yeah. It turns out that broad is Oprah Winfrey.”
“People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.”
Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“People loose tension when they run. The feeling of self respect will almost always increase. You accept yourself a little more.”
“People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothing but skin cells as far as the world is concerned.”
Source: 1Q84
“People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.”
“People lose their enthusiasm and disengage for a variety of reasons. It can be due to boredom, disinterest, rejection, apathy, overwhelm, or exhaustion. Once a person begins to disengage, the tendency can bleed over into other areas of their life and disconnect them from what would actually bring them joy.”
“People lose their jobs over this sort of thing. They lose their friends. Their families. They lose everything.”
Source: Trans-Sister Radio
“People lose their lives in the drug wars and you don't have to prove it to yourself because others have proved it for you.”
“People lose their pleasures because they "don't care". Others misuse their treasures because they "care less". If you'll win, you must care!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“People lose their powers (siddhi) by nagging; therefore know ‘as it is’. Know all these relations as being worldly (laukik, of the non-Self), and do not believe them to be beyond-worldly relations (alaukik, of the Self). Discover that something whereby you experience peace amidst the puzzle. This discovery is indeed within you.”
“People lose their way when they lose their Why”
Source: Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
“People lose track of their purpose, because they are so back there - living in their past.”
“People lost the capacity of using their brain. It's all about the label. Not about the labels showing but subtlety of the labels.”
“People love a conflict. Artistic conflict is not like that at all. It's just wanting your own space, it's not wanting what the other person has. And we dissolved at a good time - we were very close to the top of our game.”
“People love a good mystery; I understand that.”
“People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”
“People love a player with ideas, because at the end of the day, the crowd want to be entertained. And with football being only a game, it has to be enjoyable too.”
“People love advertising in particular but they hate advertising in general.”
“People love America. Sometimes they don't like the decisions made by America, but I don't think you want a president who tries to become popular and does the wrong thing.”
“People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.”
Source: Killosophy
“People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.”