P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People mistake their limitations for high standards.”
Source: The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967
“People mistake their love of the technology for it being a solution. Social media is the problem, not the solution, in crisis management. It's a problem if you use it to communicate in areas where you're dealing with incredibly intense emotions and very deep conflicts.”
“People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.”
Source: The Way to Love: Meditations for Life
“People mistakenly believe that if you do nothing but train you can only get better. You've got to work hard, but the harder you work the harder you must rest and relax.”
“People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment and pleasure, one of many paths, where nature and the artists feelings are merely raw material.”
“People mistrust what you say, they trust what you show.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble. No two people have the same trouble, or the same way of metabolizing it. Q.E.D. - No two happy people are happy in the same way. . . . Every day brilliant people, people smarter than I, wallow in safe tragedy and pessimism, shying from what really takes guts - recognizing how much courage and labor happiness demands.”
Source: Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story
“People misunderstand me.”
“People misunderstand the Angel of Death. He doesn’t kill you. He accompanies you on your journey to the other world, so that you don’t cross the barrier between life and death alone.”
“People moan about drugs being tested on animals. I sort of think it depends innit. If the drug's aspirin and the monkey's got a headache, is it right?”
“People mock, laugh, and make memes about something that is beyond their level of comprehension. And when people hate, they hate everything about you, even the things you do with good intentions.”
“People mock, laugh, and make memes about things that are beyond their level of comprehension. And when people hate, they hate everything about you, even the things you do with good intentions.”
“People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction”
“People more think of me as a party animal. Which, I am a self-proclaimed party animal, but I'm also the hardest working person you'll ever know.”
“People most strenuously seek to evaluate performance by comparing themselves to others, not by using absolute standards.”
“People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.”
“People move around so much in the world, things get lost.”
“People move because of the wear and tear of anxiety. Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others. Because of the impression that the future is blocked up, that *they* might do all right but not their children. Because of the feeling that nothing will change, that happiness and prosperity are possible only somewhere else.”
Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated
“People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.”
Source: Existential Errands
“People move on. Friendship end.”
Source: Shopaholic to the Rescue
“People move on quicker than I can comprehend. People forget you within days, they take new pictures to put on Facebook and they don't read your messages. They keep on moving forward and shove you to the side because you make more mistakes than you should.”
Source: Radio Silence
“People moved in across the street and are immediately cutting down a huge tree. Their toothbrushes will know my buttonhole.”
“People moving in Heaven move with grace and beauty and slowly glide along with their feet hardly seeming to touch the ground!”
“People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”
“People must ask themselves why this earthquake occurred in this area and not in others. These areas were notorious because of this type of modern tourism, which has become known as "sex tourism". Don't they deserve punishment from Allah?!”
“People must be able to use their voice, tell their stories, have their experiences recognized and their voices heard.”
“People must be aware of their problems in a realistic way. They must be able to analyse their problems and to work out common solutions. In other words a community is easily divided when their perception of the same thing is different”
“People must be changed...goodness cannot be legislated.”
“People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.”
“People must be just and fair, starting with what they thought.”
Source: Bumi Manusia
“People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.”
“People must be realistic when evaluating their business.”
“People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.”
“People must be valued because of what they are rather than who they are.”
“People must believe that you are real and are who you say you are, otherwise they will not want to do business with you, much less make the effort to move forward in starting and building a relationship.”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.”
Source: MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest
“People must belong to a tribe; they yearn to have a purpose larger than themselves. We are obligated by the deepest drives of the human spirit to make ourselves more than animated dust, and we must have a story to tell about where we came from, and why we are here.”
“People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.”
“People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.”
“People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.”
Source: My Life and My Life in the Nineties
“People must get active; go outside; get moving. This is a crucial time. You know, massive wealth and capital haven't budged one bit, so far. We have to give it a huge push if we want to see something different in our society. We need to create mechanisms and forms of organization which reflect the needs and wants of society as a whole, not just a privileged-oligarchic class of individuals.”
“People must get respect for their new ideas.”
“People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.”
Source: The Silver Stallion
“People must have freedom and at the same time they must have security. They must not be using freedom to fight with each other. When they have security of the mind, their fears will subside, and their mistrust of others will also decline. There will be no need to worry that somebody will be looking at you with jealousy. They won't have to worry that someone will report some lies to their superiors and get them into trouble. This fear of being unjustly punished would disappear and I believe confidence and trust will mount and people will have more love and respect towards one another.”
“People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.”
“People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.”
“People must help one another; it is nature's law.”
“People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.”
“People must know that their ideas will be listened to and, if they have merit, acted upon. If they do, it is possible to mobilize individual creativity on a very broad scale.”
“People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.”