P Quotes
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“People never cease to amaze us.”
“People never cease to project on to God their individual and collective obsessions, so that they can appropriate and make use of him. But they ought to understand that God cannot be apprehended from without, as if he were an object, for with him there is no outside nor can the Creator be set side by side with the creature.”
“People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living.”
“People never confess to failure. They should.”
“People never explain to you exactly what they think and feel and how their thoughts and feelings work, do they? They don't have time. Or the right words. But that's what books do. It's as though your daily life is a film in the cinema. It can be fun, looking at those pictures. But if you want to know what lies behind the flat screen you have to read a book. That explains it all.”
“People never expose themselves totally to others. We always hold back parts of our true selves. Perhaps because we do not totally understand those parts ourselves. Or perhaps it is a survival instinct to hold something back. In that way we cannot be totally controlled, or imprisoned. But if we have computers connected to our brain, then those freedoms will disappear. Everything will be seen, and there will be no place for our stream of consciousness to hide.”
“People never fail to amaze me. They face the unimaginable with a shot of grace and a rush of adrenaline; they steel their nerves; they summon their cool or anger or faith or whatever it takes to pull them through, and they go on to live another day.”
“People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring”
“People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie.”
“People never fully confront their wrongdoing. They are all trying to push for their own ends, and they lack the strength to truly apologise for that. In my heart of hearts, I wondered if I was just the same.”
Source: An Honest Deceit
“People never grasp the fact that they're going to have to go through the same thing again. They get to the sort of five-year stretch or the seven-year itch or whatever these tension points are that seem to be organic, built in, like the tide coming in and going out. It's like every time the tide goes out you quit--you move your house or something.”
Source: The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono
“People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public.”
“People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.”
“People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.”
“People never hurt others in moments of personal strength and bravery, when they are feeling good about themselves, when they are strong and confident. If we spent all of our waking moments in that place, then fighting for social justice would be redundant; we would simply have social justice and be done with it, and we could all go swimming, or fishing, or bowling, or dancing, or whatever people do. But it is because we spend so much of our time in that other place, that place of diminished capacity, of flagging energy, or wavering and somewhat flaccid commitment, that we have to be careful.”
“People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.”
“People never know how strong is their lust for being cheated.”
“People never know what they are capable of until all other options run out.”
Source: The Price of Loyalty
“People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.”
“People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.”
“People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.”
“People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives.”
“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.”
“People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.”
“People never like me and I never like people”
Source: The Secret Garden
“People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises.”
Source: The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)
“People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live.”
“People never notice anything.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“People never pay attention to weather reports; this, I believe, is a constant factor in man's psychological makeup, stemming probably from an ancient distrust of the shaman. You want them to be wrong. If they're right, then they're somehow superior, and this is even more uncomfortable than getting wet.
"This Moment of the Storm”
Source: The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth
“People never realize how much work impacts there self esteem and sense of purpose until they leave a job.”
“People never really died. They only went on to a better place, to wait a while for their loved ones to join them. And then once more they went back to the world, in the same way they had arrived the first time around.”
“People never regret when they come out of a movie and they've been crying. I think people need it. That's why people have the theater and live music, which is dwindling as well. I think people like to go see things and have an emotional, transcendent, universal human experience, but so often we're like, "Let's go watch Green Lantern," which we all know is just not going to do anything for our souls.”
“People never remeber happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.”
Source: Never Mind
“People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.”
“People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to admit that life was becoming ever poorer, bleaker and more monotonous. The ones who felt this most keenly were the children, because no one had time for them any more. But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. And the more people saved, the less they had.”
“People never sing...except in the bathroom. Birthing women also make their natural sounds next to running bath water. There is something about the power of water. People are drawn to water, spas, and sacred streams. Women in labor are drawn to water, too.”
“People never talked about my music. They just counted how many knickers were on stage.”
“People never think about words, they only feel them.”
“People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, Nothing can go wrong with them. We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.”
“People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition
“People never understand what a friendship is. I'll tell you what a friendship is to me. Friendship to me is, if my friends need my little finger to live, I'm going to have it cut off. I'm going to the hospital, they cut off my finger, and maybe I have a gold finger instead, and I become famous. But I still give it to my friend.”
“People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people.”
“People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.”
Source: The Cream of the Jest
“People never will recollect that mere learning and mere cleverness are of next to no value in life, while energy and intellectual grip, the things that are inborn and cannot be taught, are everything.”
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
“people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.”
Source: The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
“People newly emerged from obscurity generally launch out into indiscriminate display.”
“People no longer have 'disease'. Now they have 'health issues' that can be managed if they regularly visit hospitals. The system doesn't solve problems. It uses fancy terms to normalize and regularize them and makes them part of economy.”
“People no longer know how to apologize, which is particularly noticeable among athletes, politicians, and entertainment figures.”
“People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.”