P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People no longer want to see themselves primarily as consumers, but as activists.”
“People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago.”
“People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality.”
Source: Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247
“People normally say "don't cry like a little girl", because the grief behind crying like a boy is too great for the heart to bear, and we shouldn't wish that for anyone.”
“People normally view my work as fantasy, which on some level is true, but I do think that my work is more magical realist than fantasy. I believe in the fantasies within each of our realities, i.e., I portray very relatable human issues in a very realistic tone, yet in a magical setting.”
“People not cry 'coztheir weak,
It Beacaus They've been srong...
GFor too long !!”
“People not only fall through the cracks, they live in the cracks as a full-time occupation. The view from the cracks is a lot clearer than the view from above. When you look down on people, they stop being people. But when you watch from below, you see how easy it is to fall.”
Source: The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
“People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.”
Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory
“People not only need a gospel-inspired vision of work, but they need a new vision of the Scriptures.”
“People not only notice how you treat them, they also notice how you treat others.”
Source: Leadership: The First Step
“People not only stinks because of the odor but also because of the character.”
“People not only stood to respect it but perhaps their thoughts and heartbeats came to standstill, and only inspiration and patriotism was flowing through their veins.”
Source: One Bucket of Tears
“People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts.”
“People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or in computers and clipboards, or in absoluteness, severity, greed, and cynicism. But the peacemaker is dressed in righteousness, justice, and faithfulness - dressed for the work that is to be done.”
“people notice the most beautiful dress every person can wear,......... a "smile”
“People now are beginning to cheer for me. I've never heard that before. .. Maybe things are turning a bit.”
“People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.”
“People now genuinely respond to it and associate me with music. It's really fun.”
“People now have their own particular religion - a denomination of one. I suppose it's a part of the new age phenomenon, but it's much wider than that. On the whole, I would say that is healthy. But I think it was always there, secretly.”
“People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.”
“People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.”
“People nowadays do intentional and purposeful mistakes, so they can apologize later. Knowing they would have got what they wanted, from the mistake they intentional and purposefully made.”
“People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles.”
“People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which should prevail between citizens and the sense of community of interest which supports our social system. According to our ideas, buying and selling is essentially anti-social in all its tendencies. It is an education in self-seeking at the expense of others, and no society whose citizens are trained in such a school can possibly rise above a very low grade of civilization”
Source: Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887
“People nowadays labeled themselves as an artist, do they really know what art is?”
“People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It's a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it's the togetherness of modern technology.”
“People nowadays take time far more seriously than eternity. – Thomas Kelly”
Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
“People nowadays talk about issues as if they're reading lines off a teleprompter. They recite what they read and echo it without thinking. It has become easier to divide people than to unify them, and to blind them than to give them vision. We are no longer unified like a bowl of Cheerios. Instead, we have become as segregated as a box of Lucky Charms. Every day we see the same leprechauns on TV acting like they're the experts of everything.”
“People nowadays talk about the world's problems like they're reading lines off a teleprompter. They recite what they're told and echo it without thinking. It has become easier to divide people than to unify them, and to blind them than to give them vision. We are no longer unified like a bowl of Cheerios. Instead, we have become as segregated as a box of Lucky Charms. Every day we see the same leprechauns on TV acting like they're the experts of everything.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spot blues. Murky darkness. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them.”
Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition
“People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns.”
“People of a television culture need “plain language” both aurally and visually, and will even go so far as to require it in some circumstances by law. The Gettysburg Address would probably have been largely incomprehensible to a 1985 audience.”
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“People of all ages, but especially young people, require work that as meaning, or social value. Since they're not getting the kind of long-term guarantees of yore, they're willing to job hop to find the right fit.”
“People of all ages, including children, have been exposed to clever and eye-catching advertising material, .. All that will now change. Tobacco advertising is going to end, and it's going to end soon,.”
“People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.”
“People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.”
“People of all kinds are waking up. Even people passionate for Obama realize even that knight on a white horse isn't enough to roll back the oligarchy. I'm seeing a lot of action on the left as well that is never reported. But the Tea Party response is the most visible and the initiative they show is the most recognizable.”
“People of all races generally prefer the company of people like themselves. Racial diversity is a source of conflict, not strength. Non-whites, especially blacks and Hispanics, nurture a strong sense of racial pride and solidarity. Whites have little sense of racial solidarity, and most whites strongly condemn any signs of it. Immigration from non-European countries is changing the United States in profound ways, many of which whites find disagreeable. To the extent that these statements are true, they have serious implications both for the country as a whole and for whites as a group.”
Source: White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
“People of all religions must obtain enlightenment of the heart so that their worship and prayers may reach God.”
Source: The Religion of God (Divine Love): Untold Mysteries and Secrets of God
“People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.”
Source: Trans liberation: beyond pink or blue
“People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.”
“People of Baghdad, remember for 26 generations you have suffered under strange tyrants who have ever endeavoured to set one Arab house against another in order that they might profit by your dissensions. This policy is abhorrent to Great Britain and her Allies for there can be neither peace nor prosperity where there is enmity or misgovernment. Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.”
“People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.”
“People of Bihar are the most intelligent people on earth.”
“People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.”
“People of character don’t allow the environment to dictate their style.”
Source: C.B. Greenfield: the Tanglewood murder
“People of color are allowed, even required to perform, and, especially these days on issues of race, to edify as well.
'Here you are, now entertain us'.
But are we allowed to lead?”
Source: We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation
“People of color are not under any kind of obligation beyond working hard, doing their best, and learning from their mistakes.”
“People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.”
“People of color have to do this work as a mater of everyday survival. And so long as they have to, who am I to act as if I have a choice in the matter? Especially when my future and that of my children in large part depends on the eradication of racism? There is no choice.”