P Quotes
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“People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.”
“People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice!” There‘s dead silence on the set. It goes on. And on. Finally, the intercom crackles and Haymitch‘s acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, “And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.”
Source: Mockingjay
“People of peace, men and women of desire, such is the splendor of the Temple in which you will one day have the right to take your place. Such privilege should astonish you less, however, than your ability to commence building it down here, your ability, in fact, to adorn it at every moment of your existence. Remember the saying 'as above, so below', and contribute to this by making 'as below, so above'.”
“People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.”
“People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.”
“People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.”
Source: Tartuffe and Other Plays
“People of relatively low intelligence can be morally wonderful if they desire the right and the good (not necessarily under the description "right" or "good"). Their low intelligence sometimes results in their accidentally doing something wrong, but doing something wrong out of low intelligence alone is like stepping on a person's foot because you are (literally) blind or missing a cry for help because you are (literally) deaf. We do not judge the blind or deaf person as morally bad.”
“People of shallow faith depend on miracles and wish fulfillment to sustain their faith. People of deep faith, of true faith know that true faith does not depend on miracles or wish fulfillment to sustain itself. They are grateful for the experiences God sends to them, both good and bad because they know, that God only sends them experiences which can make them stronger from the lessons that they learn through them.” From The Kindle Ebook What Faith Has Taught Me”
Source: What Faith Has Taught Me: Spiritual Insights
“People of small calibre are always carping. How affected so-and-so is! Don't you think he is silly? He was certainly quite mistaken about this or that. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or their prowess or good breeding.”
“People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.”
“People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.”
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
“People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.”
“People of the cross? A symbol of shame has become our confidence.”
“People of the hundred," he said, using an ancient Herrani phrase Arin was surprised he knew, "who leads you?"
So many cried Arin's name that it no longer sounded like his name.”
Source: The Winner's Kiss
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty or justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary.”
“People of the United States have to really consider whether they want to be an empire. Sweden is not worried about terrorism. New Zealand is not worried about terrorism. Holland is not worried about terrorism. Why not be a modest little country without all of these enormous ambitions?”
“People of the United States of America, your Congress is bought, your Congress is incapable of making legislation on healthcare, banking, trade, or taxes because if they do it, they will lose their political funding and they won’t do it.”
“People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another.”
“People of the world, today always say, "Look up to the sky, look up to the sky", but while they do that, they trample on butterflies with broken wings and they step on ladybugs with broken legs. "Look up to the sky and be like God", they say; but nay, it is the nature of the mortal to cast his gaze upward, while it is the nature of the gods in the sky to cast their gaze downwards. When you are below, the way to look is up. When you are up, the way to look is down.”
“People of the world will reject your reminders, because it reminds them that this world is temporary.”
“People of the world, the time for decision is short. It is measured in a few years. The choice is ours as to whether or not we will pay the price of peace. If we are not willing to pay it, all that we hold dear will be consumed in the flame of war. The darkness in our world today is due to the disintegration of things which are contrary to God's laws. Let us never say hopelessly this is the darkness before a storm; rather let us say with faith this is the darkness before the dawn of the golden age of peace, which we cannot now even imagine. For this, let us hope and work and pray.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“People of the world, unite and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs!”
“People of this teenager's age are on the brink of adulthood and have to be allowed a greater degree of responsibility. A consequence of this is a decrease in parental responsibility. Therefore to have criminal responsibility for what you don't know about seems rather extreme.”
“People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something-always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons. All phenomena are empty. They contain nothing worth desiring.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“People of this world, look upon this city and see that you should not and cannot abandon this city and this people.”
“People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.”
“People of various parts of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, the USSR, and other places, were living among the ruins in the best way that they could. Because I was alone and homeless as well as confused, I opted to join the French Foreign Legion. When I was in the Wehrmacht, I thought that their discipline was extreme. However, it was nothing when compared to the discipline as practised by the Foreign Legion!”
(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
“People of very different opinions--friends who can discuss politics, religion, and sex with perfect civility--are often reduced to red-faced rage when the topic of conversation is the serial comma or an expression like more unique. People who merely roll their eyes at hate crimes feel compelled to write jeremiads on declining standards when a newspaper uses the wrong form of its. Challenge my most cherished beliefs about the place of humankind in God's creation, and while I may not agree with you, I'll fight to the death for your right to say it. But dangle a participle in my presence, and I'll consider you a subliterate cretin no longer worth listening to, a menace to decent society who should be removed from the gene pool before you do any more damage.”
Source: The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of "Proper" English, from Shakespeare to South Park
“People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten.”
Source: Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books
“People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.”
“People of ze wurl, relax!”
“People offer advice, but they do not give at the same time the wisdom to benefit from it.”
“People offer free advice because they don't use that advice for themselves anyway.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“People often accuse me of tearing up tradition, but what is tradition, apart from peer pressure from dead people?”
Source: The Art of Disruption: A Manifesto For Real Change
“People often are unsure whether or not they are in love, but they generally know whether or not they are having sex.”
“People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!”
“People often ask authors where their ideas come from, and often authors say they don't know. But I do know about this one. Once upon a time, my wife and I had three small children -- two boys and a girl, just like in the story. And when they were young, we used to tell them a story very like YOU'RE ALL MY FAVORITES.”
Source: You're all my favorites
“People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.”
“People often ask if I have a favorite song that I've written. And the answer is yes, but it depends on the day and what mood I'm in.”
“People often ask if I pay my speakers to speak. No I don’t. If you are able to explain the benefits of the virtual summit to the speaker (which we address in chapter 5) then it will be easy for you to get the caliber of speakers you want.”
Source: Your First Virtual Summit: Everything you need to know to create your first successful Virtual Summit
“People often ask if it is difficult to be a celibate monk or nun, but to practice mindfulness as a monastic is in many ways easier than to practice as a layperson. To refrain from sexual activity altogether is much easier than to have a healthy sexual relationship.”
Source: Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
“People often ask if there is a shorter version of this book. My answer is YES, it’s a 3 word version: “Buy Bitcoin Now!”
Source: One Coin. Two Coin. What Coin? Bitcoin: Crypto for Grownups Made as Easy as Child's Play
“People often ask: If there’s a God, how can He allow so much suffering in the world? Realize all world suffering you perceive is a mirror to your own psychological self-abuse, gender imbalance, prejudice, poverty, and hunger. You couldn’t even perceive each suffering aspect of external reality if it didn’t already exist within you. Touch and transmute your own psychological suffering, and perceive the world in kind.”
Source: Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
“People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: Its just the way I sound when I sing.”
“People often ask me how I keep my priorities straight in life and I tell them that it is done by constantly straightening them out!”
“People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.”
“People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'”
Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee