P Quotes
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“People only speak to get something. If I say, Let me tell you a few things about myself, already your defenses go up; you go, Look, I wonder what he wants from me, because no one ever speaks except to obtain an objective. That's the only reason anyone ever opens their mouth, onstage or offstage. They may use a language that seems revealing, but if so, it's just coincidence, because what they're trying to do is accomplish an objective.”
“People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.”
“People only talk about how wonderful youth is when they have forgotten how hard it was.”
Source: The Lonesome Gods
“People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.”
“People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.”
“People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.”
Source: The Museum of Innocence
“People only understand how to live when all their senses gravitate around survival.”
Source: Victim 2117
“People only value things in their life when it is taken away from them.”
“People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.”
Source: Peeps
“People open shops in order to sell things, they hope to become busy so that they will have to enlarge the shop, then to sell more things, and grow rich, and eventually not have to come into the shop at all. Isn't that true? But are there other people who open a shop with the hope of being sheltered there, among such things as they most value - the yarn or the teacups or the books - and with the idea only of making a comfortable assertion? They will become a part of the block, a part of the street, part of everybody's map of the town, and eventually of everybody's memories. They will sit and drink coffee in the middle of the morning, they will get out the familiar bits of tinsel at Christmas, they will wash the windows in spring before spreading out the new stock. Shops, to these people, are what a cabin in the woods might be to somebody else - a refuge and a justification.”
Source: Carried Away: A Personal Selection of Stories
“People oppose you when you uncomfort them… When you don't reciprocate their actions. Or when you point their guilt. They tell bad things about you exaggerating. You can tell more bad things about them but you don't do it… to be positive”
Source: You Are Always Innocent
“People optimize locally - that is, they do what's best for themselves.”
“People or friends these days uses two mobile numbers, two apps or applications, two social media accounts. They use the first one to talk to you and the second one to talk about you. Choose to trust no one.”
“People or philosophers keep saying that our fundamental objective in life is to be happy! This is wrong! Our fundamental objective in life is to exist, either happy or unhappy!”
“People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.”
Source: Poemas
“People or stars
Regards me sadly, I disappoint them.”
Source: Sylvia Plath - Selected Poems (Faber Poetry) by Sylvia Plath (3-Mar-2003) Paperback
“People order clothes out of a catalogue, put it on an actor and everything is generic.”
“People ought not to do that. To keep children from knowing things, I mean. They should tell the truth.”
Source: The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three
“People ought to be going over this, finding things they don't like. Congress has clearly proved they can act in a hurry. If there's something wrong with it, it can be amended. If something needs to be kicked in, it can be put in. If something needs to be taken out, it can be taken out.”
“People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.”
“People ought to fight
to keep their law
as to defend the citys walls.”
Source: Fragments
“People ought to have more control over their lives.”
“People ought to invest in us because they like our company and the way they run it. We still do quarterly earnings guidance, but we tell people openly that they ought to look at the company for the long term and that's how they ought to invest.”
“People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it.”
“People ought to quit talking to the press.”
“People ought to shop smart and really think about what they are buying.”
“People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.”
“People out there said I was too small. It's those kinds of moments that pushed me to be where I'm at right now.”
“People outgrow me,” he said, in the same blasé tone one might say, “That is a tall building.” He picked up a stick and chucked it into the water. “Everyone who ever loves me one day outgrows me.”
Source: Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
“people outside of mental institutions need to have good morals so that the world will continue to work without any major interruptions—and happy endings will flourish.”
“People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in order to make something good you need time.”
“People outside the industry pruriently ask how he gets through sex scenes, nudity, baring it physically. They miss the point.
Sure, that takes some courage. But, man, it’s ALL like that.
Try crying in front of sixty-three people, most of whom are there to do jobs like lighting your face so the tears are in focus while the snot and spit fall behind — or surrounding you with mics to make sure the sound of your sobbing, disconsolate self falling apart is picked up cleanly, so you won’t have to dub over it in post six months later. That crew of people, expertly watching you turn feral with the grief that’s causing your character to make monumentally bad decisions leading to the epiphany that finally turns it around in the third act. Could anything be more naked, more intimate than tearing your soul inside out in service to the
story?
It’s tantric.
Visceral.”
Source: Unbraiding: Actor | Producer | Father: A Story in Three Strands
“People outwardly project their innermost insecurities.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“People over 100 are the fastest-growing group in America. People soon will be working 'til 100 - some because they have to - and living 'til 125 or even 135. What do I know, I'm just a weatherman, but I've made a hobby of studying this, and it's phenomenal.”
“People over 30 are interested in sex too, but they get real movies about it.”
“People over 40 stay home and watch television, that's why there are no movies out there.”
“People over forty can seldom be convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”
Source: Magnetism
“People Over Path (The Sonnet)
Celebrities defend vanity,
Intellectuals defend intellect,
Preachers defend scriptures,
Scientists defend factual evidence.
I found plenty of human professions,
But in none of them I found a human.
All are obsessed to defend their path,
Yet all paths are dead without a human.
No matter who we are or what we are,
Above all else our identity is humanness.
If this simple fact is still not clear enough,
All vanity, intellect, texts and science are baseless.
Before defending a puny path, let us take a human peek.
If we must defend, let us defend the helpless and weak.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“People over profit always.”
“People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.”
“People over-focus on teachers as an excuse to avoid their own life, and that way they fail to take responsibility for themselves. They have this feeling that the teacher will just take care of them.”
“People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.”
“People overthink flowers. They are afraid to mix and match, so they don't do anything!”
“People parted, years passed, they met again- and the meeting proved no reunion, offered no warm memories, only the acid knowledge that time had passed and things weren't as bright or attractive as they had been.”
Source: Valley of the Dolls
“People paused to listen to Denise Chávez and she had them - with gum on her shoes, she had them. She said she stepped on gum when she came up to the stage and she couldn't move, so she had to stay in one spot otherwise people would see the Chiclet.”
“People pay a dear price when not dealing with the powerful emotions.”
“People pay a lot of fake money for old wine bottles filled with mystery fluid that they haven’t even tasted because it’s centuries old. So, I’m willing to bet people would spend even more fiat currency for new wine bottles filled with duck soup.”
Source: One Out of Ten Dentists Agree: This Book Helps Fight Gingivitis. Maybe Tomorrow I’ll Ask Nine More Dentists.: A BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm Production
“People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don't wanna know about your technical problems, or if you're not feeling good, they don't wanna know we have a glitch. It's their night, you better do something to earn that money.”
“People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me because I did things other men were afraid to do. That's why my fans identified with me.”
“People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see and experience things they cannot see and experience in their own lives.”