P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People say it's madness, Others call it danger, I call it Alternative Normality.”
Source: The Tide of the Pensieve
“People say it takes 10 years to change your life. It's bullshit. It takes a moment, a second. But it may take you 10 years to get to the point of finally saying, "Enough."”
“People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family.”
“People say it was the greatest individual rivalry they've ever seen. I agree with that. Let me assure you that if either Wilt's or Russ' coach had ever told one of them he couldn't guard the other guy, he would have lost that player forever.”
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.”
“People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.”
“People say it's better to know the truth, but what if the ending's a bad one? Is it still better to know? Or is it kinder to keep that string of hope dangling? To believe that maybe if you just wait long enough, everything could still end the way you want.”
Source: Touch Blue
“People say it's easy to make fun of retarded people, but it's not. You really have to explain it to them.”
“People say it's hard at the top, but it's even harder at the bottom.”
“People say it's lonely at the top, but I sure like the view.”
“People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people.”
“People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough. It was quite possible that the central event of your life could be something that didn't happen, or something you thought didn't happen. Otherwise there'd be no need for fiction, there'd only be memoirs and histories.”
Source: Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi: A Novel
“People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.”
“People say jazz puts them to sleep. As a master saxophone player, one who sounds like a duck quacking, I don't know if they're trying to insult me or insinuating they found a holistic solution to their insomnia. My music NOW comes in water-soluble tablets to be taken before bed.”
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 say karma's a bitch. Personally, I really don't think I'm that bad.”
Source: Karma
“People say keeping it real is a hard thing to do. Keeping it real is easy. Being fake and being soft is hard to do.”
“People say law but they mean wealth.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“People say:
'Let the facts speak for themselves'; they forget that the speech of facts is real only if it is heard and understood.”
Source: A Guide for the Perplexed
“People say life ain't fairlife is very fair. People aren't fairpeople are terrible.”
“People say life begins at conception, I say life began about a billion years ago and it's a continuous process.”
Source: 3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
“People say like, "I don't know how you do it. You must get no sleep." I actually do get the right amount of sleep every night. That's my rule. But if I'm writing until six in the morning I sleep until two in the afternoon and it's the only thing that keeps me healthy and sane.”
“People say love can be developed, but in the end only person you love is themselves. that’s why you choose to love someone who can please you the most. - Takumi”
Source: Nana, Vol. 14
“People say love can be developed, but in the end, the only person you love is yourself. That's why you choose to love someone who can please you the most.”
“People say love is a gift but i say love is a burden, loving someone and having to watch them be in love with someone else.”
“People say love is a gift
that saves a soul from
the depths of hell”
Source: Hearts On A Page, Volume Two
“People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.”
“People say love is the international language. I'd say jealousy and anger are also pretty articulate.”
Source: Little Boy Afraid
“People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the world and resonating globally. You should think about what is behind Malala's voice. What is she saying? I am only talking about education, women's rights, and peace.”
“People say many things, but at the end of the day people can say what they want.”
“People say mental hospitals are for the patients, in fact they are to protect society from them. They are justified in doing that. Society has to do what is best for itself.”
“People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized and read poetry; it was one of the things you were forced to learn. Now it has tiny role in school.”
“People say money ain't nothing; money is basically everything.”
“People say, most politicians are corrupt – they say, most policemen are corrupt – but never even for a second, they think, what exactly they would do, if they were in their position.”
Source: Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana
“People say mountains change in about ten years. If something as stubborn and mammoth as a mountain can change in a decade, the hearts of ordinary North Koreans can change. I'm sure of it. I'm living proof." --Ha Young, a North Korean defector”
Source: North Korea's Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society
“People say mountains change in about ten years. If something as stubborn and mammoth as a mountain can change in a decade, the hearts of ordinary North Koreans can change. I'm sure of it. I'm living proof." --Ha Young, a North Korean defector interviewed in Jieun Baek's book "North Korea's Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground is Transforming a Closed Society”
Source: North Korea's Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society
“People say my content's mature, I don't think it's mature at all. I'm just a normal 20 year old. I'm opinionated.”
“People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me.”
“People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get these ideas that I truly fall in love with. And a good movie idea is often like a girl you're in love with, but you know she's not the kind of girl you bring home to your parents, because they sometimes hold some dark and troubling things.”
“People say- 'NASA lies.' I say- 'the moon knows it all. Look at the moon and forget the spinning flat world.”
“People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.”
“People say nice things to me -- like that I ought to run for president -- which tells me that they like me. But I have my own deadline for how long I should be in Washington. I think you can get accustomed to red tape and many unfair things that go on in government. Once you stop getting angry about inefficiencies, waste, and injustice, you ought to get out. That's my time limit.”
“People say not to judge a book by its cover, but what if you somehow read the inside of the book without seeing the cover first? And what if you really liked what was inside the book? Of course when you go to close the book and are about to see the cover for the first time, you hope it's something you'll find attractive. Because who wants an incredibly written book sitting on their bookshelf if they have to stare at a shitty cover?”
Source: November 9
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
“People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.”
Source: Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler
“People say parenting is the hardest job in the world - they're wrong - growing up is. We all just forget how hard it was.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2 and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 2 Books Bundle Collection
“People say parents die a little when they lose a child. But that’s not true.
They die twice. Once when their child dies. And again when they do.”
Source: No Operator on Board: Pushback
“People say photographs don't lie, mine do.”
“People say - popular culture advocates - government demands that we sell our souls, for nothing but the cheapest of baubles and bling, if even that. If you do sell, the result is a gray, cheerless, and dreary existence.”
“People say pot-smokers are lazy. I disagree; I'm a multitasking pot-smoker: just the other day I was walking down the street, I was putting eyedrops in my eyes, I was talking on my cell phone, and I was getting hit by a car.”
“People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.”