P Quotes
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“People say that scars are the sign of victory; the winning marks against what broke them. But how about the wound that never heals? What would that make you? A winner, a loser, a survivor?”
Source: I Won't Break
“People say that she is the most beautiful
Let me see if I can look at her without batting an eyelid
People say that she is the most graceful
Let me see if I can get touched by her gracefulness
People say that she is the most charming
Let me see if her charms can touch my heart
People say that she is the most alluring
Let me see if her allure can pervade my being
People say that she is the most scintillating
Let me see if her light can touch my soul!”
“People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.”
“People say that steadiness of mind is an end; no, it is a beginning. I am there; I can explain everything up to that point. Then I struggle to discover what comes after, so this steadiness is not an end, it is the beginning and the instrument.”
Source: Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar
“People say that the Bible is a boring book...but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare.”
“People say that the brain is a muscle and that one of the best exercises for any brain is learning another language and to switch from one to another as much as you can. I've found out that when I have trouble regarding any character or any particular scene in English, sometimes I'll switch to Spanish and I'll solve the problem that I've encountered. If I'm working in Spanish and I don't know how to approach certain scenes or certain emotions, or how to say this and that, I just switch to English to try to solve it that way and it works.”
“People say that the largest sexual organ is the brain, and I think the fact that they definitely amuse each other is probably the strongest glue in that relationship.”
“People say that the monetary system produces incentive. This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy, anger, crime, war, poverty, tremendous scarcity, and unnecessary human suffering. You have to look at the entire picture.”
“People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.”
“People say that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Well, I can tell you, when a woman has a family, the way to her heart is through her dirty dishes. It's not easy to let God in when you've got a bunch of rug rats who need feeding and a trash can fill of diapers.
[Rachel Nelson]”
Source: Black Widows
“People say that they like the characters that they believe that I am. But, I don't as much. I like the characters that I believe that I am not. Like my role on 'Law and Order.' That character unnerved people. And I loved every second of it. I want to continue growing as an actress. There are ways that I can reach quicker, or deeper, with acting.”
“People say that they work to make money to have more time later to do what they want…only to find out that the same work they do gives them less time. There's a better way.”
“People say that they wouldn't pay to watch me play, but even I wouldn't pay to watch him play!”
“People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.”
“People say that time heals all wounds, and maybe they're right. But whit if the wounds don't heal correctly, like when cuts leave behind nasty scars, or when broken bones mend together, but aren't as smooth anymore? Does it mean they're really healed? Or is it that the body did what it could to fix what broke.”
“People say that time is a great healer. Which people? What are they talking about? I think some feelings you experience in your life are written in indelible ink and the best you can hope for is that they fade a little over the years.”
Source: I Don't Know how She Does it: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother
“People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.”
Source: Invisibility
“People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.”
“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”
Source: The Power of Myth
“People say that when a baby is crying the paternal grandmother will say, "The baby is crying, you should feed her," and the maternal grandmother will say, "Why is that baby crying so much, making her mom so tired?”
“People say, that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you, doesn't kill you.”
Source: Silver Sparrow
“People say that you always have to tell the truth. But they do not mean this because you are not allowed to tell old people that they are old and you are not allowed to tell people if they smell funny or if a grown-up has made a fart. And you are not allowed to say, 'I don't like you,' unless that person has been horrible to you.”
“People say that you can't change people's minds with a movie or book, but how do they get formed in the first place? They get formed by what we see and read. In a certain way, movies are ahead of their times. People make them and don't really know if the audience will respond to them. Once in a while, they do.”
“People say that you want to be varied in your career, and I've done so many things and am very appreciative. But, the one thing I've never done and wanted to do was to be a regular on a TV show, where you get 22 weeks of the year to develop and play a character. I've done arcs of five or eight episodes on shows, but I'd like to have a character that's rich enough and deep enough to want to explore and live with for a few years. Playing the same character, but doing different scenes seems very exciting to me.”
“People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.”
“People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.”
“People say the cross is a sign of how much man is worth. That’s not true. The cross is a sign of how depraved we really are, that it took the death of God’s own Son. The only thing that could save a people like us was the death of God’s own Son under the wrath of His own Father paying the price, rising again from the dead. Powerful to say, this is the Gospel of Jesus.”
“People say the customer is always right, but you know what - they're not. Sometimes they are wrong and they need to be told so.”
“People say the day your baby is born is the happiest day of your life. It certainly is for the dads. Call me crazy if you want, but the day I watched my doctor sew stitches into my torn vagina was not my favorite.”
Source: Don't Dance on the Toilet, and Other Things I Never Thought I'd Say to My Kids
“People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery.”
Source: Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not
“People say the Internet's made of cats. The reason isn't because of cats; it's because people like to have an emotion where they say 'aww' all at the same time.”
“People say the media is feeding the public's hunger for celebrity news, but that's the drug pusher's mentality. I don't think anybody would be pining for news about Angelina Jolie's babies if it weren't being given to them in the first place.”
“People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.”
“People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.”
“People say the war in Iraq is a bad war, and the war in Afghanistan is a good war, but what's the difference between them? Democratic people around the world cannot accept that this is a good war. This is just endless war.”
“People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic.”
“People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.”
“People say there's a book in everyone but I'm not sure there is. There might be a pamphlet in me.”
“People say there's delays on flights. Delays, really? New York to California in five hours, that used to take 30 years, a bunch of people used to die on the way there, have a baby, you would end up with a whole different group of people by the time you got there. Now you watch a movie and [go to the toilet] and you're home.”
“People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.”
“People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love. And [he] found a certain love with [her], a grateful love, a deep but quiet love, one that he knew, above all else, was irreplaceable.”
“People say they are alone. But to whom do they say that? (Les gens disent qu'ils sont seuls. - Mais à qui le disent-ils?)”
“People say they can do great things, but runners never become runners until they run, and you will never become whatever it is you wish to be, unless you do it by taking that first step.”
“People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.”
“People say, "they have no idea how bad they hurt me."
Yes, they do, love.
They know exactly how bad they hurt you.
That's why they disappeared.
It's hard to look at someone when you know you destroyed them. So, don't ever think someone doesn't know.
But learn to be better than that.”
“People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.”
“People say they miss the deceased. I missed my father and my mother when they were still fully alive. They travelled through my childhood in the same way they moved around the hotel: my mother industrious, hurried, hidden; my father drunk, flamboyant, alone.”
Source: Undressing Emmanuelle: A memoir
“People say they throwing a bboy jam but it is really a bboy competition, there's a difference! Call it the correct thing, please!”
“People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.”
“people say they want love,
but they go into relationships asking…
what can you do for me?
what can i get out of you?
who can you be for me?
that's need. and i just think love is
something different. i think it asks different
questions. i think it looks for different things.
like…
what is this feeling with you?
what can unfold between us?
i want to know who you are.”
Source: wild spirit, soft heart