P Quotes
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“People see rock and roll as, as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolised by big business, what are the youth to do? Do you, do you have any idea?
I think we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture.”
“people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.”
“People see so many things in the paintings. Although I never think of them, it charms me a little bit that people actually project actual scenarios on to the paintings. Hopefully that means that they have a little bit of life to them. Figuring out the rhythm, the structural element has been the key thing in this work, more than the color element. It really was the variety of different widths that lead to a certain movement, a rhythm. Otherwise I'd fall into anything that was too stripy or almost like bar codes, and it thwarted the natural flow of the painting.”
“People see stories everywhere," Regine says. "That's what my father used to say. We take random events and we string them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true." She glances back at Seth. "We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.”
“People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.”
“People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.”
“People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that people in high tech societies receive neither strong myths and stories from their culture nor the ability to construct their own... they lose the plot.”
“People see themselves as 'succeeding' because they are individually exceptional -- they don't see that there is a mechanism that has made it possible for them.”
“People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.”
“People see weakness in a woman and they want to help. They see weakness in a man and they want to stamp it out”
“People see what they want to see. People say what they like to say. People hear what they always try to listen. People always in busy to put you down or break you down. They won’t give you the courage to go ahead. They always after you and try their best to end you. But never give up. Never let yourself down. You should and must keep it in your mind.”
Source: 6th September: A Very Unknown Mysterious Story
“People see what they want to see, speak what they want to speak, but many are not interested in discovering the whole truth. We often cannot share it with them because they lack the patience to listen.”
“People see what they want to see when they need to.”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“People see what they want to see.”
“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
Source: The Night Circus
“People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.”
“People see you on screen and they like you, but they never really get a chance to meet you. When you're doing music, you know you have to go sit at in-stores, and you're actually in the street, so there's more of a hands-on kind of thing.”
“People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.”
“People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often.”
“People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.”
“People see your reviews sometimes, and it's so good that they think I wrote it. And I'm like, "OK, yeah, I wrote it. And I own the company that put it out."”
“People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life-physically and spiritually-and not on the priorities of death.”
Source: The Revolution of Hope
“People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies.”
“People seek for the spiritual champagne, but they mistake what it is.”
Source: America of the Fifties
“People seek methods of learning to know God. Is it not much shorter and more direct to simply do everything for the love of Him? There is no finesse about it. One only has to do it generously and simply.”
“People seek new jobs, cars, music systems, televisions or house because they are tired of the existing ones. Their boredom gets alleviated when they are looking at the various options available in the market for these things and then trying to figure out the finance part of it—to buy it with down payment or EMI—and dreaming of the joy of having new things in their lives. However, their boredom is back again once they get used to their new acquisition.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“People seek to put you in an off-balance situation so they can get to you. Psychic people, people who meditate, are more susceptible; they are more open and sensitive. It is easier to jam them.”
“People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.”
“People seeking to live spiritually must be concerned with their social and physical environment.”
Source: Global Healing: Essays and Interviews on Structural Violence, Social Development and Spiritual Transformation
“People seem able to love their dogs with an unabashed acceptance that they rarely demonstrate with family or friends. The dogs do not disappointment them, or, if they do, the owners manages to forget about it quickly. I want to learn to love people like this, the way I love my dog, with pride and enthusiasm and a complete amnesia for faults. In short, to love others the way my dog loves me.”
“People seem always actually to know, with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you are dressed in any particular way at all, you are revealed rather than hidden.”
Source: Seeing Through Clothes
“People seem generally happy to see their favorite world come to life, even if it it slightly changed to fit storytelling for television.”
“People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.”
Source: The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970
“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
“People seem to be awfully gullible. They'll believe anything. ~in The NPR Intreviews, 1996, edited by Robert Siegel”
“People seem to be doing different things, but in reality they do the same thing: They just rush about without having any outstanding universal goal!”
“People seem to be having these awesome sex lives and I'm just trying to find a life partner to go apple picking with. What's wrong with me?”
“People seem to be losing their sense of boundaries more and more, what people are willing to put up on the internet, especially blogs. People seem to assume that only their friends are going to read it but anyone in the world could read it at any time.”
“People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.”
“People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.”
“People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.”
“People seem to forget that Saddam was the only leader in the world who praised the attacks of 9/11 as a good thing.”
“People seem to forget what it was like to be a child. I think it's partly because they want to forget, because it usually wasn't as good as you thought it was, and so you want to skip over those things, and not have to relate to that anymore.”
“People seem to get caught up in jargon like they get caught up in ashrams and power structures and they never become free. They become masters of jargon and power structures.”
“People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“People seem to have acquired the idea that they have the inalienable right to stroll through life without either having sweated, picked up anything heavy, worked hard, or eaten less than they wanted at every meal. This approach is, of course, wrong. And it has resulted in a lot of expensive, unattractive, and entirely preventable problems amongst people who seem puzzled about why things aren't going well.”
“People seem to have an impressive capacity to change themselves if you believe in them, if you tell them they can and give them some help in doing so.”
“People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.”
“People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.”
Source: The Confessions of an Elderly Lady