P Quotes
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“People seem to overlook an old man losing his mind if he occasionally made light of it.”
Source: Cinder
“People seem to really enjoy laughing at me.”
“People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.”
“People seem to think fighters are lovely people when they meet us. It's 'cause we don't have to prove anything.”
“People seem to think I'm Satan.”
“People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.”
Source: Banksy: wall and piece
“People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.”
“People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.”
“People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.”
“People seem to think that my movies are so carefully coordinated and arranged - and in a lot of ways, they are - but every single time I make a movie, I feel that every director makes these choices. You make choices about your script, you make choices about your actors, and how you're going to stage it, and how you're going to shoot it, and what the costumes are going to be like, and in every single detail, you make that decision. And for me, what ends up happening is, I wind up surprised at the combination of all these ingredients. It never is anything like what I expected.”
“People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.”
“People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.”
“People seem to think themselves in some ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about them. And yet it is not the devil for certain who puts pity into their hearts.”
“People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.”
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
“People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.”
“People seem to think, because of the way that the media has appropriated third-wave feminism or young feminism, that all young feminists are about is like pole dancing and girls gone wild and how empowering it is. Like they'll start calling anything feminist.”
“People seem to trust you more when you're pregnant. I think they see you as some kind of Mother Earth figure.”
“People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.”
“People seem very arrogant when they say 'I'm right and you're wrong', but in practice we all believe we're right. We have a staggering arrogance in our own belief. That can be tempered by not being 100% certain; by being provisional. No matter what the debate is, very few people have the modesty to suspend judgement on a whole range of things; most intelligent people have an opinion and are expected to have an opinion by other people - but it always requires making a personal judgement that goes way-beyond your expertise. We do it all the time.”
“People seem very comfortable having a kind of Cheesecake Factory-type of life.”
“People seem weak, but they're strong. They seem strong, but they're weak.”
“People seem weak, but they’re strong. They seem strong, but they’re weak. No matter how much you cry, you still have to sleep. And you even get hungry. You suddenly realize you’re doing the same things you did yesterday. You say hi to your friends and smile just like you did yesterday. Life goes on as if nothing ever happened… I want to go somewhere… Anywhere… Somewhere where I can forget everything. …where I’ll forget everything …and be reborn. Mars Volume 18”
“People seemed to think, you get to a certain age or you get married or you, you're comfortable. And so now there's nothing to write about: that angst is gone. The youthful angst. And that just hasn't happened with me.”
“People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels: The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds…
“People seize to investigate the truth when things are been repeated constantly.”
“People seldom appreciate the pain they've caused until that pain is visited upon them. This is not vengeance. It is education.”
“People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.”
“People seldom change. Only their masks do. It is only our perception of them and the perception they have of themselves that actually change.”
“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”
“People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.”
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes
“People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems.”
“People seldom live up to their baby pictures.”
“People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.”
“People seldom pay for what you have, they pay for what they want.”
“People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.”
“People seldom recognize opportunity for it comes disguised as hard work.”
“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”
“People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.”
“People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“People seldom tell you the other side of the story.”
“People sell their soul in such small quantities - a seemingly trivial compromise here, a rationalization of a minor evil there - that they don't realize what they're doing until it is too late.”
“People send everyone hate mail. That's the way the world works right now, I'm nothing special.”
“People send me e-mails saying, "You're a movie critic. You don't know anything about politics." Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.”
“People serve you the poison and believe your death to be a mistake of yours by choosing to consume the poison”
“People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.”
“People settle for so much less because they find their identities in the world's fickle and untrue opinions. God made you royal with His blood. Live.”
“People," Shai said, rising to fetch another seal, "by nature attempt to exercise power over what is around them. We build walls to shelter us from the wind, roofs to stop the rain. We tame the elements, bend nature to our wills. It makes us feel as if we're in control.
"Except in doing so, we merely replace one influence with another. Instead of the wind affecting us, it is a wall. The fingers of man's influence are all about, touching everything. Man-made rugs, man-made food. Every single thing in the city that we touch, see, feel, experience comes as the result of some person's influence.
"We may feel in control, but we never truly are unless we understand people. Controlling our environment is no longer about blocking the wind, it's about knowing why the serving lady was crying last night, or why a particular guard always loses at cards. Or why your employer hired you in the first place.”
Source: Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
“people share a common nature but are trained in gender roles.”
“People share a universal behavioural trait: if there are profits to be made, the effort to get that money will attract investment. This is true in the private sector, the market sector, as well as the public sector.”