P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People shouldn't have everything they want. No one is entitled to their every desire. To live in balance, we must willingly decide not to take all that we can from the world, and from others.”
Source: The Shadow of Kyoshi
“People shouldn’t look that scared of anything. There shouldn’t be things in the world capable of doing that to someone. The trouble is, I know exactly the kind of thing that could make someone that scared. I’ve seen them. I’ve been chased by them.", Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow”
Source: Fade
“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
“People shouldn't be afraid to bring up issues of bias in law enforcement.”
“People shouldn't be allowed to get married until it's too late to have kids.”
“People shouldn't be embarrassed just because they get caught acting a little silly.”
“People shouldn't be treated like objects. They aren't that valuable.”
Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People
“People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.”
Source: The wisdom of Narnia
“People shouldn't dwell on the past. It's enough to try your best in all that you're doing now.”
“People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.”
“People shouldn't find out how trashy I am.”
“People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.”
Source: Forever
“People shouldn't notice what you're wearing before they
notice you. You want people to register you first. 'Oh, what a nice jacket' should be an afterthought if you're doing it right.”
“People shouldn't read into venue locations someone's heart.”
“People shouldn't really have to think about an object when they are using it. Not having to think about it makes the relationship between a person and an object run more smoothly.”
“People shouldn't stay married because of the kids. That's torture for everyone.”
“People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.”
“People shouldn’t be ashamed of their bodies...especially women.”
“People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.”
“People show love and appreciation in different ways, you just have to learn their way.”
Source: Happy Relationships: 7 simple rules to create harmony and growth
“People show off to fill a void.”
“People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.”
“People show their priorities in what they choose to ignore.”
“People show you who they are, not by what they say, but by what they do.”
Source: Family Pictures
“People showed me this way of dealing with music, writing songs, thinking about music and shows and our community and the fact that it doesn't have to be about being popular or fashion or making money.”
“People shy away from it [MMA] because they think it's a brutal, brutal sport, and I've said, 'Guys, MMA is safer than football and boxing,... And people tell me they don't believe it. Am I not the most credible person to give you the answer to that?”
“People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.”
Source: 1984
“People simply don't make eye contact anymore.”
“People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.”
Source: The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey
“People sin in different ways, but it doesn’t mean they’re evil or corrupt.”
“People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song.”
“People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You're paying your membership dues in the human race.”
“People sitting all day for hours looking at a glowing light are bound to get ran over like a deer in headlights.”
“People skills are useless with cats, because cats are immune to training, and do whatever they decide in any situation... And most importantly they aren’t human.”
Source: Nothing is here...
“People skills are very crucial for the purpose of proper team building.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“People skills in leadership are not negotiable.”
“People slaving away at those jobs for a damn pittance, and still they were asked to do even more, always more, endlessly more. Many worked for five people’s worth of duties, and all they got in return was just enough money to pay rent and buy food to survive another month.
I didn’t even dare imagine what it felt like for them to have dreams, desires, longings – when they could barely breathe under that weight.”
Source: Where the Dark Knelt
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
“People smile at me as if they know me. I just smile back. They probably might know me.”
“People smile too much. I never understood it. Smiles should be saved for things that bring us real joy, and we give them away so easily, so carelessly. To strangers on the street—to people we don't even like.”
Source: The Wrong Heart
“People snapping up gossip mags of celebrities snapping their heels at the snapping paparazzi, and snapping them up even more (the mags) when they start snapping at them for snapping them.”
Source: I Mean It, Daphne!
“People snare when I tell them that I’m an emotional prostitute. But after my rebuttal, they begin to realize that they are one too. Like me, they have pimped their emotions for the affections of another. Like me, they’ve gone through life tormented by the idea of living a happily ever after, not realizing that the ever after isn’t so happy.”
Source: Diaries of an Emotional Prostitute
“People so far have been very fond of the Robert Altman movie, as I am, and when one things goes well it shines light on your other projects and now I seem to have a number of projects that are moving forward.”
“People so often loose sight of the magic in life once they understand how it works.”
“People so poor they can't even afford shame.”
Source: A Brief History of Seven Killings
“People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I love you, It doesn't mean I know you'll never go, Only that I wish you didn't have to.”
“People so staunch and true, they're fixated,
Shining with self-regard like polished stones.
And their whole life spent admiring themselves
For their own long-suffering.
Licking their wounds
And flashing them around like decorations.
I hate it, I always hated it, and I am
A part of it myself.”
Source: The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes
“people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.”
“People soften by the forced reflection that comes with loss.”