P Quotes
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“People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.”
“People talk to pets and babies to stop themselves going mad.”
Source: The Machine
“People talk too much, humans aren't descended from monkeys, they're descended from parrots.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“People talk worse about people than they talk good about people, because a lot of people like drama.”
“People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.”
“People talked about being a parent, or being a mother or a father. We don't talk about "wiving" our husbands or "friending" our friends, or "childing" our parents. We just talk about being in a relationship with those people. You don't measure whether your marriage was good based on whether or not your husband is better now than he was 10 years ago, or whether your friend is richer than when they first became your friend. The relationships between parents and children is a kind of love, rather than a kind of work.”
“People talked about loneliness as if it were something alive and it could get you. But loneliness is something dead, it's deadness. Lonely people are slowly dying people.”
Source: Tender
“People talked more openly to a psychiatrist than they did to a priest because a doctor couldn't threaten them with Hell”
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
“People talked so foolishly, I thought, about the ennobling effects of suffering. No doubt the philosophy that tells you your soul grows through grief and sorrow is right--ultimately. But I don't think this is the case at first. At first, pain beyond a certain point merely makes you lifeless, and apathetic to everything but itself.”
Source: Testament of Youth
“People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.”
“People talking about politics usually start from the ass end backwards in that they think you have a political agenda, and then you make your work fit that cookie cutter. It's the other way around. One works by simple observation, looking into things. It's usually called insight and out of that comes your view - not that you have the view first and then squash everything to make it fit. I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.”
“People talking about you is far more effective
than talking about yourself.”
“People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence.”
“People taught me to fail, and God taught me to succeed and overcome the failures.”
“People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.”
“People teach what they most need to learn.”
Source: Attitudes of Gratitude, 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life
“People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals.”
“People tell all kinds of lies to save their skins.”
Source: Book of Wisdom
“People tell each other stories in order to become friends. But what happens when one of those friends is gone? I don’t know, but maybe those stories help us reach catharsis.”
“People tell journalists their stories as characters and dreams deliver their elliptical messages: without warning, without context, without concern for how odd they will sound when the dreamer awakens and repeats them.”
Source: The Journalist And The Murderer
“People tell me all the time that my songs help them express things to loved ones that they may not be able to say themselves.”
“People tell me I am brave. People tell me I am strong. People tell me good job. Well here is the truth of it. I am really not that brave, I am not really that strong, and I am not doing anything spectacular. I am just doing what God called me to do as a follower of Him. Feed His sheep, do unto the least of His people.”
“People tell me I excel in Public Relations, what I suck at are private affairs.”
Source: Deviații de stereo
“People tell me I have the best job in the world, which is true, but I also work with some of the best people in the world.”
“People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty-five... It's all about attitude. To me, age is just a number.”
“People tell me I look mournful. They say, "Cheer up, Dan, it's not that bad!" Sometimes, I just look into space, which freaks people out. If I was ever required to do anything other than look haunted, I could. I'm a happy person.”
“People tell me I need an assistant, but I dont want one.”
“People tell me I saved hundreds and hundreds of people. But I have to tell you: it’s not the people you saved that you remember. It’s the ones you couldn’t save. Those are the ones you talk about. Those are the faces and situations that stay with you forever.”
“People tell me I'm a comedian, but I don't approach acting from that perspective. I do know that everything in life has to do with your timing and perception. You have to be comfortable with the rhythm that you're in. You can't just jump into a fast rhythm if yours is slow. You might have to pick up the pace but in your own particular way. It has to do with personality, too.”
“People tell me I'm a perfectionist. They tell me I'm too extreme and that I work too hard. I tell them, that is all I know how to do. I was taught to give my best effort in everything I do and demand perfection and raise the standard of excellence to a whole new level.”
“People tell me I'm dancing better than ever. I don't know what happened, but I have new enthusiasm and more endurance.”
“People tell me I'm in a genre kind of movie, but it never crossed my mind that The Matrix was genre. To me it was about, for me anyway, my character, I had this rock outside my door which said "faith" or "believe" or something, and I remember felt like that was my key into her, into Trinity. It was like she was the heart of it.”
“People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight as a player. There was a clause in my contract that said I had to weigh in at 270 every Friday morning. I always made it. I'd have dinner on Monday, and then I wouldn't eat until Friday.”
“People tell me it was a great left hook, but I wouldn't know. I never saw it”
“People tell me it's a sin, to know and feel too much within.”
“People tell me judge not lest ye be judged. I always tell them, twist not scripture lest ye be like satan”
“People tell me not to do a soap, but it was a great learning experience because I became familiar with the technical aspects of the business. Besides, look who came out of soaps - Julianne Moore, Demi Moore, Tommy Lee Jones, Parker Posey, Kathleen Turner. All amazing people.”
“People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word.”
“People tell me that I'm always smilin' on the court. I don't think about it. I just get emotional out there.”
“People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them: How do you think I got the job?”
“People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow.”
Source: Co-operation and Nationality: A Guide for Rural Reformers from this to the Next Generation
“People tell me the Netflix series, House of Cards, is sort of like my class come to life. The movie Margin Call portrays the realities of hierarchical relationships and rivalries beautifully, and how people respond when under pressure. Gandhi and Long Walk to Freedom both have the virtue of presenting larger-than-life figures in a more realistic way, showing their flaws and contradictions - their humanity - in a way that is very helpful.”
“People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.”
“People tell me they don’t know whom to believe anymore; they are confused. I tell them to believe the people who preach in their mosques and say on TV that they want to kill them. They usually follow through.”
Source: Because They Hate
“People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul.”
“People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.”
“People tell me they want to make the Bible relevant. Nonsense. The Bible's already relevant. You're the one that's irrelevant!”
“People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge.”
“People tell me to smile, I tell them the lack of emotion on my face doesn't mean I'm unhappy.”