P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.”
Source: Treasury of Thought
“People travel to learn; most of them before they start should learn to travel.”
Source: Josh Billings' Wit and Humor
“People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.”
“People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.”
“People treat breaks differently: some as opportunities for growth; others as a time for fun; and yet more, including Ray, it seems, treat it as an excuse to shut down their minds completely.”
Source: In Limbo
“People treat having a kid as somehow retiring from success. Quitting. Have you seen a baby? They’re pretty cute. Loving them is pretty easy. Smiling babies should actually be categorized by the pharmaceutical industry as a powerful antidepressant. Being happy is really the definition of success, isn’t it?”
Source: Dad Is Fat
“People treat life as though it's the dress rehearsal for some big show. It's not. This is it.”
Source: Jane Seymour's Guide to Romantic Living
“People treat me like family, 'cause I've always treated them like family.”
“People treat people with mental illness terribly. Mental illness has become the modern-day version of leprosy.”
“People treat us the way we teach them to treat us.”
“People treat you according to your energy or what you put out there, so what I put out there is very open. I'm not paranoid or scared, I'm open. That's how I treat people, with respect and speak truthfully.”
“People treat you as badly as you let them treat you. Key word there: let.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“People treat you like s*** when you're a doorman or a busboy. I licked envelopes for eight hours a day for this management company and cried half the time I was there while the managers were on the phone working.”
“People treat you the way you treat yourself. So, when you humiliate yourself, they make sure you get the same treatment.”
Source: The Infinity Sign
“People treat you with as much, or as little respect as you allow them to.”
Source: Party Girl
“People treating their minds like bin, by keeping negative emotions for example jealousy and hatred, cannot experience happiness and peace.”
Source: Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
“People treating you differently, when you don't feel any different, is really alienating.”
“People tried and failed to combine the words Izzy and Ymir. The closest they came was Izmir, but that had been the name of a city in Turkey.”
Source: Seveneves
“People tried to do a lot of stuff with me early in my career where they tried to shape me into one thing or another. They couldn't just take the chance and go with my vision - which was just my intuition, really.”
“People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.”
“People tried to test me (in 1999) and I came up with some pretty good throws. Everybody on the team calls me 'Bazooka' now. That's kind of like a nickname I gave myself.”
“People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.”
“People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.”
“People trust me. I sell sincerity.”
“People trust people with dogs. They do. There’s an inherent belief that dog people are good people.”
Source: Someone in the Attic
“People trust that a guy who can bring up two kids on his own might be able to help them.”
“People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there”
Source: Shadows on the Moon
“People trust those leaders who show real results of their work, rather than those who just talk about the results.”
“People try all crazy stuff when they’re afraid to lose everything.”
“People try constantly to use me and I hate it.”
“People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.”
“People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.”
“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher—a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over...
We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical, ill-considered criticism. It's worse in the case of newspapers. Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own a paper that is the intellectual meat and drink of thousands of tired, hurried men, men too involved in the business of modern living to swallow anything but predigested food. For two cents the voter buys his politics, prejudices, and philosophy. A year later there is a new political ring or a change in the paper's ownership, consequence: more confusion, more contradiction, a sudden inrush of new ideas, their tempering, their distillation, the reaction against them-”
“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher -- a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for a short time. I didn't let go of my negative thoughts; I questioned them, and then they let go of me, and so did my addictions and depression.”
“People try to apply directly results from the cognitive neurosciences directly to classroom practice and I have to tell you I am very skeptical about the exercise. We don't know very much about how the brain works - we don't even know how you remember to write your name.”
“People try to be more edgy, or write about that first explosive meeting between two people in a club, but not so much the long-term issues; I don't know how to write a song about teenage heartbreak anymore.”
“People try to build their identity around external things such as appearance and the clothes at the expense of neglecting the inner values of who they really are”
“People try to challenge me in bars every now and then. As long as they're not physical I just walk away, but if they get physical then I just end up in a fight.”
“People try to change someone only to make them more suitable for themself.”
“People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't.”
“People try to control people by creating losses.”
“People try to create an outwardly perfect life, but the quality of life is based on the inward.”
“People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.”
“People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.”
Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury
“People try to get into your life. They try and keep you off-balance, keep you from making good decisions that will empower you - because if your attention field is sharp - you will see if anyone is in your life for ill reasons.”
“People try to hide the dirt in their heart with clean clothes, either consciously or subconsciously. That's why they pay more attention to clothes than character.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.”