P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People want you to be ordinary. They don't like it when people are different. They don't like it when a man soars over their heads while they stand in the dirt. People hate you when you're special; it reminds them of everything that they aren't.”
“People want you to be the ambassador of everything. This happens to me especially when I go to Europe. I have to be the ambassador of everything. I learned this from Elena Poniatowska - intelligent woman, great lady, one of my heroes, one of my spiritual mentors, I love her. Someone is in this big museum and they ask her, "Elenita, what do you think about Mexican women . . ." And she says, "I haven't a clue!"”
“People want you to fail.”
“People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself.”
“People want you to produce records. They don't care what it took to make it. When a band is out doing concerts, the fans don't want to know about equipment difficulties. They want their hour-and-a-half release, and that's it.”
“People want your Glory, but they don't want your Story.
They want your Blessings, but they don't want your burdens.
People want to have what you have, but they don't want to go through the fire you went through to get it.”
“people wanted escape, not truth; perfection, not reality. They had more than enough reality to deal with.”
Source: The City Inside
“People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense.”
Source: Wintersmith: (Discworld Novel 35)
“People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in.”
“People wanted to be redeemed, she thought. Everyone did. We're only human.”
Source: Somebody Else's Daughter
“People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something that's just a tad more normal.”
“People wanted to have fun more than they wanted to learn from their music, and that's where the shift started to happen.”
“People wanted to me to describe more about what I call "the container," and then describe what the second half of life feels like.”
“People wanted to meet celebrities, all Sia wanted and wished for is to somehow get to meet a criminal”
Source: Yours Legally
“People wanted to move to America because of Michael Jackson. Industry changed, the music industry changed, because of Michael Jackson. That's a gift to us, and, you know, I am concerned that the Good Lord may not send another one because we did not take good care of him.”
“People wanted to see Rey Mysterio and PsIcosis in a match, and we had such a great chemistry. I don't think there was anyone at that time who could match what we were bringing to the table.”
“People wanted to vote for us but the mechanics of getting the voters to the polling stations we didnt have. We did not have the money most of all .”
“People wants social media
social media is for painting the picture of fake life.”
“People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.”
“People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.”
Source: She's Come Undone
“People waste time to bring circumstances together. Nature itself brings circumstances together.”
Source: The Science Of Karma
“People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It.”
“People watch me when I get into these characters that I have in my head, so perhaps I should try acting. So I did.”
“People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.”
“People watch more documentaries too now. These movies that would normally be shown in these little art houses, and unless you walked by the theater, or happened to read that tiny zine that contained the info for it, or went to a film festival, you might miss it.”
“People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed to think certain ways or that they're not supposed to think, basically, and they don't.”
“People watch my unique style of play, and they want to know my top three golf influences. That's easy. John Daly, practicing daily, and an orange and white cat surrounded by yellow ducklings.”
Source: To be good at golf you must go full koala bear
“people watch one good film and start thinking that life is worth living”
“People watch three or four episodes at a time of their shows.”
“People watch what you do more than listen to what you say.”
“People watched the Masters. It was a huge event. It was at The Garden. Now that it is over here in Europe, it has lost a little bit of popularity in the States.”
“People we are emotionally open to and close to affect us more than most people realize. If you are emotionally open to people, you will find yourself experiencing the mindset of others.”
“People we associate with influence the direction our life takes. And so often in life, success flows from not leaving our friendships to chance, and consciously choosing friends we need in our life.”
“People we love do disappoint us (...). We don't have to love them less for it. Maybe we have to love them more.”
Source: Girl Runner
“People we love have difficult feelings. That's not something to fix or run away from. But accepting that can take practice if you grew up learning that painful feelings were some kind of failure.”
Source: Notes From Your Therapist
“People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.”
Source: My Life and Some Letters
“People wealth consists upon their freedom, individual resources and good social life.”
Source: ZAMANISM Wealth of the People
“People wear masks for two reasons (1) To avoid COVID-19, and to hide one's ugly face.”
“People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.”
“People wears a mask of lie so they look attractive , so be careful”
“People weep at music all the time, because music gives form to some abstract level of integration.”
“People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.”
Source: Les Misérables
“People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started.”
“People went out there and they wrote articles and went on television shows saying that I am an operative that the CIA who used Jon Stewart to recruit me. So Jon Stewart, who actually - a guy from America was used by the CIA in order to recruit me for the CIA and be - make me a CIA agent to use sarcasm to bring down the government and bring down the country because this was all, of course, part of a worldwide conspiracy against the country.”
“People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life.”
“People went to bed when the sun went down and they woke up when the sun came up. That's what our bodies are naturally programmed to do. However, with all the new stresses in life with electricity, with technology, we tend to override that system and we'll stay up later and we'll get up earlier or later, and we use alarm clocks, we use the light.”
“People went to Dell for the computers, but they go to Apple for everything… That’s the difference between a transactional company and a transformational one.”
“People went to war as a result of it and even today, every Sunday, the Bible in translation is being read to thousands and thousands in Africa. It is an integral part of their functioning and the way they look at the world.”
“People were actually 6 times more likely to buy a jar of jam if they had encountered 6 than if they encountered 24, so what we learned from this study was that while people were more attracted to having more options, that's what sort of got them in the door or got them to think about jam, when it came to choosing time they were actually less likely to make a choice if they had more to choose from than if they had fewer to choose from.”
“People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.”