P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People were never my need. Perspectives were. Hearts were. Souls were. People beyond people were.”
Source: Cardiophoros
“People were never supposed to live in cities. They gathered together since they were scared and then living like that only made them more and more afraid.”
Source: My Abandonment
“People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.”
Source: Love at Second Sight
“People were not getting back what they wanted for their sold labor. Taxes grew and services shrank. Prices rose and quality decayed. Everywhere people felt used and betrayed and coerced and cheated.”
Source: Dance the Eagle to Sleep
“People were odd. Sam loved and loathed that about them. Fiction was fine, but real life was the true freak show.”
Source: Emergency Contact
“People were paid lots of money to make stupid decisions, people in big banks, and when people are paid to be stupid they'll be stupid. The question was, did they know they were being stupid or were they just stupid? I think you need to take it on a case by case basis. There was some sinister activity, but I think by and by it was people being incentivised to do the wrong thing.”
“People were people.”
Source: Chronicles, Volume One
“People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant.”
“People were really staying away from me. And that's kind of when I split up with all my best friends at school - they were going, "Something's happened to her, she's totally weird" - and found my new friends, who were Beatles fans.”
“People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous.”
Source: I Can't Believe I Said That!
“People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.”
“People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.”
“People were so cheap there... they ate beans to save on bubble bath.”
“People were so easy to predict if one only paid attention to their lips. Most people told their stories there without even needing to open their mouths.”
Source: The Paragon
“People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.”
“People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never occurred to them that plants were actually living things, busily performing all the living functions of respiration, ingestion, excretion, reproduction---and defense.”
Source: Michael Crichton's Jurassic World
“People were so often mean that when they weren’t, there was a tendency to bestow sainthood upon them. Aster did not reward common decency with her affection.”
Source: An Unkindness of Ghosts
“People were so oversensitive to the supposed overfishing of sharks. As if it wasn't the height of hubris to decide that humanity needed to be put into the position of custodian to the height of apex predators. God had made man to fight and defeat his other creations. Why else would he have made his chosen children physically weak, but mentally strong? In the battle between man and shark, the shark should always have won. That it didn't, proved only that man was intended to be victorious and that he should be allowed to kill whatever he could before he, in turn, was killed.”
Source: Into the Drowning Deep
“People were standing up everywhere shouting, "This is me! This is me!" Every time you looked at them they stood up and told you who they were, and the truth of it was that they had no more idea who or what they were than he had. They believed their flashing signs, too. They ought to be standing up and shouting, "This isn't me! This isn't me!" They would if they had any decency. "This isn't me!" Then you might know how to proceed through the flashing bullshit of this world.”
“People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a library.”
“People were supposed to cry at weddings; they just weren't supposed to cry because they suspected that the bride was going to die.”
Source: Enchanted
“People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back.”
“People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.”
“People were to be happy not to the extent they dominated their fellow creatures on the earth, but to the extent they lived in balance with them”
Source: Ecotopia
“People were touchingly naive at the dawn of the Internet revolution when they said the Internet will route around censorship the way it routes around damage. With any revolution, the establishment catches up and figures out how to screw it up. The answer is to keep technology advancing fast enough so that those who would try to control it can't. It's up to people to defend what they care about. We shouldn't be complacent that this stuff is going to be a force for good.”
“People were upset about Trump's win in 2016 because he ran a campaign promising to implement policies that targeted racial and ethnic minorities with state violence (and he did) not simply because he was mean or rude. In no sense is Biden's campaign comparable. Sorry!
Biden won't be banning Christians, arbitrarily revoking the status of white immigrants here because of natural disasters, trying to sell off white populated parts of the country or encouraging police brutality against white people. Your disappointment is not oppression.
(11/9/2020 on Twitter)”
“People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.”
“People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.”
“People were very passionate and over the top about showing me their love and affection and they memorized my songs in Spanish.”
“People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.”
“People were wondering why the Desoto Solar Farm community opening had been canceled and replaced by a small group of invite only guests with President Obama.”
“People were, in good faith perhaps, writing history books about the Indian working class, Indian peasantry, et cetera, and at no point did Communists make an entry, not even to be criticized. They were essentially being whitewashed from history.”
“People weren't just angry about it. They were still afraid. Fear is a powerful, often irrational emotion, and mass fear... has the power to shake any society to its core. As long as the world remembered, they would live in fear of all cryptids-- regardless of whether or not any individual among us was truly dangerous.
Of course, not everyone supported stripping cryptids of all right. But dissenters were few among a dangerous and violent many, and most ignored the problem.
Submission was the only solution they could conceive of to fix my problem. But with the imprint of Clyde's fist still throbbing in my stomach I was less interested in fixing a problem than in becoming one.”
Source: Menagerie
“People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.”
“People weren't firecrackers who burst into the night sky with brilliance and glory, and a moment later faded away to nothing. Our souls had to be more lasting than that.”
Source: Just One Wish
“People weren't meaning to be racist, but they didn't know. Action signals change, not intent. So when someone feels like they're not getting a fair shake, you gotta speak on it.”
“People when they're growing up they just want to fit in, there are a lot of social pressures on young people today to kind of have it all figured out and know what they want to do, know who they are straight away and I've always tried to embrace that sense of pressure, but I've got people around me that do as well.”
“People where I live are born in cradles, then grow up in boxes, then die in coffins. From cradle to coffin--they exist in boxes. And they wish that I join them, sometimes they try, but then I bite their fingers off.”
“People where you live grow five thousand roses in one garden...yet they don't find what they are looking for.”
Source: The Little Prince
“People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for... They don't find it," I answered. And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..." Of course," I answered. And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.”
“People which deserv support are people like
Vsauce (A guy who I don't know how to describe... but as overall awesome character.)
Rob Dyke (How he won't deserv one support or many?)... what he is doing is blowing mind it's about Anatomy of Murder and Serial KIllers files... that's crazy. And the best of all you can find a lot of information about many prisoners.”
“People whine, 'I haven't succeeded because I haven't had the breaks.' You create your own breaks.”
“People whistle me because I am good-looking, rich and a great footballer. They are jealous of me.”
“People whistle or sing while passing near a cemetery in the darkness! The same thing is happening now: The fear of coronavirus pushes people to give morale to themselves!”
“People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.”
Source: Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future
“People who - and I think that's been a huge education for me. I think it's a - it's a privilege to be able to meet such a broad cross-section of New York and increasingly the world, and to get a feel of how people respond to visual culture.”
“People who abandon you at your slightest mistake are not your people.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.”
“People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.”
Source: The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy
“People who accomplish big things did small things well.”