P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.”
“People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.”
“People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.”
“People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.”
Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty
“People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“People who are wrong during particularly important moments inevitably spend the rest of their lives trying to explain how their wrongness was paradoxically correct, or-at the very least-why their wrongness "felt right at the time," which is very, very different from being authentically correct.”
Source: Downtown Owl: A Novel
“People who aren't afraid to live aren't afraid to die.”
Source: Flight through Fire
“People who aren't steeped in software often have an unrealistically non-horrified view of software quality.”
“People who aren't addicts want to know why I became one. They ask whether I had a midlife crisis. I'm only speaking for myself now, but I've stopped asking why and how. It's all about surrender and acceptance. It doesn't matter why I am an addict.”
“People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.”
“People who aren't minorities don't know what its like to be one. Of course they'll say, "He must've done something," because they're taught to believe that if you're targeted by the police that you've done something.”
“People who aren't perhaps that into sport are going to be following me and wanting to be part of the Olympics. That definitely does bring added pressure but as an athlete the Olympics are the ultimate competition.”
“People who ask "Can I ask you a question?" Didn't really give me a choice, did ya there buddy?”
“People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence.”
“People who ask for your criticism want only praise.”
“People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.”
“People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.”
“People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other words, people - rather than quilts or quilting.”
Source: The Quilter's Legacy: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel
“People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.”
Source: We cannot live without our lives
“People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.”
“People who avoid putting in the work for their healing will often blame others and hold themselves to higher expectations, yet fail to correct themselves in order to become better than they were yesterday.”
“People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.”
“People who base success on the here and now, have no hope for keeping it for long. True success takes on a life of its own. The beauty of that life is, it can be immortal. If you nurture, cultivate, build, and believe in the power of a successful life, it will live on well past the person who conceived it.”
Source: Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments into Your Greatest Blessings
“People who base their self-worth on being right about everything prevent themselves form learning from their mistakes. They lack the ability to take on new perspectives and empathize with others. They close themselves off to new and important information. It's far more helpful to assume that you're ignorant and don't know a whole lot. This keeps you unattached to superstitious or poorly informed beliefs and promotes a constant state of learning and growth.”
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
“People who become great leaders are those who take time to reflect every day on the big questions: Who am I? What is my purpose? Who are my heroes in history, mythology, and religion? What are my unique talents and how do I express them? These are the qualities of silent reflection that make a great leader, like Jesus.”
“People who become important activists, they also struggle with the process of discovery.”
“People who become successful take every “today’s victory” as a rehearsal for tomorrows trophy.”
Source: 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
“People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.”
“People who begin sentences with "I may be old-fashioned but--" are usually not only old-fashioned but wrong. I never thought the time would come when I should catch myself leading off with that crack. But I feel it coming on right now.”
Source: Chips Off the Old Benchley
“People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.”
“People who behave rarely make history.”
“People who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it.”
“People who believe getting married changes nothing but marital status are heavily mistaken.”
“People who believe I'm an idiot don't hire me and they don't call.”
“People who believe in 'universal health care' show remarkably little interest - usually none - in finding out what that phrase turns out to mean in practice, in those countries where it already exists, such as Britain, Sweden or Canada. For one thing, 'universal health care' in these countries means months of waiting for surgery that Americans get in a matter of weeks or even days.”
“People who believe in a divine creator, trying to live their lives in obedience to his supposed wishes and in expectation of a supposed eternal reward, are victims of the greatest confidence trick of all time.”
“People who believe in absurdities,
will commit atrocities.”
“People who believe in evolution in biology often believe in creationism in government. In other words, they believe that the universe and all the creatures in it could have evolved spontaneously, but that the economy is too complicated to operate without being directed by politicians.”
“People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.”
“People who believe in ghosts think that dead people can walk through locked doors. Nonsense - they have to use a key like the rest of us.”
“People who believe in God conclude there must have been a divine knob twiddler who twiddled the knobs of these half-dozen constants to get them exactly right. The problem is that this says, because something is vastly improbable, we need a God to explain it. But that God himself would be even more improbable.”
“People who believe in gun control are ignorant, superstitious or stupid.”
“people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one”
Source: A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994
“People who believe in painting... realize there is something greater than just coming up with an idea, and executing it.”
“People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.”
“People who believe in something for which there is not a shred of evidence act on that belief and, above all, impose their beliefs on others, they make me cross, and they make me especially cross when they impose their beliefs on defenceless children.”
“People who believe in The Truth often read one book or a group of books all their lives. For them the last word has been uttered by, say, Thomas Aquinas or Adolf Hitler or Friedrich Nietzsche. Hence they stick to their particular Bible and wear it to shreds. Such readers are almost always psychopaths. A one-book man is a dangerous man and should be taken in hand and taught how to diversify his literary investments.”
Source: Reading I've Liked
“People who believe in their own potential, and who are driven by purpose, rarely have time to talk about it.”
Source: SPELLING IT OUT FOR YOUR CAREER
“People who believe in themselves and in a cause greater than themselves can achieve great things-as long as they have a well-intentioned leader to point them in the right direction.”
Source: The Leader's Pocket Guide: 101 Indispensable Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Any Situation
“People who believe in themselves can accomplish almost anything... all begins with attitude.”