P Quotes
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“People who claim not to be prejudiced are demonstrating a profound lack of self-awareness. Ironically, they are also demonstrating the power of socialization. We have all been taught in schools, through movies, and from family members, teachers, and clergy, that it is important not to be prejudiced. Unfortunately, the prevailing belief that prejudice is bad causes us to deny its unavoidable reality. Prejudice is foundational to understanding white fragility because suggesting that white people have racial prejudice is perceived as saying that we are bad and should be ashamed. We then feel the need to defend our character rather than explore the inevitable racial prejudices we have absorbed so that we might change them. In this way, our misunderstanding about what prejudice is protects it.”
Source: White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. [...] It's people who claim that they're good, or anyway better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
“People who claim they don't care what others think about them get restless when they know what others are thinking about them.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“People who claim to be Christians while their lives look no different from the rest of the world are clearly not Christians”
Source: Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.
“People who claim to be something they are not, or who claim to be something they don't understand, are dangerous to everyone and to themselves. They always spread hate, division and separation. They are power hungry.”
“People who claim to love you swear that they can die for you, but they won’t let you live in peace.”
“People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.”
“People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.”
“People who climb mountains are lonely people; loneliness is needed. Acquaintances and friends are great things, but climbers need defined mental space that is untouched and unbothered by anyone.”
“People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water.”
“People who come into our lives for a season are the souls who show up whenever you forget how to play the game called, ‘Life.’ They enter your life with a sole purpose to help you define the goals so that you come out of it victorious.
When they teach you the basics and set a solid foundation for you, they walk out of your game choosing not to be your opponent but stand at a distance just to see you win.
Whenever you forget the rules, they come back, again and again, to remind you the rules of the games and to make sure that you don't lose, in any case.”
“People who come to Canada and have big dreams are really achieving something special from an entrepreneurial perspective.”
“People who come to see my movies, you're coming to see a drama masquerading as a genre piece.”
“People who come up to me are drummers or fans of the band. I don't get it too much, but I'll be somewhere and someone will have me take a picture or something.”
“People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?"
do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance
of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.”
“People who commit adultery must die. Everyone knows that. Any movie tells you that!”
“People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.”
“People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.”
“People who complain a lot don't have a goal in life because when you are doing what you aim for, nothing can hurt you.”
“People who complain about something that they cannot do anything about are as irritating as those who complain about something that they can do something about.”
Source: N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
“People who complain often say things like, 'I'm not being negative, I'm just being realistic.' Really? How is it anymore 'realistic' to focus on and talk about things that discourage us and make us feel bad, than to focus on and talk about the POSITIVE aspects of life that make us feel GOOD? Both area equally REALISTIC, but which you choose to dwell on has a very different impact on the quality of YOUR life.”
“People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.”
“People who concern themselves with the rights of other adults who engage in consensual acts involving sex, love, and/or eating croissants together are damaged and in pain.”
“People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.”
“People who connect and build fluid relationships are trust agents.”
Source: Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust
“People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective.”
“People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.”
Source: You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success
“People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to do it. They write it down so they stay on course, and avoid any alternative that does not get them closer to the finish line.”
“People who contend with stressful situations regularly detect more opportunities of this nature than people who are living in pampered circumstances.”
“People who continue in blatant sin whilst exercising spiritual gifts create this ever widening gulf in their personality which results in spiritual failure, emotional collapse, sometimes mental breakdown, physical illness, relational difficulties and quite often a complete moral lapse.”
Source: Developing Your Prophetic Gifting
“People who continue to nurture long-term and new friendships as they grow older are more likely to enjoy health and vitality.”
“People who copy what exists copy a point-in-time artifact, and if you are managing the process correctly you are already hard at work on the next thing.”
“People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher.”
“People who could easily be mistaken as preteens just shouldn’t even try to pull off the look-at-me-I’m-so-serious-and-mysterious-and-sexy look. Especially while driving because, please, you look like you are twelve and a half and driving with a serious look. Most kids who get the opportunity to drive illegally are smiling so big that they look dyslexic and about to piss their pants with excitement because they are in operation of a vehicle that isn’t manufactured by PlayStation.”
“People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House.”
“People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.”
“People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.”
“People who create beauty with the pieces of their broken heart are indestructible.”
Source: Hey Humanity
“People who create change, change the future for others. Therefore, if you remain idle, the future will control how you change.”
“People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to measure the chilling effect on innovation that results from the threats of taxation, regulation and prosecution against anything that succeeds. We'll never know how many ideas our government has aborted in the name protecting us.”
“People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals who might be in a position to reciprocate your altruism.”
“People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”
“People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.”
“People who decry the fact that businesses are in business "just to make money" seldom understand the implications of what they are saying. You make money by doing what other people want, not what you want.”
“People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg”
Source: One Minute Wisdom
“People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.”
Source: Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology
“People who demand signs never believe them when they come.”
Source: Mark: The Gospel of Passion
“People who demand too much from you, have nothing to offer you.”