P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People who denounce the free market and voluntary exchange, and are for control and coercion, believe they have more intelligence and superior wisdom to the masses. What's more, they believe they've been ordained to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. Of course, they have what they consider good reasons for doing so, but every tyrant that has ever existed has had what he believed were good reasons for restricting the liberty of others.”
Source: Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays
“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
“People who describe culture and values and how people behave - I've heard people refer to it as 'the soft stuff'-they often underestimate its importance. The soft stuff actually is the hard stuff.”
“People who deserve all kinds of appreciation are those who fall into the darkest pits and come out smiling!”
“People who design decision aids and information technologies usually try to help people perform their jobs better. But insights can show us how to perform our jobs differently. And so the decision aids and technologies can get in the way of insights!”
“People who desire to acquire success need to have knowledge”
“People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.”
Source: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
“People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.”
“People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and I'll never see it again.”
“People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.”
“People who died of starvation are not nearly as pitiful as those who died of overeating.”
“People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.”
“People who disagree with His Excellency, the President for Life and 'Chief of Chiefs,' are frequently found to be the victims of car crashes (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or dead in their beds of heart attacks (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or the recipients of some not-quite-fresh seafood (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets).”
Source: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
“People who discipline themselves to get up and do things they don’t necessarily love or like doing, but do it regardless to succeed are people who will get the results and the success they are looking for.”
“People who discriminate understand that they are a stranger to others.”
“People who dislike you do not need you fail, they only need you to stop choosing how you want to exist”
“People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as ‘parasites’ fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by its host, one that can make its host work for it without appearing as a burden. Such is the ruling class in a capitalist society.”
“People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.”
“People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.”
“People who do comedy really are the nastiest people on the planet.”
“People who do not accept the new, grow old very quickly.”
“People who do not consciously choose to live a sensual lifestyle, in essence, don't take the relationship they have with themselves or others that seriously.”
Source: Sensual Lifestyle
“People who do not eat butterflies will wear their clothes the wrong way, and people who wear their clothes the wrong way are inviting lemmings inside." -- Muzhduk the Ugli the Third”
“People who do not feel amiable are putting great pressure on themselves to be amiable! There is at Christmas a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!”
Source: Hercule Poirot's Christmas
“People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.”
Source: Blue trousers. The lady of the boat. The bridge of dreams
“people who do not get the joke are dangerous people indeed”
Source: The Sympathizer
“People who do not have a price tag attached to them are priceless.”
“People who do not know God live under a very low roof of self-effort and fear.”
Source: The Burden Is Light: The Autobiography of a Transformed Pagan Who Took God at His Word
“People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.”
Source: Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval and other stories
“People who do not know how to remain silent, do not know how to talk.”
Source: The Present Age
“People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have motivated the "millionaire Conservative party donors". I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem. The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself.”
“People who do not know their purpose are easily preyed on by the enemy. Know your purpose so that you will not fall prey to the enemy.”
Source: Your Life, Your Purpose: 365 Motivational Quotes
“People who do not love animals, I find, are more often than not, beasts of a special kind. At the very least, deep within, to their fellow human beings too they're equally unkind.”
“People who do not love dogs, know! When you've bitten dust and lying in your grave, a dog will come by and either crap or piss on you. Of course dogs may do the same on my grave too! But in doing so they'll be embracing me, but oh! they will surely be defecating on you.”
“People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts.”
“People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.”
“People who do not see their choices do not believe they have choices.”
Source: The Issue at Hand
“People who do not see their choices do not believe they have choices. They tend to respond automatically, blindly influenced by their circumstances and conditioning. Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act.”
“People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.”
“People who do not succeed have one distinguishing trait in common. They know all the reasons for failure, and have what they believe to be air-tight alibis to explain away their own lack of achievement.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“People who do not take charge of their lives are lathi-charged by time.”
“People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.”
Source: Marriage at the Crossroads
“People who do not value you are worthless and those who do are priceless.”
“People who do not waste their life truly understand the importance of time.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“People who do not work, are attached to an angry Blue Brexit Beast, for longer than five years, by now. It is a testimony by an absence of real good taste and discipline.”
“People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.”
“People who do nothing change nothing.”
Source: Moonstruck
“People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing.”
“People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die.”
“People who do that sort of thing may reap what they sow, but they also destroy the harvest of those who are around them.”
Source: The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine