P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also....but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to fulfill a dream will always surrender to fear and wonder what happened.”
“People Who laugh on others situation, Often loose temper in the same situation.”
“People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the responsibility for the mirth, from joining in it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)
“People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.”
“People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.”
Source: A doctor's visit: short stories
“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”
“People who learn primarily from reading and principally communicate through writing generally possess a highly developed internal world, a more refined sense of self-control, and a greater sensitivity to honoring social boundaries.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“People who learn some correct detail about another person's life at once draw conclusions from it which are not accurate, and see in the newly discovered fact an explanation of things that have no connexion with it whatsoever.”
Source: The Captive / The Fugitive
“People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.”
Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“People who learned Eric and I wanted to adopt a child often told us stories of adoptions gone wrong. The adopted child incapable of attachment. Who became a drug addict, a runaway, who drained bank accounts, ruined marriages. "I have a friend who adopted," these stories began. "It was a nightmare."...
And their stories did make me afraid, convinced me I was the vulnerable one whose life was at risk. Listening, I'd forget the abandoned, the neglected, the children curled on the floor of some empty-cabinet kitchen or crying in some school bathroom stall or shaking in some crib. I'd forget that these children belong to all of us. If they wield knives in the dark or hit heads against walls or refuse to speak, they signal our failure, not theirs.”
Source: Stranger Care
“People who leave old friends for new friends never make strong friendships.”
“People who leave their cars on the street with tape covering their broken windows are obviously too trusting. I mean, when your car did have glass for a window, someone broke into it. How is tape any more of a deterrent? What are the thieves going to say? Ooh, that like looks like duct tape, we can't beat that. Let's look for one with scotch or masking.”
“People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.”
Source: With the Living Voice: An Address by John Masefield, Given at the First General Meeting of the Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse, 24th October, 1924
“People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.”
“People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.”
“People who let themselves learn new things are the best kind of people.”
Source: Frankly in Love
“People who lie often become angry and resort to threats, intimidation, and violence when their lies are exposed. One thing they won't do is acknowledge their lies and apologize for the damage they cause.”
“People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.”
“People who lie with the intention of causing harm are not good. They are evil-hearted. Such individuals are capable of killing one of their own and blaming the enemy. They are dishonest, lack integrity, and have no moral compass. They should never be trusted.”
“People who lie, cheat and steal in relationships are communicating that they have such an inferior view of themselves that they are not worthy of another's trust.”
“People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.”
“People who like quotations love meaningless generalisations.”
Source: Travels With My Aunt
“People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations”
“People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.”
“People who like to fix other people become “catastrophizers. Fixing becomes an unconscious way of preventing a “what if” from happening.”
“People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.”
Source: Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Train Wrecks of the Silent Screen
“People who like what I do come in all shapes and sizes. Not sure what the common denominator is per se. Oh, it's meeee! But to be embraced by a progressive community means something to me and this one feels like home.”
“People who listen to my records expect the ballads from me. The rock 'n roll is on there because it's another mode of expression.”
“People who listen to them properly don't underestimate them. Unfortunately, there's so much about my career and me that distracts people from the actual content of most of my songs.”
“People who live a lie don't want to hear the truth. They get angry and can even stop talking to you or start fighting with you for telling the truth. People who choose to live in falsehood often resist
the truth. Our music is removed from streaming platforms, our podcasts, history, struggle, and videos erased, and our posts, quotes, comments, and books taken down, even our social media accounts are suppressed or banned. It is not because we have done anything wrong, but It is because we chose truth over comfort and we chose the truth over content.”
“People who live according to the way of the world always complain about their lives”
“People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.”
“People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.”
“People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed.”
“People who live in brick houses shouldn't throw wrecking balls”
Source: And That’s Why I’m Single
“People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. Page 1.”
“People who live in fear tend to do a powerful lot of nothing.”
“People who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time.”
Source: You can fool all of the people all the time
“People who live in glass houses must reeeeeallly trust their neighbors.”
“People who live in glasshouses might as well answer the door”
“People who live in more than two countries are more successful innovators.”
“People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive.”
“People who live in quiet, remote places are apt to give good dinners. They are the oft-recurring excitement of an otherwise unemotional, dull existence. They linger, each of these dinners, in our palimpsest memories, each recorded clearly, so that it does not blot out the others.”
“People who live in seven houses shouldn't throw stones”
“People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?”
Source: Nausea
“People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility of moving from the one to the other ... On what grounds, then, do people form hypotheses about the relative merits of state and state of nature? ... My contention here is that preferences for political arrangements of society are to a large extent produced by these very arrangements, so that political institutions are either addictive like some drugs, or allergy-inducing like some others, or both, for they may be one thing for some people and the other for others.”
“People who live in the luxury of a steady paycheck and food in their bellies get too caught up in right and wrong, moral and immoral, good and bad, heroes and villains, even truth and lies. As if we're all either one or the other. As if we all have a choice. As if I have a choice. But I don't believe in choices. I believe in survival.”
Source: Chasing Impossible
“People who live in the night are acquainted with all kinds of quiet. There’s quiet enough to hear the distant traffic. Quiet enough to hear your breathing. Quiet enough to hear a lover’s heartbeat. There’s please-god-don’t-let-me-die quiet, and can’t-remember-her-name quiet. Is-he-lying quiet and can’t-make-rent quiet. There’s the quiet that inspires poets, and quiet that torments the lonely.”
Source: Cat-Tales Book 1