P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.”
Source: The Mandelbaum Gate
“people who ran away are friends!”
Source: The Scatter Here Is Too Great
“People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy.”
“People who're hardest to love are the ones who need it the most.”
Source: Cold Hearted
“People who're somehow burned at birth, withered or ablated way past anything like what might be fair, they either curl up in their fire, or else they rise.”
Source: Infinite Jest
“People who’re used to peace and safety are rarely grateful. They take those things for granted”
Source: Alice in Borderland
“People who reach certain levels of frailty, more important than getting their mammogram, more important than getting their blood pressure tweaked, they're at high risk of falling. If they fall and break their hip, they not only die sooner, they die miserably.”
“People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.”
“People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it ironically.”
Source: The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories
“People who read are hiders. The hide who they are. People who hide don't always like who they are.”
“People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.”
“People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read.”
“People who read are people who dream.”
“People who read books in public places are regarded with suspicion because they appear self-sufficient. When you seem self-sufficient, other people think that you think you're better than them, and they get resentful.”
Source: Chicken pox for the soul
“People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.”
“People who read much must always keep it in mind that life is one thing, literature another. Not that authors invariably lie. I declare that there are writers who rarely and most reluctantly lie. But one must know how to read, and that isn't easy. Out of a hundred book-readers ninety-nine have no idea what they are reading about. It is a common belief, for example, that any writer who sings of suffering must be ready at all times to open his arms to the weary and heavy-laden. This is what his readers feel when they read his books. Then when they approach him with their woes, and find that he runs away without looking back at them, they are filled with indignation and talk of the discrepancy between word and deed. Whereas the fact is, the singer has more than enough woes of his own, and he sings them because he can't get rid of them. L'uccello canto, nella gabbia, non di gioia ma di rabbia, says the Italian proverb: "The bird sings in the cage, not from joy but from rage." It is impossible to love sufferers, particularly hopeless sufferers, and whoever says otherwise is a deliberate liar.”
Source: All Things are Possible
“People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.”
“People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.”
“People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.”
“People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.”
“People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.”
“People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.”
“People who really appreciated animals always asked their names.”
Source: The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern
“People who really have Ki don't feel it because everything happens naturally within them.”
“People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.”
“People who really want to be in a relationship are IN one.”
“People who receive compliments but never give them lack self confidence.”
“People who recognize that money won't buy happiness are still willing to see if credit cards will do the trick.”
“People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud.”
Source: Watership Down
“People who refuse to accept unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians who lie to them. What other kind of candidates would such people elect?”
“People who refuse to open their minds to new strategies seldom become rich.”
“People who refuse to step out and be used by God become the critics of those who do. Risk takers, the ones who thrill the heart of God, become the targets of those who never fail because they seldom try.”
Source: When Heaven Invades Earth
“people who refuse to take risks live with a feeling of dread that is far more severe than what they would feel if they took the risks necessary to make them less helpless - only they don't know it!”
“People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future, rather than simply foretell it.”
Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory
“People who reject transcendent authority can no longer persuade one another through rational arguments; everything is reduced to personal opinion. Debates about ideas thus degenerate into power struggles; we're left with no moral standard by which to measure the common good. For that matter, how can there be a 'common good' without an objective standard of truth?”
Source: The Sky Is Not Falling: Living Feaerlessly in These Turbulent Times
“People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.”
“People who relax by watching TV instead of going out to engage with the world tend to be far less energetic. the benefits of exercise in protecting against depression and mental ill-health are huge. Those around you can also affect your energy levels. Self-talk also works wonders on energy levels.”
Source: Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness
“People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.”
“People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen forget.”
“People who renovate and improve homes are penalized by being taxed more for creating value and improving the neighborhood.”
“People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.”
“People who reported having a terrible traumatic experience and who kept the experience a secret had far more health problems than people who openly talked about their traumas. Why would keeping a secret be so toxic? More importantly, if you asked people to disclose emotionally powerful secrets, would their health improve? The answer, my students and I soon discovered, was yes.
We began running experiments where people were asked to write about traumatic experiences for fifteen to twenty minutes a day for three to four consecutive days. Compared to people who were told to write about nonemotional topics, those who wrote about trauma evidenced improved physical health. Later studies found that emotional writing boosted immune function, brought about drops in blood pressure, and reduced feelings of depression and elevated daily moods. Now, over twenty-five years after the first writing experiment, more than two hundred similar writing studies have been conducted all over the world. While the effects are often modest, the mere act of translating emotional upheavals into words is consistently associated with improvements in physical and mental health.”
Source: The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us
“People who represent social organization in a country are a force in that country”
“People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.”
“People who research anything, who deep-dive anything, understand that solitude is never loneliness when you have your subject. The subject looms before you like a bright city on the horizon, beckoning you forward. And you’re forever living in it, or going toward it.”
Source: One's Company
“People who resist authority, who defend the rights of the individual, who try in a period of increasing totalitarianism and centralization to reclaim these rights - this is the true left in the United States.”
“People who resort to 'body-shaming' in debates are like a toxic force hindering the nation's growth—a cancer that corrodes the fabric of constructive dialogue and obstructs the path to progress.”
“People who respect themselves have no difficulty respecting their fellow human beings.”
Source: TREES BY THE RIVER: Wisdom from here and above
“People who run away from challenges are cowards and no coward deserves a reward.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.”