P Quotes
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“People who want children often become excellent parents. People who don’t want children are usually bad parents.”
“People who want special taxes or subsidies for particular things seem not to understand that what they are really asking for is for prices to misstate the relative scarcities of things and the relative values that the users of these things put on them. . . Making anything artificially cheap usually means that it will be wasted.”
Source: Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
“People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.”
“People who want their love easy don't really want love.”
Source: The Flamethrowers: A Novel
“People who want things for free are dangerous , because they don't have conscious, shame, dignity, respect,morals and limitations on what they can do, to get those things.”
“People who want to acquired powers over somebody else, for them imagination is a powerful tool. If you are seeking liberation, if you want to become free, the first thing that you must become free from is your imagination, because that is the deepest trap. Your memory and your imagination are the two traps. Do you see? One of your legs is stuck in memory; another leg is stuck in imagination. If you release yourself from these, meditation is just natural. When you sit for meditation, what is your basic problem? You are either thinking about tomorrow or thinking about what happened yesterday, isn't it? If you are free from memory and imagination, you will always be meditative.”
Source: Of Mystics & Mistakes
“People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard.”
“People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.”
Source: Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts
“People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.”
“People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.”
Source: Me: Stories of My Life
“People who want to be famous don't know what they're getting into. Once I got famous I saw a side of humanity I'd never seen before. People who don't even know your work want to glom onto you just because you are famous. It's a nauseating aspect of human nature that people worship power -- that's one of the things about mankind that I find truly reprehensible.”
Source: R. Crumb: Conversations by R. Crumb
“People who want to be seen as victims are dangerous because they lie, create events, stage incidents, fabricate facts, and distort the truth. They end up causing harm and danger to support their false claims.”
“People who want to be tattooed don't always have good taste.”
Source: Ohitika Woman
“People who want to change everything in the world but never think of changing themselves are clapping with one palm.”
“People who want to come to this country don't have constitutional rights. Once they get here, they do. But coming here is not a constitutional right. So with do, as a nation, have the ability and should have the ability to decide who comes here and when they come here.”
“People who want to destroy me will create my serenity”
“PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DESTROY ME WILL CREATE MY SERENITY;
PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DESTROY MY SERENE WILL CREATE MY HARMONY;
PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DESTROY MY HARMONY WILL CREATE MY FREEDOM;
PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DESTROY MY FREEDOM WILL CREATE MY WISDOM;
PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DESTROY MY WISDOM WILL CREATE MY GLORY;
PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DESTROY MY GLORY WILL CREATE MY HOLINESS”
“People who want to find a place of rest, want to find an integrated personality, sense of self, want fewer fractures in their lives.”
“People who want to go to power places all of the time and want to be around powerful people, they don't last long in the study.”
“People who want to improve should take their defeats as lessons, and endeavor to learn what to avoid in the future. You must also have the courage of your convictions. If you think your move is good, make it.”
“People who want to know how stocks fared on any given day ask, "Where did the Dow close?" I'm more interested in how many stocks went up versus how many went down. These so-called advance/decline numbers paint a more realistic picture.”
Source: One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In
“People who want to live like Olympian gods must have slaves whom they throw into their fishponds and gladiators who fight during their masters sumptuous banquets-and the pleasure-seekers never care if some blood splatters on them.”
“People who want to make a million borrow a million first”
“People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.”
“People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.”
“People who want to see the beauty of nature from motorboats and automobiles would obviously be just as pleased, and as fully recreated, at a drive-in movie.”
“People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.”
Source: Dave Barry Turns 50
“People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.”
“People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.”
“People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can read and write, they can afford any of the instruments of book writing such as pens, paper, computers, tape recorders, and generally by the time they have reached this decision, they have had a simple education.”
Source: Aiding and Abetting
“People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.”
Source: Bloodchild and Other Stories
“People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.”
“People who watch morning television are elderly, infirm or emotionally immature.”
“People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it involves the most important client in the world-themselves.”
“People who watch Transporter are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.”
“People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.”
“People who wear G-strings suffer from indecision.”
Source: The Confessions of a Misfit
“People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.”
Source: Killing Floor: (Jack Reacher 1)
“People who wear their religion on their sleeves talk a lot about going to Sunday school, reading the Bible, and doing good works. And I suppose there's no harm in that. But if I'd gone to the trouble to pull all this together ... and people never paid any attention to it, never bothered to try to find out how the world worked, then I think I'd get annoyed.”
“People who were also traders were also men of Sufism, as we see around Java, people who were outwardly trading but were also men of very high spiritual character. Otherwise no trader would be able to convert a person from one religion to another. It was because they were men of spiritual character.”
“People who were born alone are defined by feelings like "Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book..." and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.”
“People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.”
“People who were helpful and indispensable were loved. Weren't they?”
Source: The Diviners
“People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.”
“People who were not active in the intellectual life of the country could go on without feeling restricted, except they could not go where they wanted. They could not cross the border to the West whenever they liked.”
“People who were really good at playing or singing seemed boring to me.”
“People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds.”
“People who were so good. There were angels.”
“People who will be enduringly wealthy or who will sustain their abundance will be those who practice altruism. This is the key to sustained prosperity, and it is the formula for good luck and entitlement.”
Source: The Third Eye: A Universal Secret Revealed
“People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.”