P Quotes
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“People who've never gone hunting have a tendency to look down on hunters and act like they're out killing Bambi's father.”
“People who've written about Abraham Lincoln's writing emphasize how logical he was. His writing was a syllogistic tool. He would say, if A, then B, and he would reason through it. His late writing especially is so tight and so beautifully reasoned.”
“People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had to solve their own problems alone. These people, who give us a feeling of their intellectual strength and will power, also seem to demand that we, too, ought to fight off any feeling of weakness with intellectual means. In their presence one feels one cannot be recognized as a person with problems just as they and their problems were unrecognized by their parents, for whom he always had to be strong.”
Source: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition
“People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.”
Source: Swann’s Way
“People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.”
“People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not their fault they were reduced to getting their education from school.”
“People whose dancing have brought joy to our hearts are born once in a century. We had MJ.”
“People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“People whose imaginations are infected with fear die sooner out of incurable failure.”
Source: Become a Better You
“People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both in their youth and in adulthood-intelligent, responsive, empathic, and highly sensitive. They will take pleasure in life and will not feel any need to kill or even hurt others or themselves. They will use their power to defend themselves, not to attack others. They will not be able to do otherwise than respect and protect those weaker than themselves, including their children, because this is what they have learned from their own experience.”
“People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident. To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“People whose lives are full of Mysteries are not Afraid of Delusions.”
“People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
“People whose lives are not lived on the mountain peaks of the world commonly forget that the shallows have a beauty of their own.”
Source: The Monastic Heart: 50 Simple Practices for a Contemplative and Fulfilling Life
“People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.”
“People whose lives were determined for them by a group of politicians whose severing, dissecting and reattaching of their lands has turned their world into a monster that not even its creator can control.”
“People whose own dreams aren't completed, help others to accomplish their dreams.”
“People whose religions commit them to the existence of the afterlife feel the terror of death just as anyone else does, nor are they spared the wrenching pain of loss. They do not respond to their loved one's death as though the loved one has moved to a place where they can't contact them for a while but expect to later rejoin them. They might say that is how they see the situation, but their profound sorrow and their mourning practices point in a different direction.”
Source: Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
“People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.”
“People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive.”
“People whose terms go for five years or longer, like FCC commissioners. That's a higher standard. Then district judges, who are appointed for a lifetime but can be overruled. Then Court of Appeals judges. They're not the highest level, but they're almost the final word. And then, of course, the Supreme Court.”
“People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.”
Source: Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production
“People whose world is made of lies can't stand the truth. They don't want to hear the truth because it destroys the world they've created and live in. So, they have to keep lying to maintain the life they're living.”
“People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.”
“People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.”
Source: A Window Over the Sink
“People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.”
Source: Novels and Tales by Goethe
“People will always be around to tell you you're no good or you're wrong or unwise to keep doing what you want to do. They're wrong. They're always wrong. Keep going.”
“People will always be interested in relationships, infidelity and sex and everything connected to things in their own lives.”
“People will always be more willing to give you things that they think you don't need.”
“People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.”
“People will always believe what they want to believe, about you. This is due to the fact that people wish to create their own truths; anything but the truth that's real. My creed is simple: Let them! Their beliefs don't alter your truth. Moreover, your attempt at altering them won't do any good for you.”
“People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.”
“People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.”
“People will always choose more money over more sex”
Source: JPod
“People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.”
“People will always criticize. Stay upbeat and love yourself! There's nothing wrong with being different.”
“People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer.”
“People will always go to games. And not just Duke versus North Carolina. Even Appalachian State against Chatworth.”
“People will always have an opinion, but you have to live life the way you want to. It's very easy to tell others what to do, but difficult to implement it on yourself.”
“People will always have opinions about your decision because they're not courageous enough to take action on their opinion.”
“People will always have something to say about you because they’re perpetually preoccupied with avoiding what they would say about themselves.”
“People will always have the desire to make rock and roll records, and they'll always have the desire to sell rock and roll records. Most of the people making these records do it because it is a business, and if someone says, "You can't do this", they won't complain. They'll just keep making records, but they'll get blander and blander. There'll still be rock and roll, but compared to what it really could be or ought to be, I don't think it'll be all that terrific.”
“People will always make comparisons.”
“People will always notice something about you. It might be the way you walk or the way you talk, or just simply your personality. Live each day in the way you want to be remembered. Live in such a way that people will be inspired by those unique qualities that you have and strive to live better lives for themselves.”
“People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence”
Source: How We Know What Isn't So
“People will always put you in a box that they think you fit in, and it's up to you to not fall into it.”
“People will always rent the affordable rental over the expensive one, even if it means driving a little further.”
“People will always respect you when you're in the process of being better.”
“People will always reveal themselves to you. Read the signs and know when to let go.”
“People will always say all sorts of stuff. Let them. I'm enjoying my life”