P Quotes
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“People's lives, meaningful lives derive from desire, from passion, from education, from knowledge, from growing up being inspired by people and believing that you can do things and that you should want to do things. And people encouraging you to try to do things.”
“People's love for us may change, depending on what we do or don't do to please them. But God's does not-it's everlasting.”
“People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.”
“People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“People's minds are overloaded with information.”
“People's minds are polluted by these dark pictures of the future from Hollywood: "The Terminator," the Skynet, "The Matrix." It's world where there's no room for humans, or they have to fight against the machines. I think it's just a way, way, way, way in the future. Is it going to happen? I don't know. For me, these debates are not similar, but they resemble debates about how the sun will turn into a supernova in 4 to 5 billion years. Frankly, I don't care.”
“People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.”
“People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.”
“People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.”
“People's need to protect their own egos know no bounds. They will lie, cheat, steal, even kill, to do whatever it takes to maintain what we call ego boundries.”
“People's opinions don't interfere with me.”
“People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.”
“People's opinions of us will always change, but how we see ourselves will stay with us forever.”
“People's participation is the essence of good governance.”
“People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork.”
“People's perceptions of their status are just as important as their actual status.”
“People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.”
“People's position on immigration, once they get "sophisticated," and they rise to the higher levels of commentary or government, it's usually determined solely by economics. And not by anything else.”
“People's purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness.”
Source: The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs
“People's reactions to opera the first time they see it is very dramatic; they either love it or they hate it. If they love it, they will always love it. If they don't, they may learn to appreciate it, but it will never become part of their soul.”
“People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.”
“People's relationship to what they want from theatre is changing. People, including me, are still looking for the next STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. And people can't or won't write that anymore.”
“People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.”
“People's responses made me laugh out loud and they made me tear up. They consoled me during my toughest times. I understood my neighbors in new and enlightening ways, and the wall reminded me that I'm not alone as I try to make sense of my life.”
Source: Before I Die
“People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.”
“People's shortcomings should be treated with tact; if you expose them crudely, this is attacking weakness with a weakness. When people are stubborn, it requires skill to influence them; if you treat them with anger and spite, this is treating stubbornness with stubbornness.”
“People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.”
“People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.”
“People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.”
“People's view of exotic or Asian women are changing. It's much nicer to hear 'She's pretty' than 'She's pretty - for an Asian woman.”
“People's vocabulary has expanded.”
“People's wants are not fixed; they generally want what others in their chosen comparison class appear to be enjoying and what advertising presents to them as attainable for them and as bringing happiness.”
“People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.”
“People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.”
Source: A Family and a Fortune
“People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before they die. The process is called "Living".”
“People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.”
Source: A Stranger in My Grave
“People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain.”
“People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.”
“People, and not only Americans, are losing their sons, husbands, brothers, and fathers for no other reason than the profits of US armaments corporations, and the gullible American people seem proud of it. Those ribbon decals on their cars, SUVs and monster trucks proclaim their naive loyalty to the armaments industries and to the whores in Washington who promote wars.”
“People, as critical as it looks, we're OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not.”
“People, based on their emotion, will express support for the sentiment, not necessarily the specifics 'cause there are none.”
“People, buying my stuff, can take it wherever they go and can rebuild it if they choose. If they keep it in their heads, that's fine too. They don't have to buy it to have it - they can just have it by knowing it.”
“People, by nature, have a tendency to snap. We get upset at things. We get angry. I'm sure everybody has said, once or twice in their life, "God, I just want to kill you!" That's just a thought that we have. That's a natural thought. It is only when people act upon that, that it becomes this huge deal.”
“People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.”
“People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell”
“People, especially the liberals, just live in this world where if anything is said that offends anybody even a little bit, not only does that person have to apologize; sometimes they have to go away forever. Go away, bad person. My analysis of this is that most of us don't do anything decent in our life. I'm not saying we're evil. I'm just saying we don't make a contribution, so the way they [liberals] think they're making a contribution is to point at the bad people [which] is somehow even more pathetic.”
“People, even children, aren't really afraid of change. They're afraid of not being prepared for change.”
Source: Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire
“People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That’s what matters.’”
“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”
“People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of the tribal structures that sustain them, reinforce with their tales the conventional notions of justice, freedom, law and order, nature, family, etc. The writer, lone rider, has the power, if not always the skills, wisdom, or desire, to disturb this false contentment.”