P Quotes
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“Personally, when I'm picking friends, I like the ones who don't make me cry myself to sleep.”
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“Personally, when it comes to rights, I think one of two things is true. I think either we have unlimited rights, or we have no rights at all. Personally I lean towards unlimited rights, I feel for instance I have the right to do anything I please, BUT! If I do something you don't like I think you have the right to kill me.”
“Personalmente, per quel tanto che conosco della storia dell'lnquisizione spagnola in Sicilia, nella mostra di Madrid mi imbatto in vecchie conoscenze e particolarmente in quella di Luis Rincon de Paramo (o Paramo del Rincon) che, per la verità, prima che nei fasti dell'lnquisizione di Sicilia, ho conosciuto nel Dizionario Filosofico di Voltaire, appunto alla voce Inquisizione. “Questo Paramo — dice Voltaire — era un uomo semplice, esattissimo nelle date, che non trascurava alcun fatto che avesse un qualche interesse, e calcolava col massimo scrupolo il numero delle vittime umane che il Sant’Uffizio aveva immolato in tutti i paesi”; e prima lo aveva proclamato “uno dei più rispettabili scrittori e dei più vivi splendori del Sant’Uffizio”. Il fatto è che il libro di Paramo lo divertiva, gli permetteva di affilarvi sopra la più micidiale ironia. Si direbbe, anzi, che, una volta imbattutosi nel libro di Paramo, Voltaire non abbia sentito il bisogno di cercare altro, sull’Inquisizione; e ragionevolmente. Paramo risponde così pienamente, così esattamente all’avversione laica nei confronti dell’istituzione, del fanatismo su cui si fonda, delle sue procedure e dei suoi uomini, che basta soltanto riassumerlo o citarlo testualmente per conseguire l’effetto di alimentare e ingigantire quell’avversione. Voltaire lo riassume: oggettivamente, impassibilmente. Che è sempre il modo migliore di fronteggiare il fanatismo, anche se ben sappiamo che non sempre il ridicolo uccide (avendo attraversato il fascismo negli anni suoi più comici, tra la conquista dell’Etiopia e la seconda guerra mondiale, abbiamo coi nostri occhi constatato che al ridicolo non solo si sopravvive ma se ne può trarre nutrimento e forza).”
Source: Ore di Spagna
“Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.”
“Personas de gran exigencia intelectual y potentísima inteligencia son hoy plenamente conscientes de que su destino en la vida —explicar lo que han entendido y que los otros no comprenden o no quieren ver— no sirve para nada porque a los otros ni les incumbe ni lo comprenden ni lo quieren saber.”
Source: Dietario voluble
“Persone o morte, o comunque antichissime anche se vive ancora, perché partecipi di tempi lontani, di vicende remote, quando mia madre era piccola, quando aveva sentito dire «la sorella della mia cagna» e «de cosa spussa l’acido solfidrico»; persone che non si potevano incontrare ora, che non si potevano toccare, e che anche se si incontravano e si toccavano non erano però le stesse di quando io le avevo pensate, e che anche se vive ancora erano state tuttavia contagiate dalla vicinanza dei morti, con i quali abitavano nella mia anima: avevano preso, dei morti, il passo ir-raggiungibile e leggero.”
Source: Lessico famigliare
“Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.”
“Personen är bron.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Personne n'entend ceux qui disent vouloir être seuls. La volonté de solitude, c'est forcément une pulsion morbide.”
“Personne n'est plus arrogant envers les femmes, plus agressif ou méprisant, qu'un homme inquiet pour sa virilité.”
“Personne ne l’emportera d’ici, se dit-il. Si elle partait, j’en deviendrais fou. J’en deviendrais fou.”
Source: Muneeb et Samiah: Fables et Contes de l’Afrique médiévale
“Personne ne lui résiste au fond à la musique. On n’a rien à faire avec son cœur, on le donne volontiers. Faut entendre au fond de toutes les musiques l’air sans notes, fait pour nous, l’air de la Mort.”
“Personne ne prétend que la résilience est une recette de bonheur. C'est une stratégie de lutte contre le malheur qui permet d'arracher du plaisir à vivre, malgré le murmure des fantômes du fond de sa mémoire.”
“Personne ne se demandait combien de temps ça durerait, l'interdiction d'avorter et de vivre ensemble sans se marier.
Les signes de changements collectifs ne sont pas perceptibles dans la particularité des vies, sauf peut-être dans le dégoût et la fatigue qui font penser secrètement "rien ne changera donc jamais" à des milliers d'individus en même temps.”
Source: Les Années
“Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.”
“Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the success of the team.”
Source: The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork Workbook: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team
“Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.”
“Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)”
“Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.”
“Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who he is, and who we are. It is only this realization that can open to us the real nature of our duty, and of right action.”
Source: The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters
“Persons are not things; a person is to be LOVED not used”
“Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.”
“Persons are to be loved; things are to be used.”
“Persons Are Turned against Themselves
Evil also turns a person against herself so that self is used against self. The case of the woman who received a dismissal letter from her pastor comes to mind again. The psychological decompensation she suffered was successfully used by her husband to intercede with a psychiatrist of his choosing to commit her to the mental unit of a hospital for an extended involuntary stay, which further worsened her condition. Additional examples abound. Some patients report cults using induced hypnotic states to encourage a subject's dissociated hands and arms to do something hurtful to someone else. In such cases, the subject is encouraged to watch the hand that is hers but not hers (because it is dissociated from her). The end result is often extreme guilt. self-loathing, and distrust of one's self and motives.An incestuous parent may use a child's own natural bodily responses to repeated sexual stimulation to make the point that the child really "wants and enjoys“ what is being forced upon her.”
Source: Trauma and Evil: Healing the Wounded Soul
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.”
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE”
“Persons drinking coffee, as a general rule, eat less, though coffee, and also tea, have little direct food value; but they retard the waste of the tissues, and so take the place of food.”
“Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was.”
“Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.”
“Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.”
“Persons in dysfunctional families characteristically do not feel because they learned from a young age that not feeling is necessary for psychic survival. Family members generally learn it is too painful to feel the hurt or to experience the fear that comes from feelings of rage, abandonment, moments of terror, and memories of horror.”
“Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunities of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.”
Source: Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste
“Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.”
Source: Aphorisms
“Persons living in this modern world who do not know the basic facts that determine their very existence, functioning, and surroundings, are living in a dream world. Such persons are, in a very real sense, not sane.”
Source: Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein
“Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.”
Source: Works
“Persons of Aunt Ada's temperament were not fond of a tidy life. Storms were what they liked; plenty of rows, and doors being slammed, and jaws sticking out, and faces white with fury, and faces brooding in corners, and faces making unnecessary fuss at breakfast, and plenty of opportunities for gorgeous emotional wallowings, and partings for ever, and misunderstandings, and interferings, and spyings, and, above all, managing and intriguing. Oh, they did enjoy themselves! They were the sort that went trampling all over your pet stamp collection, or whatever it was, and then spent the rest of their lives atoning for it. But you would rather have had your stamp collection.”
“Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.”
“Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their character.”
Source: On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays
“Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Six Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death: Printed Verbatim from the Octavo Edition of Mr. Warburton
“Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.”
Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill
“Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.”
“Persons of limited means who scrimp to save from fifty to seventy-five per cent of income are properly termed misers, and are regarded with pitying scorn; but the rich of today enjoy the doubly paradoxical distinction of being spendthrifts, misers, and philanthropists simultaneously.”
Source: America's 60 Families
“Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.”
“Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.”
“Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel.”
“Persons visited by the angel quiver with a thrill unknown to the rest of mankind”
Source: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Mystery & Horror Series): Gothic Classic Based on True Events at the Paris Opera
“Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.”
“Persons who are born with wings often can't fly.”
“Persons who are visited by the Angel quiver with a thrill unknown to the rest of mankind. And they cannot touch an instrument or open their mouths to sing, without producing sounds that put all other human sounds to shame.”
Source: The Phantom of the Opera