P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Poor Nico di Angelo. The god's voice was tinged with disappointment. Do you know what you want, much less what I want? My beloved Psyche risked everything in the name of Love. It was the only way for her to atone for her lack of faith. And you- what have you risked in my name?
"I've been to Tartarus and back," Nico snarled. "You don't scare me."
I scare you very, very much. Face me. Be honest.”
Source: The House of Hades
“Poor old Nixon, even his own commissions beat on him. What the hell can he do? He can’t go into every ghetto and fix the plumbing himself. He can’t give every copped-out junkie a million dollars and a Ph.D. Nixon, who’s Nixon? He’s just a typical flatfooted Chamber of Commerce type who lucked his way into the hot seat and is so dumb he thinks it’s good luck. Let the poor bastard alone, he’s trying to bore us to death so we won’t commit suicide.”
Source: Rabbit Redux
“Poor Old Ones! Scientists to the last -- what had they done that we would not have done in their place? God, what intelligence and persistence! What a facing of the incredible, just as those carven kinsmen and forbears had faced things only a little less incredible! Radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star spawn -- whatever they had been, they were men!”
Source: At the Mountains of Madness
“Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others.”
“Poor Oscar. Without even realizing it he'd fallen into one of those Let's Be Friends Vortexes, the bane of nerdboys everywhere. These relationships were love's version of a stay in the stocks, in you go, plenty of misery guaranteed and what you got out of it besides bitterness and heartbreak nobody knows. Perhaps some knowledge of self and women.”
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Poor people always lose in struggles.”
“Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.”
“Poor people and most of the middle class are not willing to be uncomfortable. Remember, being comfortable is their biggest priority in life... The only time you can actually grow is when you are outside your comfort zone.”
“Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.”
“Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.”
Source: The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition
“Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on. All it needs to get the poor people out of poverty for us to create an enabling environment for them. Once the poor can unleash their energy and creativity, poverty will disappear very quickly.”
“Poor people are forced to share their time and resources more than wealthy people are. And as a result, they live in closer communities. Inter-reliant poverty comes with its own stresses, and certainly isn't the American ideal, but its much closer to our evolutionary heritage than affluence. A wealthy person who has never had to rely on help and resources from his community is leading a privileged life that falls way outside more than a million years of human experience.”
Source: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
“Poor people are generally a reminder that hard work can be ineffective.”
“Poor people are gross and they 'smell bad”
“Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.”
“Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.”
“Poor people choose now. Rich people choose balance.”
“Poor people choose to play the role of the victim.”
“Poor people daily seek to increase their credit score, while wealthy people daily seek to increase their net worth.”
Source: Wealth Creation The Influencer: An Influencer is a person WHO inspires or guides the actions of others.
“Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home.”
“Poor people either mismanage their money or they avoid the subject of money altogether.”
“Poor people have been voting for big government liberalism for 50 years... and they are still poor.”
“Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.”
“Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.”
“Poor people have few choices in life, and most of the time you don't think too much about it. You get the best you can and do without when necessary, and hope to God you won't be wiped out by something you can't control. But there are moments it hurts, where there is something you want in the very marrow of your bones and you know there is no way you can have it.”
Source: Sugar Daddy: Number 1 in series
“Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.”
Source: THREE ON A RUSH
“Poor people have poor options. Chavez found the Army almost by accident, and had found it a true open of security and opportunity and fellowship and respect.”
Source: Clear and Present Danger
“Poor people have sh*tty lobbyists.”
“Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.”
“Poor people have the desire to prosper but their mindset stop them.”
“Poor people in America today (people who are officially in poverty) have a higher standard of living - in terms of medical standards, in terms of going to college, in terms of the way people live - than middle class people did thirty years ago.”
“Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.”
Source: act one
“Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.”
Source: Redburn's First Voyage: Works of Melville
“Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.”
“Poor people! No territory invasion can broaden their narrow minds.”
Source: The New Land
“Poor people of all colors are getting poorer and our communities are getting more toxic. There is a misconception that to grow our economy we will have to do business as usual, because cleaning up the environment, mitigating climate change is just too costly. Well, I say the business of poverty is just too expensive a bill for humanity to pay any longer.”
“Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.”
“Poor people show off but wealthy people monetize luxury.”
“Poor people! They build tunnels to reach the light.”
Source: The New Land
“Poor people want to be poor; if they just worked harder they could have more.”
“Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.”
Source: Red ribbon on a white horse
“Poor people will do almost anything to avoid problems. They see a challenge and they run...the secret to success, my friends, is not to try to avoid or get rid of or shrink from your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than your problems.”
“Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however, they can each generate corporate revenues of $30,000 to $40,000 a year.”
“Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.”
“Poor performers are not bad people.”
Source: HR Mastermind
“Poor performing employees are the expected outcome in workers that are routinely exposed to industrial gas, chemicals, heavy metals, company supplied drugs, high altitudes, mal-acclimatization, Faraday cages, abnormal levels of radiation, industrial LASER’s, dirty electricity, social isolation, extreme night shifts, long daily commutes, and so on.”
“Poor Petey. I’d like to say I could almost feel a tender spot for poor Petey, but the truth is I’d rather feel at the tender spot on his head and give it a poke.”
Source: Chime
“Poor planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency on mine.”
“Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.”
“Poor Posture Promotes . . .
In addition to sabotaging people’s perceptions and impressions of you, poor posture can cause uncomfortable health issues:
• Fatigue
• Discomfort
• Neck and back pain
• Muscle imbalance
• Headaches and body aches
• Structural changes to your body”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact