Quotes 15241 till 15260 of 26101.
-
People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are
-
People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
-
People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.
-
People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.
-
People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
-
People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
-
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
-
People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
-
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-
People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
-
People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.
-
Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
-
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
-
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
-
Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.
-
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.
-
Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
-
Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it's a shield.
-
Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
-
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
All something-and famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 763)
