P Quotes
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“Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.”
Source: Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
“Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.”
“Pedantry is paraded knowledge.”
“Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.”
Source: The works of Dean Swift: comprising A tale of a tub, The battle of the books, with thoughts and essays on various subjects, together with The Dean's advice to a young lady on her marriage
“Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.”
“Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism however is only the result of good sense, taste and judgment--three qualities that indeed seldom are found together, and extremely seldom in a pedant, which most critics are.”
“Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.”
“Pedersen was always wooing her. Sometimes he was gracious and kind, but at other times when his failure wearied him he would be cruel and sardonic, with a suggestive tongue whose vice would have scourged her were it not that Marie was impervious, or too deeply inured to mind it. She always grinned at him and fobbed him off with pleasantries, whether he was amorous or acrid.
'God Almighty,' he would groan, 'she is not good for me, this Marie. What can I do for her? She is burning me alive and the Skaggerack could not quench me, not all of it. The devil! What can I do with this? Some day I shall smash her across the eyes, yes, across the eyes.'
So you see the man really loved her.
("The Tiger")”
Source: Dusky Ruth and Other Stories
“Pedestals are always lonely.”
Source: The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed
“Pedestals aren't safe...one wrong move and a nasty tumble is sure to follow. Humility is a great grounding tool.”
“Pedestrian accessibility is the key.”
“Pedestrian's rights - because we live in California, I've got to address this issue. I don't know where on the fence I am about that. I suppose if I'm walking, I'm all for it, but if I'm driving, that's a whole other can of worms.”
“Pedestrianism, [William Bingley] claims, is the most 'useful' mode of travel, 'if health and strength are not wanting.'
'To a naturalist, it is evidently so; since, by this means, he is enabled to examine the country as he goes along; and when he sees occasion, he can also strike out of the road, amongst the mountains or morasses, in a manner completely independent of all those obstacles that inevitably attend the bringing of carriages or horses.'
Bingley has a specific reason here for valuing the combination of freedom and intimacy with one's surroundings enjoyed by the pedestrian, but his rationale is generalisable to other travellers.”
Source: Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel
“Pedestrians have the right-of-way in all cases, but that is little comfort if you get run over.”
Source: A Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State
“Pedestrians never seem to realize that they are a threat to the safety of cars.”
“Pedialyte's a super-Gatorade that they give infants when they're dehydrated. It's on all our riders now. Drink a liter of grape Pedialyte and no hangover. The guys from Pantera taught us that trick.”
“Pedig valószínű, hogy igazából soha másról nem kellene írnunk, csak erről: a bánatról, a fájó hiányról, a kiszolgáltatottságról és arról, ami néha két ember között történik, ami láthatatlan, mégis hatalmasabb a világbirodalmaknál, erősebb, mint bármely vallás, és gyönyörű, mint az égbolt; a könnyek áttetsző halairól és a szavakról, melyeket Istenhez suttogunk, vagy valakinek, aki nekünk a legfontosabb; a pillanatról, mikor egy nő magába enged, és a láthatár darabokra hullik. Soha másról nem kellene írnunk. Minden tanúsítványnak, minden jelentésnek, a világ minden üzenetének erről kéne szólnia:
Ma szomorúság miatt nem tudok bemenni dolgozni.
Tegnap megláttam egy szempárt, ezért ma nem tudok bemenni a munkahelyemre.
Sajnos ma nincs módomban bemenni, mert a férjem meztelen és lélegzetelállítóan szép.
Ma nem alkalmas, mert cserben hagott az élet.
A mai találkozón nem tudok részt venni, mert itt odakint egy nő napozik, és a bőre szinte belülről izzik a naptól.”
Source: The Sorrow of Angels
“Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.”
“Pedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get in the room.”
“Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.”
“Pedir perdón es humillante y no arregla nada. La solución no es pedir perdón, sino evitar los estallidos que hacen obligatorias las excusas”
Source: La muerte y otras sorpresas
“Pedir perdón exige más valentía que disparar un arma, que accionar una bomba.”
Source: Patria
“Pedophiles the world over. If you want to do that insufferable thing you do without care, concern, and/or worry; become a Catholic priest. Birds of a feather.”
Source: The Confessional
“Pedragon hated me. I already knew that. But what I hadn't realized was that her dragon did, too.”
Source: The Bond That Burns
“Pedras žinojo tai, ką žino kiekvienas tikras klounas: jog juokas - ištikimiausias tragedijos palydovas.”
“Pedro Algorta, a lawyer, showed me the fat dossier about the murder of two women. The double crime had been committed with a knife at the end of 1982, in a Montevideo suburb.
The accused, Alma Di Agosto, had confessed. She had been in jail more than a year, and was apparently condemned to rot there for the rest of her life.
As is the custom, the police had raped and tortured her. After a month of continuous beatings they had extracted several confessions. Alma Di Agosto's confessions did not much resemble each other, as if she had committed the same murder in many different ways. Different people appeared in each confession, picturesque phantoms without names or addresses, because the electric cattle prod turns anyone into a prolific storyteller. Furthermore, the author demonstrated the agility of an Olympic athlete, the strength of a fairground Amazon, and the dexterity of a professional matador. But the most surprising was the wealth of detail: in each confession, the accused described with millimetric precision clothing, gestures, surroundings, positions, objects.....
Alma Di Agosto was blind.
Her neighbours, who knew and loved her, were convinced she was guilty:
'Why?' asked the lawyer.
'Because the papers say so.'
'But the papers lie,' said the lawyer.
'But the radio said so too,' explained the neighbours.
'And the TV!”
“Pedro da Maia amava! Era um amor à Romeu, vindo de repente numa troca de olhares fatal e deslumbradora, uma dessas paixões que assaltam uma existência, a assolam como um furacão, arrancando a vontade, a razão, os respeitos humanos e empurrando-os de roldão aos abismos.”
Source: Os Maias
“Pedro Teixeira, the great Portuguese merchant-adventurer, wrote a beautiful description of a coffeehouse with windows overlooking the Tigris and the ruins of old Baghdad. That was in 1604, and he's visiting the same street that I write about in the book, named after Abu Nuwas, though it wasn't called that back then.”
“Peduli entah darimana berasal - atau bagaimanapun perasaannya.. Selalu ada kedamaian yang kuat dalam secangkir kopi.”
“Pedulilah, jangan terbawa perasaan semua kata yang dilontarkan berjumlah tidak tetap!”
“Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.”
Source: Paper Towns
“Peel back the facade of rigorous methodology projects and ask why the project was successful, and the answer is people.”
“Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.”
Source: Warm Bodies: A Novel
“Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.”
Source: The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013
“Peel yourself layer by layer. There is an absolute earth shattering magnificent person waiting to be discovered.”
“Peeling an Orange
Between you and a bowl of oranges I lie nude
Reading The World’s Illusion through my tears.
You reach across me hungry for global fruit,
Your bare arm hard, furry and warm on my belly.
Your fingers pry the skin of a naval orange
Releasing tiny explosions of spicy oil.
You place peeled disks of gold in a bizarre pattern
On my white body. Rearranging, you bend and bite
The disks to release further their eager scent.
I say “Stop, you’re tickling,” my eyes still on the page.
Aromas of groves arise. Through green leaves
Glow the lofty snows. Through red lips
Your white teeth close on a translucent segment.
Your face over my face eclipses The World’s Illusion.
Pulp and juice pass into my mouth from your mouth.
We laugh against each other’s lips. I hold my book
Behind your head, still reading, still weeping a little.
You say “Read on, I’m just an illusion,” rolling
Over upon me soothingly, gently unmoving,
Smiling greenly through long lashes. And soon
I say “Don’t stop. Don’t disillusion me.”
Snows melt. The mountain silvers into many a stream.
The oranges are golden worlds in a dark dream.”
Source: Ants on the Melon: A Collection of Poems
“Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are mine.”
Source: Shiver
“Peeling one layer after another and never once getting close enough to the truth. A dive into the deeper and darker and hidden corner of his world. Searching for some kind of light; for his guidance goodwill and affection.”
“Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.”
“Peep through the peep-holes;
You will see the light
Knocking your door now.”
“Peepers should hammer it into their heads that intrusive curiosity is the precursor of offensive animosity.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is infrared and some little ultraviolet, perfectly apparent to many animals, but invisible to me. A nightmare network of ganglia, charged and firing without my knowledge, cuts and splices what I see, editing it for my brain. Donald E. Carr points out that the sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brian: 'This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.”
“Peeple of zee wurl, relax”
Source: Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
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“Peer beyond the wall of doubt to embrace the possibilities.”
Source: Wantin
“Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences
on behavior, and they are classic excuses.”