P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Pa'a ka waha."
He knew the phrase, Hawaiian for observe, be silent and learn. "If words are exiting your mouth, wisdom cannot come in," the saying went.”
Source: Untamed
“Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.”
Source: By the Shores of Silver Lake
“Pa gen lape nan tet, si pa gen lape nan vant (there is no peace in the head if there is no peace in the stomach).”
“Pa had brought out our entire stock of beer. Simon, Roger and I had the job of serving. We ran to and fro between the kitchen, the living room and the porch. Our h-fi pumped out old Makossa hits: our parents’ favorites. A few women neighbors of their generation, also wearing kaba ngondos, had begun shimmying in the empty space at the center of the room. They looked like they were showing off: you can’t dance the Makossa without showing off.”
Source: A Long Way from Douala
“Pa i ardhur aspak keq për F, që në ato çaste, përçartej në ethe duke dhënë shpirt nga dashuria për të, mes erës dhe shiut, mbi një anije, e cila s'kish për ta çuar drejt harresës.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“Pa motioned for her to sit at a small table overlooking the wharf. She couldn't read the menu, but he told her most of it, and she ordered fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, white acre peas, and biscuits fluffy as fresh picked cotton. He had fried shrimp, cheese grits, fried "okree," and fried green tomatoes. The waitress put a whole dish of butter pats perched on ice cubes and a basket of cornbread and biscuits on their table, and all the sweet iced tea they could drink. Then they had blackberry cobbler with ice cream for dessert. So full, Kya thought she might get sick, but figured it'd be worth it.”
Source: Where the Crawdads Sing
“Pa never told stories like Grandpa. Or treated the barn like family. Eli knew how Grandpa’s own pa had built the barn by hand, hauling bluestone for the foundation behind a stubborn ox with horns as wide as a tractor. How the smell of the plank walls was like family and how you never washed your chore coat so the animals would smell that you were family, too.”
“Pa-rump, pa-rump, pa-rump. He's the Little Drummer Boy on speed.”
“Pa was taking too long to cut the boys' throats.”
Source: The Merciful Crow
“Pa što - zamišljeno je rekao taj - ljudi kao ljudi. Vole novac, ali tako je uvijek bilo... Čovječanstvo voli novac, ma od čega on bio napravljen, od kože, od papira, od bakra ili zlata. Lakomisleni... Što ćeš... I milosrđe ponekad zastruji u njihovim srcima... Obični ljudi... Općenito uzevši, podsjećaju na prijašnje... Samo ih je stambeno pitanje pokvarilo...”
Source: The Master and Margarita
“Paano mo ikakatwiran sa isang musmos na
Ang mundong ibabaw ay hindi laging kamahal-mahal?”
Source: Wind Bells
“Paasikivi oli pyrkinyt selkiinnyttämään ulko- ja sisäpolitiikan välistä rajaa - vasta Kekkosen aikana siitä tuli veteen piirretty viiva.”
“Pablito, the Bible was meant to be a bridge, not a wedge. It's the greatest love story ever told, about God's enduring and unconditional love for his creation--love beyond all reason. To understand it, you have to read it with love as the standard. Love God. Love your neighbor. Love yourself. Always remember that.”
“Pablo Casals has this simple and sincere attitude of knowing where it's at - of saying, "This is the way it is." If I thought I could carry some of that into my life, I would be happy.”
“Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.”
“Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.”
“Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, el hombre que puso a finales de los ochenta y principio de los noventa la institucionalidad del Estado colombiano contra la pared, asesinando sin contemplación a todo aquel que se le opusiera, se definió en su juventud como un ciudadano de izquierda. No hay duda de que en este sentido fue coherente con su posición, pues un hombre que venía de abajo, que vivió en carne propia la desigualdad enorme que divide profundamente a un 80% de los colombianos que no tiene nada y un 20% que lo tiene todo, no tenía razones para defender a esa minoría privilegiada que había dirigido los destinos del país desde mucho antes de la independencia.”
Source: Los buenos muchachos del expresidente
“Pablo Escobar is one of the great stories of all time. It's a bizarre, dark version of success.”
“Pablo insiste con vehemencia en sus cartas desde la cautividad a los Efesios y a los Colosenses en que Cristo resucitado ha vencido a todo principado y poder del aire y domina todo el universo. También el relato de la estrella de los Magos está en esta línea: no es la estrella la que determina el destino del Niño, sino el Niño quien guía a la estrella. Si se quiere, puede hablarse de una especie de punto de inflexión antropológico: el hombre asumido por Dios —como se manifiesta aquí en el Hijo unigénito— es más grande que todos los poderes del mundo material y vale más que el universo entero.”
Source: La infancia de Jesús
“Pablo Picasso famously said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” There is truth in that thought. Considering my own experience, I tailored it a little: every child is a runner. The problem is how to remain a runner once we grow up.”
Source: Training For Ultra: Ultra Running Stories From the Middle of the Pack
“Pablo Picasso said, "Art is the lie that tells the truth," and it's not a terribly radical statement. It's always been that you can tell truth through fiction. And this idea also comes from nuclear physics.”
“Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.”
“Pablo Picasso was notorious for sucking the energy out of the people he met. His granddaughter Marina claimed that he squeezed people like one of his tubes of oil paints. You's have a great time hanging out all day with Picasso, and then you's go home nervous and exhausted, and Picasso would go back to his studio and paint all night, using the energy he'd sucked out of you.”
Source: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
“Pablo's many stories and reminiscences about Olga and Marie-Thérese and Dora Maar, as well as their continuing presence just offstage in our own life together, gradually made me realize that he had a kind of Bluebeard complex that made him want to cut off the heads of all women he had collected in his private museum. But he didn't cut the heads entirely off. He preferred to have life go on and to have all those women who had shared his life at one moment or another still letting out little peeps and cries of joy or pain and making a few gestures like disjointed dolls, just to prove there was some life left in them, that it hung by a thread, and that he held the other end of the thread. From time to time they would provide a humorous or dramatic or sometimes tragic side to things, and that was all grist to his mill.”
Source: Life With Picasso
“PABLO,
The reason that I love thee
remains strange & blurry
Do I love thee for thy creativity?
For the songs thou has written so carefully?
Do I love thee for thy strangeness & mystery?
Each layer of thy persona is a cure to my melancholy
Allow me to worship thy beauty from afar
My fated heartache...my unreachable star.
Letters To Pablo (forever unpublished)”
“Pac said Thug Life stood for 'The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody'.”
Source: The Hate U Give
“Pac-Man? Or is it Donkey Kong?” In truth, it looked a little more violent and military. A slow grin spread over his face. “Baseball. Think maybe you could stand behind me and give me a few pointers?”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“Pacaran adalah soal rasa. Tapi apa kamu mau makan rasa? Kalau keasyikan sering memabukkan orang pacaran, apa orang bisa kenyang, membangun rumah, membiayai kehidupan keluarga, hanya dengan keasyikan? Jadi, perhitungan yang nalar juga harus ikut bicara.”
Source: Orang-orang Proyek
“Pace doesn't mean speed; it means the right speed. Diagnosis and cure are simple. If you've reached where you want to be in your story too quickly, ask yourself what you've left out. If you've come to a certain point too slowly, ask yourself what kept you so long.”
“Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they sometimes lack is the ability to take the reader on a journey, with all the changes of terrain, speed and mood that a long journey involves. Again, I find that looking at films can help. Most novels will want to move close, linger, move back, move on, in pretty cinematic ways.”
“PACE trial is a fault line between the way we did medicine (secretive, clubbable) and the way we should do medicine (transparent, shared)... PACE is turning out to be the science controversy of the decade: it indicts the medical ecosystem of review”
“Pace yourself, pace yourself, pace yourself. And take time to rest. I guess if you don't rest and rejuvenate, then you harden, and I don't want to harden.”
“Paciencia: Hay gente que hace cosas por miedo al látigo. Hay gente que hace cosas por temor a perder sus familias o sus vidas. Hay gente a la cual es posible comprar y vender. ¿Acaso no son esclavos?
- Voluntad: Son esclavos de sus pasiones. Su miedo les gobierna. ¿Qué poder tienes sobre mi si tu látigo no me da miedo? ¿Soy tu esclavo si no temo perder a mi familia? Te obedezco de forma completa y fiel porque así lo he escogido: ¿soy tu esclavo? Y cuando llegas a odiarme porque soy libre y mi libertad es mayor que la tuya, y me ordenas hacer lo que no pienso hacer, entonces me alzo ante ti y no obedezco. Castígame entonces; he escogido ser castigado. Y si el castigo es superior a lo que estoy dispuesto a consentir, entonces usaré cuanta fuerza sea necesaria para hacer que pares de castigarme, y no más. Pero nunca, ni por un instante, he hecho nada que no haya escogido hacer voluntariamente.”
Source: Wyrms
“Pacifiers are also blamed for delayed language development, which seems logical, too—how's he going to talk with that thing in his mouth?—but there's no evidence for this either. There is evidence that the lack of evidence hasn't stopped people from making the claim: a British speech therapist even admits she was disappointed her study's data showed no link between pacifiers and speech problems. And teeth? Pacifiers only screw up the palate if used past the age of five, well after the vast majority of children have stopped.”
Source: Baby Meets World: Suck, Smile, Touch, Toddle
“Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of peace will beget not peace, but further death and destruction, the very violence the pacifists seek to avoid.”
“Pacifism is a nice idea but it can get you killed. We're not there yet. Evolution is slow, small pox is fast.”
“Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group
without being willing to pay; and claims a halo for his dishonesty.”
Source: Double Star
“Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist”
Source: The complete works of George Orwell
“Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.”
Source: The complete works of George Orwell
“Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.”
“Pacifism means letting the non-pacifists have control ... Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact. If the white races are resolved never to wage war again, the colored will act differently and become rulers of the world.”
“Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.”
Source: The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz
“Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact, and if the White race decides to wage it no longer, the dark ones will, and will become the masters of the world.”
“Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.”
“Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent resistance".”
“Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.”
“Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.”
“Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.”
“Pacifists have usually regarded the use of violence as absolutely wrong, irrespective of its consequences. This, like other ‘no matter what’ prohibitions, assumes the validity of the distinction between acts and omissions. Without this distinction, pacifists who refuse to use violence when it is the only means of preventing greater violence would be responsible for the greater violence they fail to prevent.”
Source: Practical Ethics
“pacifists lead a lonely life. Not even gathering together can take the place of that vast, warm sun of approval that is shed on motherhood, on law-abiding, on killing, and on making money. Someday will we come into our own? Well, motherhood may move into the shade. Law-abiding is going through a trauma. But killing and making money are good for a long, long time.”