P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Pacifists should stress more and more that it is the rule of law for which they are fighting.”
“Pacing consists of listening to your body, and seeing symptoms as signs, usually of overactivity. You use information from your body to reorganise your activities to get as low a symptom level as possible. This usually means splitting activities into smaller bits and taking frequent rest breaks. It also means finding less strenuous ways of performing activities. When less energy is spent on some activities, you’ll have more energy left over to have fun.”
Source: Classic Pacing for a Better Life with ME
“Pacing is much easier if you try to live life, but within your limitations. Luckily, pacing often makes it possible to have a life despite ME. It might be a small life, but it will still be your own.”
Source: Classic Pacing for a Better Life with ME
“Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting.”
“Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.”
“Pack an outfit to change into on the plane.”
“Pack and leave the house, if you really want to be a singer.”
“Pack animals always tear apart the weaklings in their midst. Every child knows that much instinctively.”
Source: Blindsight
“Pack is built on the bonds of family, of mating, of love. You come first. You always will.”
Source: Kiss of Snow
“Pack is for comfort when you hurt, I thought, putting my head back down. And for the first time in a long time, maybe the first time ever, I appreciated being a part of one.”
Source: Silver Borne
“Pack light and figure the rest out as you go”
Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“Pack, on how he will run his Task Force: “We don’t defend. We attack constantly, and we don’t quit til we have every mammy-jammin’ fugitive back in custody. Attack, pursuit, exploitation. As Napoleon, and after him Patton said, “L’audace, l’audace, toujours l’audace.”
Source: Pack's Posse
“Pack or clan, they took care of each other.”
Source: A Very Dragon Christmas
“Pack speaking about his new love, Sky: “Well, let’s see. She has the animal husbandry skills of a vet, the organizational skills of a Six Sigma guru, and the mechanical skills of a…trained mechanic. She doesn’t require handyman help. And she’s nice to look at. Other than that, she leaves a lot to be desired. And maybe I omitted the best part, which is that she’s a fine human being with strong values.”
Source: Pack's Posse
“Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane, fasten seat-belt, air born, flight, rocking, sun, stars, space, hips of strolling stewardesses, read, sleep, clouds, falling engine speed, descent, circling, touch down, earth, unfasten seat-belt, stairs, airport, immunization book, visa, customs, questions, taxi, streets, houses, people, hotel, key, room, stuffiness, thirst, otherness, foreignness, loneliness, fatigue, life.”
“Pack your bags and move cities and countries. Nothing will enrich you than travel does.”
“Pack your bags, we're going on a guilt trip!”
“Package your gift and talent in such a way that you can help as many people as possible; and afford others the opportunity to bring their unique skills and abilities to help you as well.”
“Package your gift in such a way that you can help as many people as possible; and afford others the opportunity to bring their unique skills and abilities to help you as well.”
Source: Average to Abundant: How Ordinary People Build Sustainable Wealth and Enjoy the Process
“Packaged foods, partially hydrogenated oils and enriched flours are not your friends. Above all, remember this one word: transfats. Avoid it at all costs.”
“Packaged inside of every mistake there lays a great lesson. And while I don’t want to take the mistake into the New Year, I most certainly want to take the lesson that’s packaged inside of it.”
“Packaging can be theater, it can create a story”
“Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know.”
Source: Variations on a time theme
“Packed with detailsplendidly depicts passion, brutality, and cultures in conflict.”
“Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than a kaleidoscopic oral biography of President Bill Clinton. Aspect by aspect, it guides us through the struggles of postmodern America, as the most ambitious baby boomer of his generation seeks to modernize the Democratic Party-and, as in a Greek drama, is fated to be destroyed. Veritably, an all-American saga, with a cast of thousands-favorable and unfavorable.”
“Packed with interwoven personal narratives which the author ties together to show the fragility and molding of Buryat memory and Buryat shamanism's purpose during the transition from state socialism to neoliberal capitalism in Mongolia. . . . Buyandelger has created an emotive, accessible, and well-researched ethnography sure to arouse sympathy and interest in readers.”
“Packer fans are nuts, man.”
“Packet Steamers
Generally Packet Steamers, ships or boats are regularly scheduled vessels carrying mail. Sometime armed these ships carried all types of mail although the name gives the impression that they only carried carried bulk mail. Reliability was most important and the service was first started by the British to carry embassy mail packets to the Empire’s colonies, outposts as well as Consulates and Embassies. Although the name denotes smaller high speed vessels the English designation “packet boat” can denote a large ocean liner.
In wartime these vessels were expected to run regular shipments past the gauntlet of warships and privateers. Some even had to evade marauding pirates. In 1829, pirates captured the packet Topaz and murdered her crew after looting her. In time commercial steam liners began to work regular coastal and international schedules having contracts from governments to carry mail as well as passengers and high-value cargo. Their services retained the name "Packet". The term was frequently used to identify American coastal vessels that carried cargo and passengers on routes from Maine to Cuba and beyond.”
“Packing is always a nightmare.”
“Packing is basically: If you're going on a weekend, then just take what you're really going to wear. And how many times are you going to leave the room? If that makes any sense. Like if you're going to sleep, read, and sit by a fire - chunky knit sweaters, leggings, comfortable boots. But if you're going on like a party weekend, then bring your favorite pieces and make sure you'll wear them.”
“Packing is chiefly planning -- if it is”
“Packing is important because a lot of times I have to go places where I have to be in four different climates in three weeks. For example, Bosnia, Ireland, Rome. Different parts of Italy. You have to pack and get it down to a science.”
“Packing is my pet hate.”
“Packing some heat there, aren’t you Officer?”
Jake looked down and yanked on the hem of his blazer. “Don’t you worry about that, miss,” he chuckled. “That’s for later.” He pecked her on the cheek and steered her toward the door.
“We have got to stop meeting like this,” Molly grumbled, irritated by his nonchalance. Her legs felt like jelly and she tottered on her heels, making her even more annoyed.
Jake steadied her—of course he did. “Really?” he asked, the soul of civility. “I disagree.””
Source: Finding a Husband
“Packing up. The nagging worry of departure. Lost keys, unwritten labels, tissue paper lying on the floor. I hate it all. Even now, when I have done so much of it, when I live, as the saying goes, in my boxes. Even to-day, when shutting drawers and flinging wide a hotel wardrobe, or the impersonal shelves of a furnished villa, is a methodical matter of routine, I am aware of sadness, of a sense of loss. Here, I say, we have lived, we have been happy. This has been ours, however brief the time. Though two nights only have been spent beneath a roof, yet we leave something of ourselves behind. Nothing material, not a hair-pin on a dressing-table, not an empty bottle of aspirin tablets, not a handkerchief beneath a pillow, but something indefinable, a moment of our lives, a thought, a mood.”
Source: Rebecca
“Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks!”
“Packy watched her walk away, her perfect heart-shaped rear end testing the confines of her tight black dress. There was a God. Packy was now certain of it. How else could such heart-stopping beauty be accounted for? Such a thing could not be the product of a random universe. A flower, maybe. A rainbow, perhaps. But not Venus Versailles.”
Source: Wish You Were Here: Stories and Essays Inspired by Fabulous Las Vegas Postcards
“Paco Fuentes," Mrs. Peterson says, pointing to the table behind Mary.
The handsome young man with pale blue eyes like his mother's and smoky black hair like his father's takes his assigned seat.
Mrs. Peterson regards her new student over the glasses perched on her nose. "Mr. Fuentes, don't think this class will be a piece of cake because your parents got lucky and developed a medication to halt the progression of Alzheimer's. Your father never did finish my class and he flunked one of my tests, although I have a feeling your mother was the one who should have failed. But that just means I'll expect extra from you.”
Source: Perfect Chemistry
“Paco Fuentes, " Mrs. Peterson says, pointing to the table behind Mary. The handsome young man with pale blue eyes like his mother's and smoky black hair like his father's takes his assigned seat.”
Source: Perfect Chemistry
“Paco is walking out of the bathroom and I rush past him.
"You might want to wait before you--" Paco's voice fades as I close the door, locking myself in. Wiping my eyes, I gaze into the mirror. I'm a complete mess. My mascara is dripping and . . . oh, it's no use. I slide down and sit on the cold tile floor. Now I realize what Paco was about to tell me. The place stinks; it really reeks . . . almost to the point where I want to throw up. I put my hand over my nose, trying to ignore the offending smell.
***
After locking the door behind him, he crouches beside me and takes me in his arms, pulling me close. Then he sniffs a few times. "Holy shit. Was Paco in here?"
I nod.
He smoothes my hair and mutters something in Spanish.
***
She, too, sniffs a bunch of times. "Was Paco in here?"
Alex and I nod.
"What the fuck does that guy eat that it comes out his other end smelling so rotten? Dammit," she says, wadding up tissue and putting it over her nose.”
Source: Perfect Chemistry
“Paco, we are all so much more than our faults, aren’t we?”
Source: First Kiss: The Widow Darcy Journals, Book 1
“PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts.”
“Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith”
“Pada akhirnya aku terpaksa kembali pada puisi sebagai sebuah perayaan kangen berkali kali dalam hening paling bening tentangmu”
“Pada akhirnya, dengan alasan ingin melindungi orang-orang yang paling kucintai, aku malah menyakiti mereka.”
Source: Berlabuh di Lindoeya
“Pada akhirnya dunia tidak sedang bercanda,
dunia se-serius ini,
Awan yang gelap tidak selamanya akan hujan,
Lakukan yang bisa kamu lakukan,
semua hal yang menyakitimu akan berlalu,
Lupakan.”
“Pada akhirnya hidup hanyalah sebuah proses membesarkan hati, merelakan hal-hal yang tak mungkin diubah karena ada kalanya kita terbentur beberapa hal yang hanya bisa diterima tanpa bisa diubah di dunia manusia.”
“Pada akhirnya, ketika kau mati, takkan ada yang diingat dari masa lalu.”
Source: Trapezoid
“Pada akhirnya persoalan hidup adalah persoalan menunda mati, biarpun orang-orang yang bijaksana lebih suka mati sekali daripada berkali-kali.”
Source: House of Glass
“Pada akhirnya senja hanya semakin menjauh. Namun ia tak pernah sanggup melenyapkan cinta yang paling diam dari pandangan mata, apalagi hati. Lalu aku hanya menunggunya saat magrib tiba.”