P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Perhaps all a Tsaritsa is is a beautiful cold girl in the snow, looking down at someone wretched, and not yielding.”
Source: Deathless
“Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.”
“Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.”
“Perhaps all Creation as we know it is an extraction from a totality, which I have chosen to call the ‘Source'. Three psychics have told me the same thing: ‘You’ve touched Source energy.’ Though I don’t know what that means, sometimes I do have an experience of traveling to a place in which everything I need for healing is in infinite supply. My mind moves into super-consciousness and a sense of higher intelligence, then past that into peace, and past that into Nothingness – a place of pure potential where all possibilities exist at the same time. The higher I go, the less I feel. The Source doesn’t do anything, it just is. The best way I can describe the Nothing that contains Everything is through the metaphor of white light. Physicists tell us it contains all other colors: when we see red or green or yellow, that’s a subtraction from white. Perhaps by touching the Source I can give my patients what they need to heal, because the Source offers an infinite number of simultaneous existences transcending time and space. Just as I speculate that Creation may be a subtraction from the perfection of Nothingness, I see disease as a subtraction from perfect health. I find that I am unconsciously drawn to physical need in others, and that somehow I’m able to offer a patient what he or she requires. Instead of time travel backward or forward perhaps I’m able to access some kind of universal energy, intelligence, awareness, or information beyond my perception. I can’t describe any of this more clearly – that’s why we have poets!”
Source: The Energy Cure: Unraveling the Mystery of Hands-On Healing
“Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.”
Source: The History of Pendennis
“Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.”
“Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.”
Source: Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity
“Perhaps all love affairs are nothing more than the projections of hopeful hearts looking for soft lodging in a world that would have them be hard. Perhaps.
Perhaps love is always just this; the suspension of disbelief and the fierce welcoming of a shared and altered reality.
Is not the impossible always made possible by love? The ridiculous transformed to serious? What was once only a stuff of dreams made real? If we are willing to allow it or admit it, are we not all altered by our loving?”
“Perhaps all love sailed too close to madness.”
Source: The Red Scrolls of Magic
“Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same.”
Source: Matters of Convenience
“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.”
Source: Prisoner of Love
“Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.”
Source: The Sea
“Perhaps all of this is done in the hopes that we won’t notice just how quickly everything is changing”
Source: The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“Perhaps all one can really hope for, all I am entitled to, is no more than this: to write it down. To report what I know. So that it will not be possible for any man ever to say again: I knew nothing about it.”
“Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.”
“Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.”
Source: Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen
“Perhaps all play is metaphor, perhaps all metaphor is play.”
Source: Metaphor
“Perhaps all pleasure in only relief”
Source: Junky
“Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.”
“Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life.”
Source: The Passion
“Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.”
“Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation.”
Source: Euphoria
“Perhaps all sisters had difficulties, fights, chasms between them... What had occurred in the past did not have to dictate the future.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
“Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.”
Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel
“Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.”
“perhaps, all these years, historians had been unwilling to recognize history as a spiral because a spiral was so difficult to describe. was war, then, the big solution after all? war the great aphrodisiac, the great source of world adrenalin, the solvent of ennui, angst, melancholia, accidia, spleen? war itself a massive sexual act. -war, finally, the controller, the trimmer & excisor; the justifier of fertility?" --the Wanting Seed/Burgess”
“Perhaps, all these years, the historiographers had been unwilling to recognize history as a spiral, perhaps because a spiral was so difficult to describe. Easier to photograph the spiral from the top, easier to flatten the spring into a coil.”
Source: The Wanting Seed
“Perhaps all this gave him a second wind of silliness, of youth.
Perhaps he had already been 'there' years earlier and was stopping for a short stay on his return journey home.
Perhaps he was playing along, watching me.
Perhaps he had never done it with anyone and I'd showed up in the nick of time.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.”
Source: The Bent Twig
“Perhaps all this time I have been wrong about the story's protagonist, the man who runs out of road. Because he hasn't, not really. I mean, he can drive into the ocean. He can always decide to turn around.”
Source: Topics of Conversation
“Perhaps all women are part faerie, for what woman can deny her faerie blood when the portals to her own land are open; when the full moon sings its insistent song; when sorrow and passion and rage pulse through her body at moon times. This is why women are the chosen ones of Faerie, pat of the vibrant, fluid, emotional soul of the world.”
“Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.”
“Perhaps Americans should recognize that if they want to keep their privacy, they should ask the federal government to do only the things that the Constitution allows.”
“Perhaps among those who took to the greenwood in old time there had been two men like himself – two. At times he entertained the dream. Two men can defy the world.”
Source: Maurice
“Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.”
Source: The Open Boat and Other Stories
“Perhaps an overarching binary when it comes to love and relationships is the one which privileges partners over friends. You can see this reflected in phrases like "just friends", "more than friends" and "friendzone", all of which suggest that being friends is inferior to - and less desirable than - being partners with someone.”
Source: Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between
“Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart: men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls; even men might suffer from unexplained desires, and need help. To one of her upbringing, and of her destination, the weakness of men was a truth unfamiliar, but she had surmised it at Florence, when George threw her photographs into the river Arno.”
Source: A Room with a View
“Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem”
“Perhaps art can help us to look beyond the immediate beauty with all its puzzles, and to glimpse that new creation which makes sense not only of beauty but of the world as a whole, and ourselves within it ... The artist can then join forces with those who work for justice and those who struggle for redemptive relationships, and together encourage and sustain those who are reaching out for a genuine, redemptive spirituality.”
“Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has long been a mongrel among academic pursuits, borrowing whatever it needed from other fields.”
“Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.”
Source: Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind
“Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.”
“Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.”
“Perhaps as one gets older one takes one's joys altruistically,"said John, in turn thinking aloud. "I must say though I sometimes wish I could get it selfishly, just for myself, as Gay used to give me, when I was young."
Lady Emily found nothing to say. John's last words fell dead on her heart. It terrified her that he could speak of his youth as a perished thing.”
Source: Wild Strawberries
“Perhaps, as with advancing age, the physical life becomes less important and yet, paradoxically, more precious, this green revolution against the temporary death of winter is a reminder that the earth, like our own lives, is a gift.”
Source: Tales From the Edge of the Woods
“Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.”
“Perhaps, at heart, I am a storyteller; and the universe is my canvas.”
Source: "The 50 Conditions" Anthology