P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun.”
“Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much more frequently than in more differentiated forms of life, and they can in addition afford to occupy more precarious positions in natural economy than larger organisms with more exacting requirements.”
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
“Perhaps, because children are sensitive souls, unarmed and vulnerable, easily tenderized by pounding days, they feel everything more deeply.”
Source: Eating Yellow Paint
“Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.”
Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“Perhaps because it seems so appropriate, I don't notice the rain. It falls in sheets, a blanket of silvery thread rushing to the hard almost-winter ground. Still, I stand without moving at the side of the coffin.”
Source: Prophecy of the Sisters
“Perhaps because it [sleep] is a passive and largely unconscious process, we consider it somewhat optional as adults. Sleep doesn’t feel productive! But, arguably, it is one of the most important factors for your physical and emotional health. You absolutely cannot expect to make your life better if you are not sleeping well. Sleep is fundamentally important. Let me say it again. If you are not sleeping well, then you will not be healthy. It is as simple as that.”
Source: 7 Cups for the Searching Soul
“Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.”
“Perhaps because of this, many have looked at my practice in terms of science and technology, however, for me it is just as informed by Surrealism and mythology.”
“Perhaps because our culture and politics have gone so off course, with values so contrary to those of Jesus, more and more people intuitively recognize that His vision of God's kingdom-a new world of compassion, justice, integrity and peace- is the Good News they've been searching and waiting for.”
Source: Red Letter Christians (Large Print 16pt)
“Perhaps. Because perhaps one day I’ll find love again. Perhaps one day I’ll get married. Perhaps one day I’ll have kids. Perhaps one day he’ll feel love. Perhaps one day he’ll have kids. Perhaps one day he’ll understand and perhaps one day he’ll truly regret. But perhaps we never met and perhaps I never truly felt.”
“Perhaps because technology so dominates our existence, more and more it seems that the young reader is captivated by fantasy.”
“Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the beautiful and noble. But if the loved ones love us back, we are forced to return to ourselves, and are hence reminded of the things that had driven us into love in the first place. Perhaps it was not love we wanted after all, perhaps it was simply someone in whom to believe, but how can we continue to believe the the beloved now that they believe in us?”
“perhaps because this time not fear but love made him read.”
Source: Inkdeath
“Perhaps being a parent has changed career more in that you ask yourself how long you'll be away from home. My eldest child is approaching school age so that becomes more important. They're less portable.”
“Perhaps being Death's companion would not be the most terrible thing in the world”
Source: Blossom of Ash
“Perhaps being different wasn't such a bad thing after all. Perhaps it was something to be proud of.”
Source: Weyward
“Perhaps being human is repulsive to those who are incapable of being kind.”
“Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.”
“Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.”
“Perhaps blue, red, and yellow strike the mind more forcibly from there not being any great union between them, as martial music, which is intended to rouse the nobler passions.”
Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone
“Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind and spirit — qualities which are actually neither masculine nor feminine, but simply human qualities that have been neglected.”
“Perhaps burdened with the weight of what we have wrought, human beings have remained hauntable beings; and being hauntable means that we are still capable of turning our gaze, of looking up from our narrow preoccupations to be startled by the sight of a broader, vaster community. In so doing, we can come to realize a world that lies beyond us and use, and so come to see both the obvious and the obscure, the fleeting and the eternal, as elements beyond all reckoning of wealth and worth. Sometimes we can still see what is plain to see.”
Source: Utter, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-than-Human World
“Perhaps, but I have eaten bitter decades up
already, just to choke on what is
something more divine than grief,
having swallowed the glories such suffering brings.”
Source: Heaven
“Perhaps. But it is childish to think of what might have been.”
Source: The Promise
“Perhaps, but the mind is also a powerful force. What you believe, you often see. And what you hope, often comes to be.”
Source: The Curse of the Dark Horseman
“Perhaps. But your path is not hers. Choose, Elara, between duty and love. And remember this: sometimes, the greatest act of duty is to follow your heart, even when it leads you into the shadows, Petite-fille.”
Source: Under The Blood Moon
“Perhaps by mingling my sighs with yours I may make your sufferings less, for it is said that all sorrows divided are made lighter.”
Source: The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise
“Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid.”
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“Perhaps, by seeing them in the flesh, I would exorcise the ghosts their images had conjured in my mind.”
Source: Burying the Shadow
“Perhaps by sharing my personal weight-loss journey on television, I can help others confront the truth and lies behind obesity.”
“Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.”
Source: Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility
“Perhaps Choices spring up when history makes way for them. Perhaps they will grow, like legends upon dead conquerors.”
Source: The Vishakanya's Choice
“Perhaps circumstances kept him [an old christian who is wondering what it all meant] in a position that was less than satisfying, that did not suit him all that well. Or maybe he just missed his opportunities (God makes no mistakes, but we certainly do). It is precisely here that the doctrine of providence speaks a word of grace. A word, incidentally, that offends those who, like Nietzsche, feel themselves capable of achieving, or morally obligated to achieve, self-obtained greatness.
God finds value in our work right now, not in some distant and hard-to-attain future. As Luther knew, occupation is only one aspect of our divine calling, and that calling is fundamentally to be the objects of God’s love and mercy. We couldn’t miss that calling if we tried.”
“Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support it. As far as peace (which is one ingredient in our idea of civilization)is concerned, I think many would now agree that a foreign policy dominated by desire for peace is one of the many roads that lead to war.”
Source: God in the Dock
“Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.”
Source: Goliath
“Perhaps Clarence’s knowledge of the enormous day-to-day expense of the war machine was too much for a man who’s own father had insisted, “Never to waste salt on a radish!”
Source: The Beagle and the Hare
“Perhaps, cold relationships cannot be warmed even by the warmth of the heart. Or maybe, the relationships of people we don't like remain obscured, even though they are right before our eyes.”
Source: Jeetko Paribhasha
“Perhaps college may be around the bend in the road, but I haven't got to the bend yet and I don't think much about it lest I might grow discontented.”
Source: Anne of Avonlea
“Perhaps Communists had wormed their way so deeply into our government on both the working and planning levels that they were able to exercise an inordinate degree of power in shaping the course of America in the dangerous postwar era. I could not help wondering and worrying whether we were faced with open enemies across the conference table and hidden enemies who sat with us in our most secret councils.”
“Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.”
Source: The Bourne Supremacy: Jason Bourne Book #2
“Perhaps correctness and application are not the only measures of success.”
Source: The Other Bennet Sister
“Perhaps counterintuitively, monotasking getting there can also help improve our social relationships. We think we should respond to messages from friends and family as quickly as possible—but strong friendships are generally based on qualities deeper than response time. Overall responsiveness is important, but good friends should be patient, appreciate your full attention when you have it to give, and value your safety and that of others around you.”
Source: The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better
“Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.”
Source: Letters on Life: New Prose Translations
“Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.”
“Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.”
Source: The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
“Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.”
“Perhaps death is just a big lie.”
Source: The Girl Who Cried Wolf
“perhaps death is the most daring adventure of all
it could be that just as snakes shed their skin
we must shed our bodies so our spirits
can explore worlds that our bodies
could simply never take us to”
Source: Lost & Found
“Perhaps, deep down inside that rugged shell of yours, there is a little girl desperately waiting for her Prince Charming to propose.”
“Of course there is. Only until now, I'd been pretty successful at keeping that little brat's mouth shut.”
“What will your answer be if he asks?”
“You're funny. He can't ask. I'll find a way to be bitchy enough for the next forty years so that perfect moment never comes.”
“You seem to have a good handle on that little girl after all.”
Source: Sleeping Giants