P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Perhaps 'defective' is a middle-aged person's default setting. Like the life cycle of a pear we go unripe, unripe, ripe, off. Except the men I meet seem to go adolescent, adolescent, adolescent, old, with no ripe bit, no wise bit, no emotional maturity before they wither.”
Source: To Throw Away Unopened
“Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.”
Source: Swing Low
“Perhaps Dernhil knew there was no time. He had foresight..." Cadvan sighed and looked away. "But he was ever one who looked clearly into his own heart. That is the beauty of his poems. Would that all of us were so lucid.”
Source: The Singing
“Perhaps desire is overrated! Don't you think? There's a thin line between passion and annihilation, never mind between love and hate.”
Source: The Trivia Night
“Perhaps despair is the only human sin.”
Source: Islands, the universe, home
“Perhaps DID raises problematic philosophical and psychological concerns about the nature of the mind itself... Ideas of a unitary ego would incline professionals to see multiplicity as a behavioural disturbance. However, if the mind is seen as a seamless collaboration between multiple selves - a kind of trade union agreement for co-existence - it is less threatening to face this subject.”
Source: Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder
“Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses' beard!”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“Perhaps disability was an integral part of life’s dance. Perhaps fragility was built into our very design. If the source of fragility was also the source of strength, then perhaps fragility was also strength.”
Source: Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir
“Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwo’s fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself.”
Source: Things Fall Apart
“Perhaps eating and drinking provide distraction, stimulation, or meaning/purpose, which is supported by the finding that people eat exciting or enticing foods when bored rather than bland foods.”
Source: A Guide to the Psychology of Eating
“Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course.”
Source: Woman: An Intimate Geography
“Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all the attention seems to be on personalities and polls wears us all down. I just wish they would get on with it.”
“Perhaps elements like tenacity and humility combine to form a heroic compound.”
Source: Turn Left At The Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey
“Perhaps emotion, when it is tightly disciplined, turns into worry.”
Source: Pray for a Brave Heart
“Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult.”
“Perhaps espousing views one doesn't actually hold is a core tenet of normiedom. In sum, the way of the normie is founded upon deception.”
Source: やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている 3
“Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.”
“Perhaps Eurydice wants to remain marginal, a shade insubstantial… the mute waste in a limbo without light and without depth are a style of anima fascinations in which the absence of significance is the significance.”
“Perhaps, even in love, freedom can still be considered sweeter than peace. That is to say that, you are capable of scheduling and re-scheduling your plans without waiting for the approval of any third-party.”
Source: Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism
“Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.”
Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader
“Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. His very "uniqueness," "separateness" and "differentiation" make him an alien, not only in his native place, but even in his own home. Often more so than the foreign born who generally falls in with the established.”
Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader
“Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well produce the opposite of what they promise.”
“Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.”
“Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.”
Source: Fear of Fifty
“Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us.”
Source: A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
“Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored”
“Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.”
Source: The Ender Quintet
“Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart.”
“Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.”
Source: Invisible Man
“Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone's gaze, answer, gesture is enough; it is enough for someone to do something for the sheer pleasure of doing it, and for his pleasure to become the pleasure of others: at that moment, all spaces change, all heights, distances; the city is transfigured, becomes crystalline, transparent as a dragonfly.”
“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”
Source: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations
“Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something that needs our love.”
“Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.”
“Perhaps everything you say is true and these are the death throes of the human race, but even if that was true, I would not lose faith. There must be hope, and I must fight for my Emperor against Chaos and it's servants.
That is insanity.
Wrong, it's being human.”
Source: Hammer of Daemons
“Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.”
Source: The Exorcist
“Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.”
Source: Fear Nothing: A Novel
“Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.”
“Perhaps fate brought us together,
And the incidents in between made us close,
Falling in love was a simple choice,
But breaking my heart, that was yours.”
Source: Write like no one is reading 2
“Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity without meaning to.”
Source: The Girl on the Trail
“Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.”
Source: The Time of the Uprooted: A Novel
“Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.”
“Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it is my avid reading that has been my faith all along.”
“Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes altogether and enable Latino-Americans to rethink what America is supposed to look like.”
Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
“Perhaps finding some new response to these experiences was out of the question when the sheer proliferation of travelers' tales had all but exhausted the lexicon of discovery. But it nevertheless irritated Gentle to hear himself responding in clichés. The traveler moved by unspoilt beauty or appalled by native barbarism. The traveler touched by primitive wisdom or caught breathless by undreamt-of-modernities. The traveler condescending; the traveler humbled; the traveler hungry for the next horizon or pining miserably for home.”
Source: Imajica
“Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.”
“Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.”
“Perhaps five or even ten per cent of men can do something rather well. It is a tiny minority who can do anything really well, and the number of men who can do two things well is negligible. If a man has any genuine talent, he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb; to foster far greater interdependency than anyone can manage, and to accelerate change far faster than anyone's ability to keep pace.”
“Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.”