P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Perhaps for totemic reasons, people like to possess a piece of the country they are visiting. Women like to wear it. Men like to eat it.”
Source: Traveling While Married
“Perhaps fortunately, no one has ever found out what it would be like to have all his wishes fulfilled.”
“Perhaps freedom from ideas of freedom - is the sweetest freedom of all.”
“Perhaps freedom in Christ is freedom from the modern pressures to have life figured out by a certain time.”
Source: Reluctant Pilgrim: A Moody, Somewhat Self-Indulgent Introvert's Search for Spiritual Community
“Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too slippery, for it to be able to mold our theories. Rather the theories are more statements about us and ideology than about the past. Paleontology reveals more about how humans view themselves than it does about how humans came about, but that is heresy.”
“perhaps genuine reality is also — interruption.”
Source: Heritage of Our Times
“Perhaps ghosts didn’t haunt places. Perhaps ghosts haunted people.”
Source: Haze
“Perhaps God brought you into this mess so that he can bring you out of it for his glory.”
“Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?”
“Perhaps God does with His heavenly garden as we do with our own. He may chiefly stock it from nurseries, and select for transplanting what is yet in its young and tender age--flowers before they have bloomed and trees ere they begin to bear.”
Source: The Gospel in Ezekiel: A Series of Discourses
“Perhaps God gave one sisters to teach one to love the inexplicable.”
“Perhaps God gave them this good death because it was the best thing for them.”
Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“Perhaps God gives us a hint about whom God favors through physical and material prosperity. So those who are doing well are probably favored by God.”
“Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won’t be someone else.”
“Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.”
“Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.”
Source: The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood
“Perhaps God wants you to do some work. And he will give you many opportunities. But if you don't do this then perhaps he will get this work done by someone else. If I don't write this idea, someone else will.”
“Perhaps great fiction is in reality, deep hidden truths.”
“Perhaps grief is like battle: After experiencing enough of it, your body’s instincts take over. When you see it closing in like a Martial death squad, you harden your insides. You prepare for the agony of a shredded heart. And when it hits, it hurts, but not as badly, because you have locked away your weakness, and all that’s left is anger and strength.”
Source: A Torch Against the Night
“Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.”
“Perhaps grown women are beings of a good deal more complexity than cats”
Source: Indiscretion
“Perhaps Harry had eaten a bit too much, because he had a very strange dream. He was wearing Professor Quirrell's turban, which kept talking to him, telling him he must transfer to Slytherin at once, because it was his destiny. Harry told the turban he didn't want to be in Slytherin, it got heavier and heavier, he tried to pull it off but it tightened painfully - and there was Malfoy, laughing at him as he struggled with it - then Malfoy turned into the hook-nosed teacher, Snape, whose laugh became high and cold - there was a burst of green light and Harry woke, sweating and shaking.
He rolled over and fell asleep again, and when he woke next day, he didn't remember the dream at all.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Harry at Hogwarts (HARRY POTTER STICKER BOOKS) (Paperback) - Common
“Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months.”
“Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.”
Source: The Tawny Man Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate
“Perhaps he could distract her with a kiss. Yes, her luscious lips were far past due for that tactic. (Garrett)”
Source: Stone-Cold Heart
“Perhaps he could still weave together the broken threads of his life. And yet, I wanted him here now. I needed him here. In the darkness, if I sat very still, I could almost feel his presence by me, quite near, but not too near. Didn't I promise to keep you safe, he would say softly. I have never broken a promise. Don't look so worried, Jenny. And yet, he would be careful. Careful not to move too close. Careful not to frighten me. Waiting still. I am your shelter. Don't be afraid.”
“Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.”
Source: Harvesting the Heart: A Novel
“Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.”
“Perhaps he felt a touch of gratitude too for the fact that they had each other, for better or worse. They might be facing the worse right now, but the fact that they could lean on each other in the midst of it moved it into the better category.”
Source: More Than Words Can Say
“Perhaps he had discovered some answers, but not all of them. never all of them. Like whether madness and evil are two different entities, or whether when we no longer understand the purpose of destruction we simply term it madness. (...) Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.”
“Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he did be themselves Life. And not merely a delightful exercise of technical skill which man had been able to achieve because he, of all the animals, had a fine thumb. Which is nonsense, for whatever you live is Life.”
“Perhaps he had worked a vague charm, and she was giving forth her deepest thoughts.”
Source: Blackwood Farm
“Perhaps he has confused making money with freedom.”
Source: Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America
“Perhaps he has realised now that he's trapped here and has to suffer with us and become mortal and die.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.”
Source: Giovanni’s Room
“Perhaps he is crying out for help all this time and I do not hear him! [Pause.] I do of course hear cries. [Pause.] But they are in my head surely. [Pause.] Is it possible that... [Pause. With finality] No no, my head was always full of cries. [Pause.] Faint confused cries. [Pause.] They come. [Pause.] Then go. [Pause.] As on a wind.”
Source: Happy Days
“Perhaps he is one of those people who are able to go through life step by step, for whom what happens, happens, and that is that. For whom today is uncontaminated by yesterday.”
Source: Perfect Happiness
“Perhaps he just didn't have the feeling for faith. It seemed to be a kind of language, one whose gnarled syntax needed to be heard from birth, or it remained forever unintelligible. But he wished he had a faith now, some scrap for something: for elphaba was dead, and to act as if the world were no more changed than if some branch of a tree had snapped off- well, it didn't seem right.”
“Perhaps he makes a choice. He chooses the memory of her. That’s why he turns. He doesn’t make the lover’s choice, but the poet’s.”
Source: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
“Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“perhaps he thought the subject of too delicate a nature to be made common: and as many people might then indiscriminately use it, it would take from that necessary fear and caution, which should prevent their experiencing the extensive power of this drug: for there are many properties in itm if universally known, that would habituate the use, and make it more in request with us than the Turks themselves: the result of which my knowledge,' he adds, 'must prove a general misfortune.' In the necessity of this conclusion I do not altogether concur”
Source: Confessions of an English Opium Eater
“Perhaps he wanted to be alone with Dr. G., who was here, but he should have let me know. At Hoffmann's I felt I was sitting on hot coals, expecting him to arrive every moment.”
“Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?”
Source: My life
“Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever.”
Source: A Soldier of the Great War
“Perhaps he was a wicked man, as Robert Falcon had said, but he had the saving grace of laughter, could even laugh at his own fatal predicament, and he had been so full of life.”
Source: Moonraker's Bride
“Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.”
Source: Peony in Love
“Perhaps he was only a homosexual, but I didn't want to take any chances.”
Source: The Secret History
“Perhaps he was so used to having people want to kill him that it no longer impacted him like it would a normal person.”
Source: Court of Claws
“Perhaps he would have no title or fortune to offer her, but he was determined to see her safe.
Everything he did, from this point forward...
It was all for her.”
Source: Romancing the Duke
“Perhaps he's in love with Agatha," she said. "I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess