P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back
I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats”
“Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.”
“Perhaps I was easier to shake off for you because you’re such a together person. I was just an extra layer on the outside… like a blanket you could shrug off and feel just the same…. except maybe a little colder….
But I was always a broken person that was haphazardly held together by little more than my own strength. And so you just seeped in the cracks and mingled with my insides until you became an inseparable part of me. And as painful as that is, it still kind of warms me to know I will always carry a part of you with me.”
“Perhaps I was hosting my own personal sexual revolution. You know the kind that will not be televised.”
Source: Those Necessary Thorns: Desiree Elizabeth Taylor
“Perhaps I was lucky after all. It's very hard to measure out, in hindsight, who had it worse than whom.”
Source: Eileen
“Perhaps I was really the guilty one, because I did not know you well enough. I accepted that you did not reveal yourself completely to me, I admired your intelligence and your strange, bitter pride, I wanted to believe that you would forgive me as other people did because of this happy capacity I had to circulate in the world and to be welcomed, while you were only tolerated”
Source: Embers
“Perhaps I was so steeped in love, had woven its mythologies through my mind for so long, that when it arrived in reality I could not recognise it. Love confused me, bewildered me, tore me apart, but not because it was not love, but because I thought it was a fake, some unreal version that did not accord with the love I had dreamt alone.”
Source: Open, Heaven
“Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking.”
Source: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.”
Source: Just One Wish
“Perhaps I will die too, she told herself, and the thought did not seem so terrible to her. If she flung herself from the window, she could put an end to her suffering, and in the years to come the singers would write songs of her grief. Her body would lie on the stones below, broken and innocent, shaming all those who had betrayed her. Sansa went so far as to cross the bedchamber and throw open the shutters ... but then her courage left her, and she ran back to her bed, sobbing.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“Perhaps I will not kill him in my sleep. At least, not tonight.”
Source: The Midnight Front
“Perhaps I won't marry then. Instead, you and I shall live as spinsters in a cottage by the sea. We'll burn our corsets, eat chocolate morning, noon and night and grow fat as hedgehogs.”
Source: Haunting Violet
“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”
Source: The Blind Assassin: A Novel
“Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.”
“Perhaps I'll get used to this bizarre place called Hollywood, but I doubt it.”
“Perhaps I'm being too optimistic, but I think this country is finally ready for a black serial killer.”
“Perhaps I'm dead. Perhaps this is all it will be. The living will carry on in their world – touching, walking. And I'll continue in this empty world, tapping soundlessly on the glass between us.”
“Perhaps I'm hiding from myself. Perhaps I don't want to be what I'm supposed to be. Or perhaps I don't want to keep living the life I already started to live.”
Source: Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker
“Perhaps I'm just optimistic.”
“Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.”
“Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.”
“Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.”
“Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking?”
“Perhaps identity, like hell, was merely other people.”
Source: Those Who Walk Away
“Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning,
We will come back to earth some fragrant night,
And take these lanes to find the sea, and bending
Breathe the same honeysuckle, low and white.
We will come down at night to these resounding beaches
And the long gentle thunder of the sea,
Here for a single hour in the wide starlight
We shall be happy, for the dead are free.”
Source: Collected Poems
“Perhaps if England and Scotland together had one team we could at least beat the Germans.”
“Perhaps if his childhood had been like Clarisse’s, he would have done something else, he would have taken the time she suggested to to discover what he truly loves, what he wants to devote his days to doing, but he has not been able to shake off entirely the obligation of the utilitarian, the efficient, the concrete, nor has he been able to shake off a notion of the civil service as a grail where he is fortunate to be allowed to work.
At night, as he sets his alarm clock, he sometimes thinks that it takes much longer than he expected to escape, and that if he has not put as much distance between himself and his childhood as he would have liked, the next generation can carry on where he left off. He imagines that what he is really doing in the stifling little room that serves as his office is amassing shares in freedom that he will be able to pass on to his children.”
Source: L'Art de perdre
“Perhaps if Hitler had had the wisdom to withdraw his troops and prepare for the defense of his own country, Germany, despite the loss of face this would entail in the losing of all Italy, then the course of the war, if not the outcome, would have been quite different.”
“Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes will take off into the night air and the night winds, sliding past and behind each other, zooming, turning and turning in the redness of the winds, living, never to return.”
Source: Empire of the Senseless
“Perhaps if I'd had God in my life growing up I would have been able to understand the total and complete unfairness of the universe rewarding mean girls”
Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
“Perhaps if I had made his life more difficult, he would have written less, or less freely. I cannot claim to be the midwife to genius, but if I have not facilitated,I have at least not, as many women might have done, prevented. This is a very small virtue to claim, a very negative achievement to hang my whole life on.”
Source: Possession
“Perhaps if I have sex enough I´ll convince myself I enjoy it?" (Regarding not being able to have penetrative intercourse)”
Source: Pageboy
“Perhaps if I kiss you with words
When you read them out loud
They shall vibrate on your lips
And my intention
Becomes your assertion
Uniting us in an ecstasy of sound”
Source: The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse
“Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.”
Source: I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition
“Perhaps, if I use my reason in good faith, I may suceed in discovering some ray of probability to lighten me in the dark night of nature. And if this faint dawn which I seek does not come to me, I shall be consoled to think that my ignorance is invincible; that knowledge which is forbidden me is assuredly useless to me; and that the great Being will not punish me for having sought a knowledge of him and failed to obtain it.”
Source: Treatise on Toleration and Other Essays
“Perhaps if I warn't a blacksmith's wife, and (what's the same thing) a slave with her apron never off I should have been to hear the carols”
Source: Great Expectations
“Perhaps if my mother had been a witch like me with powers of her own, she would have taken me under her wing and guided me on my singular path. But she did not, and I was left to discover what made me different on my own, stumbling and groping along.”
Source: A Lullaby for Witches
“Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary in one's life.”
Source: A Life of One's Own
“Perhaps if only once you did enjoy
The thousandth part of all the happiness
A heart beloved enjoys, returning love,
Repentant, you would surely sighing say,
“All time is truly lost and gone
Which is not spent in serving love.””
“Perhaps, if she could be busy all the time, as she meant to be, she might not feel so unhappy; perhaps, in household cares, she could forget her love, or grow at least accustomed to desolation.”
Source: Venetia
“Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.”
Source: Novels, 1969-1974
“Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow agate, some tender philter of death. But in our middle-class nosy era it would not have come off the way it used to in the brocaded palaces of the past. Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.”
Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
“Perhaps if there is anything remotely interesting about my writing style, it is this: more often than not I have no idea what the story is going to be about. Sometimes I have a fuzzy vision, or a glimpse of one scene, or a character. But mostly all I have is a random first sentence, and I follow it to see where it might go. For me, writing is the process of discovery, of gradually figuring out what happens in the story and how it ends, that makes writing an interesting process for me.”
“Perhaps if there was a God, by God saying nothing, God is saying you have all the tools you need to figure this out.”
Source: Curious
“Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results we desire. Sometimes it may be that while we are complaining of the hardness of the hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our own hearts and our feeble apprehension of the solemn reality of eternal things may be the true cause of our want of success.”
“Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have come together, like bashful lovers, and the music of one would have begun to intersect with the music of the other. But it was too late now.”
“Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessantly, it's just the perceptions that we have are governed by people with self-interest and are not inalignment with the health and safety of us as individuals or as a planet.”
“Perhaps if we could sort one plot from another we would stand half a chance of averting them, but they’re interwined as nettles, my friend.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.”
Source: The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel
“Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.”