P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing but banal.”
“Perhaps if you don't know there's a gap, you don't worry about it. If you were a millipede, a tshongololo, crawling along the ground would you look at the birds and worry about not having wings? Probably not.”
Source: Tears of the Giraffe
“Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.”
Source: The Man in the High Castle
“Perhaps if you were a Jewess it might be different. He'd suspect you of wanting to hook me. And he wouldn't like that at all. Of course, if you were immensely rich he might, he just might consider a marriage possible — but even so he'd hate to hurt my mother's feelings. You see, he's still very much in love with her.”
Source: Reunion
“Perhaps, if you weren't so busy regarding my shortcomings, you'd find that I do possess redeeming qualities, discreet as they may be. I notice when the sky is blue. I smile down at children. I laugh at any innocent attempt at humor. I quietly carry the burdens of others as though they were my own. And I say 'I'm sorry' when you don't. I am not without fault, but I am not without goodness either.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.”
Source: Cuckoo Song
“Perhaps imagination is not where we go to escape reality but where we go to remember it.”
Source: Untamed
“Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.”
“Perhaps immortality is a gift of heaven rather than the result of some human effort.”
“Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.”
Source: Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews
“Perhaps in another time, I would have considered what it meant to meet inside a broken crown. Today, I was too intent on who waited for us there.”
Source: Dance With The Sword
“Perhaps in body I am not quite as real as you,” he said, then looked alive, making him once again seem real, even though she knew that if she tried to touch him, she could not. “But my thoughts and emotions are as real as yours. My soul, Mia Randall, is as real as yours.”
“Perhaps in his loneliness he had acquired the silent conviction that he was 'the last', the one, the only. And, being the last, he ceased to be Benjamin, becoming Israel. And upon his heart had settled the history of five thousand years, no longer remote, but become as the history of his own lifetime. His "I" was the converse of the imperial "We.”
Source: A Canticle For Leibowitz
“Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.”
Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
“Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.”
Source: Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838
“Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.”
“Perhaps in the end, it should be left alone as a reminder that life isn't perfect, but even with it's imperfections it is worthwhile and enjoyable. Wouldn't it be great if more people thought that?”
“Perhaps in the end, my son, it is an unfinished work that is the most beautiful of all.”
“Perhaps in the end the suffering is all, it's all contained in the suffering. The final atoms of it all are simply pain.”
Source: The Black Prince
“Perhaps in the long view, de Gaulle was more responsible with his troublesome interventions into our domestic politics, for unifying our country than we will ever give him credit for.”
Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage
“Perhaps in the pursuit of happiness, men and women take somewhat different paths. And, isn't it more than a little patronizing to suggest that most....women are not free? They're not self-determining human beings?”
“Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.”
Source: The Road
“Perhaps in time I will also stop missing you”
Source: Bluets
“Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.”
“Perhaps in time, Ella, the words we have lost will fade, and we will all stop summoning them by habit, only to stamp them out like unwanted toadstools when they appear. Perhaps they will eventually disappear altogether, and the accompanying halts and stammers as well: those troublesome, maddening pauses that at present invade and punctuate through caesura all manner of discourse. Trying so desperately we all are, to be ever so careful.”
“Perhaps, indeed, that is what "holy scripture" really is — not a calm, serene list of truths to be learned or commands to be obeyed, but a jagged book that forces you to grow up in your thinking as you grapple with it.”
Source: Paul: A Biography
“Perhaps indifference itself is pointing to a way to care for humans and nonhumans in a less violent way- simply allowing them to exist, like pieces of paper in your hand, like a story you might appreciate- or not- for no reason.”
Source: Being Ecological
“Perhaps, instead of accusing destiny, the king should have remembered that, as is generally the case with mankind, he was the author of his own misfortunes...”
Source: The Nutcracker
“Perhaps it does not matter so very much what it is one loves in this world. But love something one must.”
Source: KATHERINE MANSFIELD Premium Collection: 160+ Short Stories & Poems (Literature Classics Series): The Complete Short Stories and Poetry of Katherine Mansfield: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Dove’s Nest, Something Childish, In a German Pension, The Aloe, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses...
“Perhaps it existed only to stand in contrast with the whole nature, as if to say, "We were here."
Alex wasn't sure if the thought was morbid or inspiring.”
Source: Fractal Noise
“perhaps it had not given her the satisfaction she was seeking, and she had been lost without the sustenance of longing.”
Source: The Which Way Tree
“Perhaps it had nothing to do with sin and everything to do with sociopathy, that most incurable of human disorders because all so afflicted consider themselves blessed rather than cursed.”
Source: Echoes in the Darkness
“Perhaps it is a fault of the species who thrive in peace, mutual help, aspirations for more of the same -- to forget that outside these borders dwell very different types of mind, feeding on different fuel.”
Source: Shikasta (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 1)
“Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.”
Source: Pegasus
“Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure became one of the richest snake oil salesmen ever to live, selling a diet that promises to help you lose weight, to keep your heart healthy and to normalize your blood pressure.”
Source: The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health
“Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.”
“Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.”
Source: Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice
“Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted, be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence - by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the heartless strife of commercial existence. So do we get our light. So all that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed - only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.”
“Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it.”
Source: The Children of Húrin
“Perhaps it is better to be a machine that does its duty than a flesh-and-blood person who will not, for a dead truth is better than a live falsehood.”
Source: The Road to Oz
“Perhaps, it is better to be decided than undecided. But it is certainly the best to stay decidedly undecided.”
“Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.”
“Perhaps it is better to forget your dreams than to remember your nightmares.”
Source: A Patchwork Of Moonlight And Shadow
“Perhaps it is better to have a place to go to that you hate than to have no place at all.”
Source: Island: The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod
“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
“Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.”
“Perhaps it is different for humans, dear prince," she said, sounding sad, "but we have found that the underdisciplined child will bump up against life eventually and learn their lesson that way - albeit all the harder for their parents' earlier lack of courage and concern. The overdisciplined child lives all its life in a self-made cage, or bursts from it so wild and profligate with untutored energy they harm all about them, and always themselves. We prefer to underdiscipline, reckoning it better in the long drift, though it may seem harsher at the time."
"To do nothing is always easy." Ferbin did not try to keep the bitterness out of his voice.
"To do nothing when you are so tempted to do something and entirely have the means to do so, is harder. It grows easier only when you know you do nothing for the active betterment of others.”
“Perhaps it is easier to understand that even though we do not have the wisdom to enumerate the reasons for the behavior of another person, we can grant that each individual does have their private world of meaning, conceived out of the integrity and dignity of their personality.”
“Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but disappointments if he intends to make them cooperate. The image can not provide matter for a concept. By giving stability to the image, the concept would stifle its life.”