P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance.”
“Perhaps it's art; but if it isn't, at least it's something else equally interesting to me!”
“Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy.”
Source: Someone I Loved
“Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our love.”
“Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.”
“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?”
Source: Antic Hay: And The Gioconda Smile
“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
Source: Ender's Game
“Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.”
Source: The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
“Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.”
Source: In a Sunburned Country
“Perhaps it's not that I'm frigid-- it's that once I decide I like a guy, I turn into a raging idiot, unfit for public appearances.”
Source: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
“Perhaps it's only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it's too late then for them to do anything about it.”
“Perhaps it's rude to notice when a wizard does something strange.”
Source: DragonSpell: A Novel
“Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.”
“Perhaps it's time to start examining countries that have made democracy work while still having some kind of the same relationship in covenant with their population. Perhaps we need to look at the Scandinavian countries, or Canada, or something else, but whatever we have now, I think we just have to acknowledge, ain't workin.”
“Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.”
Source: Monet
“Perhaps it's true that love is eternal. But it's appearance changes all the time.”
Source: The Quiet Girl
“Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.”
Source: The God of Small Things
“Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal.”
Source: The Geography of Bliss
“Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.”
“Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.”
“Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.”
“Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.”
“Perhaps its time to dumb down our “smart” life. We are being tracked, listened to, data mined, recorded, and so much more without our real knowing or understanding. When are we going to make a stand for our right to privacy? That’s Tremendo Bullship!”
“Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fatal decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal. They become the tangible landscape of memory, the places that made you, and in some way you too become them. They are what you can possess and in the end what possesses you.”
“Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important in life.”
“Perhaps it’s true, my happiest moments are the anticipation of other moments still to come.”
“Perhaps it’s when you come to the realization that the point of life isn’t to be rich, or secure, or even to be loved - to be any of the things that people usually think is the point. The point of life is to live as deeply as possible, to experience fully. And that can be done in so many ways.”
“Perhaps, Izabel, you should stop worrying about what you don’t possess and focus all of your energy on what you do. No one can be good at everything.”
Source: Seeds of Iniquity
“Perhaps I’m not a nice person, but no one’s perfect.”
“Perhaps I’m tired of waiting for something I may never find.”
“Perhaps I’ve been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.”
“Perhaps Joe and I can carry on loving each other, even when miles of air and experience separate us. Not in the way of wanting to wake up in the same bed, Or needing to speak to each other when something goes wrong. But as a quiet love that endures out of respect for the impact he had on my life.”
Source: Notes on Heartbreak
“Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck?”
“Perhaps just to have loved was enough - just to have seen this world,and known it,through the eyes of love.”
Source: The Very Thought of You
“Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.”
“Perhaps, Katrine, in a library just like this one, you will find that all the things you thought were impossible and all the things that everyone, throughout history, have thought were impossible are not really impossible at all... they never were impossible.”
Source: Forgotten Lore: Volume I
“Perhaps King Lothe did not with to be caught between two sorceresses. Perhaps he did not wish to give in to Morgan. Perhaps he favored Nyneve. Perhaps he planned a game of his own.I do not know, for I could not ask him.”
Source: I Am Mordred
“Perhaps knowing one place intimately is to have a way of knowing all places.”
“Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.”
“Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.”
Source: Elizabeth I
“Perhaps life's journey is about seeing if you can keep your light alive even after all the darkness you've been through.”
“Perhaps life’s simplest and most frequent mistake is to take who we are for granted in our anxious anticipation of who we might be. He loves us as we are. Why can we not rejoice in that love? Can you imagine, for a moment, what would happen if we were to stop trying to find love in all the wrong places and start spending our efforts trying to cherish His love for us? I was finished being someone who called myself by His name, yet turned to all the empty things of this world to satisfy my innermost needs. I was through fabricating solutions of my own devising, crafting makeshift concoctions that never hit the mark.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“Perhaps like attracts like, and that's why I found myself in a circle of women who are so passionate about making music.”
“perhaps like me she's vainly hoping
and some news awaits,
but the moist earth already holds him
in her strong embrace...”
“Perhaps, like me, they found shelter in unfulfilled suburban pipedreams. And perhaps they mourned for the summer, felt the press of age, the ache of a world that barely turned and was not cruel or kind, but indifferent.”
Source: The Rider on the Bridge
“Perhaps, like most of us in a foreign country, he was incapable of placing people, selecting a frame for their picture, as he would at home; therefore all Americans had to be judged in a pretty equal light, and on this basis his companions appeared to be tolerable examples of local color and national character.”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
“Perhaps like the many and various meanings of the word "we," liberals use the word "unsubstantiated" to mean "tested repeatedly and proved true."”
“Perhaps Lila was right: my book—even though it was having so much success—really was bad, and this was because it was well organized, because it was written with obsessive care, because I hadn’t been able to imitate the disjointed, unaesthetic, illogical, shapeless banality of things.”
Source: The Story of the Lost Child
“Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.”
Source: Some Kind of Fairy Tale: A Novel