P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Perhaps only silence and love do justice to a great work of art”
“Perhaps only some young women, perhaps only a minority of all women, will be able to effect such changes through consciousness alone, through the strength of understanding, which, if transformed into wisdom, always means the performance of necessary actions.”
“Perhaps only those who had loved and lost could appreciate this magic.”
“Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.”
Source: The Hiding Place
“Perhaps, only when we find ourselves stuck with each other, away from all our dreams and life ambitions, we would see love as it really is; an extraordinary gift given to ordinary people.”
“Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.”
“Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written.”
“Perhaps our dreams are there to be broken, and our plans are there to crumble, and our tomorrows are there to dissolve into todays, and perhaps all of this is all a giant invitation to wake up from the dream of separation, to awaken from the mirage of control, and embrace whole-heartedly what is present. Perhaps it is all a call to compassion, to a deep embrace of this universe in all its bliss and pain and bitter-sweet glory. Perhaps we were never really in control of our lives, and perhaps we are constantly invited to remember this, since we constantly forget it. Perhaps suffering is not the enemy at all, and at its core, there is a first-hand, real-time lesson we must all learn, if we are to be truly human, and truly divine. Perhaps breakdown always contains breakthrough. Perhaps suffering is simply a right of passage, not a test or a punishment, nor a signpost to something in the future or past, but a direct pointer to the mystery of existence itself, here and now. Perhaps life cannot go 'wrong' at all.”
“Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.”
Source: Cool memories
“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.”
“Perhaps our greatest concern is with families. The family is falling apart all over the world. The old ties that bound together father and mother and children are breaking everywhere. We must face this in our own midst. There are too many broken homes among our own. The love that led to marriage somehow evaporates, and hatred fills its place. Hearts are broken, children weep.”
“Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.”
“Perhaps our greatest power in life is the power to choose. Without question, choices are the most determining factor in how our lives turn out.”
Source: The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs
“Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.”
“Perhaps our judgement of the purple woman was unfair. No doubt her theories concerning the "approach of the Teatro" made us all uneasy. But was this reason enough to cast her out from that artistic underworld which was the only society available to her? Like many societies, of course, ours was founded on fearful superstition, and this is always reason enough for any kind of behavior. She had been permanently stigmatized by too closely associating herself with something unclean in its essence.”
Source: Teatro Grottesco
“Perhaps our most debilitating rut as a culture is a dependence on experts. Until we kick this dependency, how can we rise above the statistics and become a nation of entrepreneurs and leaders? The answer, as challenging as it is, is for entrepreneurs to show us the way, and to keep at it until more of us start to heed.”
“Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.”
“Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.”
Source: Clea
“Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.”
“Perhaps our relationships are the very make of
us,
For fellowship is both our nature & our
necessity.
We are formed primarily by what we imagine.”
Source: Call Us What We Carry
“Perhaps our suffering is part of our humanity.”
Source: Sunrise Sunset
“Perhaps our synagogues, our temples, and our churches," Archbishop Tutu added, "are not as welcoming as they should be. I really think that we do need for these fellowships to do a great deal more to have those who are lonely come and share. Not in an aggressive way, or in order, as it were, to increase their records or their ranks, but really just keenly interested in one person who comes and gets what they did not have before--warmth and fellowship. ...”
Source: The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
“Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left.”
“Perhaps our teachings seem less religious and more technical, like psychology, so they are easier for secular people to use.”
“Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God's providence.”
“Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.”
“Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow.”
Source: A Soldier of the Great War
“Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity. ... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful hold through its successful habit of passing itself off as nature.”
“Perhaps peace is not, after all, something you work for, or 'fight for.' It is indeed 'fighting for peace' that starts all the wars. What, after all, are the pretexts of all these Cold War crises, but 'fighting for peace?' Peace is something you have or do not have. If you are yourself at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world. Then share your peace with everyone, and everyone will be at peace.”
“Perhaps people don't come into their true maturity until a parent dies.”
“Perhaps people felt there was nothing more they could do, you know? After all, how can someone be helped who doesn’t see the need? A Christian counselor I saw for a while described such situations as, “a White Elephant everyone can see but no one wants to deal with; everyone hopes the problem will just go away on its own.”
Just like with my mom.
Back then it seemed women were almost expected to go a little loopy sometimes. After all we’re the ones with raging hormones that get out of whack – by our periods, PMS or pregnancy and childbirth – and cause craziness and bizarre behavior. And because of those uncontrollable hormones, women are also more emotional and predisposed to depression. These are things my mom was actually told by her parents, her family, her husbands and friends... even her doctor. Eventually, she made herself believe that her erratic behavior stemmed from PMS, not mania or alcohol.”
Source: White Elephants
“Perhaps people hate because it's more difficult to love. It also takes more courage to do the latter.”
“Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“Perhaps people need to understand some history here. Rene Descartes, in the late 16th, early 17th century, postulated that body, mind, physicality and spirituality belonged to different realms of reality that didn't interact. On a positive side, it got the Inquisition off the backs of the intellectuals and they quit burning them at the stake for disagreeing with the Church.”
“Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination.”
“Perhaps people who are gushing over the Obama Cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean for their granddaughters to live under Sharia law.”
“Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.”
“Perhaps
Perhaps, one day, we’ll cross each other’s path,
Not by design, but some strange twist of fate.
You’ll glance, and I will feel the world go still.
Your eyes will find mine—soft, unreadable—
And in that gaze, my chest will tighten fast,
A fluttered breath I cannot hold inside.
I’ll wonder then, do you still see through me?
That way you did, as if my soul were glass,
No secrets veiled, no walls I’d ever built—
As though my silence whispered all to you.
I’ll stand there, caught between what was and is,
A moment wrapped in quiet, aching heat.
Old feelings, like a tide, will rise again,
Beyond the grasp of reason or of will.
I will not move, nor will I turn away,
And yet, I will not speak. I’ll let it pass.
But I won’t cry—not there, not in your sight.
The tears, if any come, will wait till dusk,
Or till the echo fades within my chest.
I’ll walk away, alone, but not the same—
Still holding something wordless, undefined.
A hope, perhaps? Or just the ghost of it.”
“Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.”
“Perhaps preachers today need to think about the assumptions that are common in their congregation - the plausibilities and comforting assurances - which may in themselves have biblical truth, but can easily become insurance policies waved around as immunity from any kind of serious evaluation of how we are living, whether we are truly following the Lord Jesus in the way he walked, whether we are doing righteousness and justice as God commanded.”
“Perhaps principles are the variable features of life”
Source: Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel
“Perhaps profit isn't everything, but nothing works without profit. Profit is the basis for independent journalism.”
“Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.”
Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
“Perhaps punctuality is a quality made even more valuable because it is found in so few people. Punctuality is not usually thought of in our day as a major virtue.”
“Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.”
“Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way, and many events are uncaused in any conventional sense of the word. Perhaps our gut feeling that it cannot be so reflects only our hopes and prejudices, our desperate striving to make sense of a complex and confusing world, and not the ways of nature.”
“Perhaps real love doesn't recognize a person, it recognizes a space in another. Space that allows us to show and receive love. Space that is supportive of self-expression. A safe space. It looks past the exterior human “shell.”
Source: The (Real) Love Experiment: Explore Love, Relationships & The Self
“Perhaps real wisdom lies in not seeking answers at all. Any answer we find will not be true for long. An answer is a place where we can fall asleep as life moves past us to its next question. After all these years I have begun to wonder if the secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.”
Source: My Grandfather's Blessings : Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging
“Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.”