P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Perhaps reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our earth: erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world’s mineral and ocean resources in order to fuel an insatiable consumption.”
“Perhaps robbing someone of his or her story is the greatest betrayal of all.”
“Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.”
Source: Alms for Oblivion
“Perhaps, says the genius, music doesn't change us that much, nor does great art change us. Instead, it reminds us of who, despite all our claims or denials, we've always known we were and are destined to remain. It reminds us of the mileposts we've buried and hidden and then lost, of the people and things that mattered despite our lies, despite the years. Music is no more than the sound of our regrets put to a cadence that stirs the illusion of pleasure and hope. It's the surest reminder that we're here for a very short while and that we've neglected or cheated or, worse yet, failed to live our lives. Music is the unlived life. You've lived the wrong life, my friend, and almost defaced the one you were given to live.”
Source: Find Me
“Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution.”
“Perhaps seclusion is exactly what’s needed to understand the depth that change presents to life.”
“Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.”
Source: a tale of two cities
“Perhaps self-esteem is just the sum of self-love and self-confidence. People with high self-esteem know they deserve a good life and that they can get almost everything they focus on!”
“Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.”
“Perhaps Senkovi would have approved; he who had once seen himself as the trickster god of the pantheon, before there were no more gods left to trick. Perhaps Senkovi would have recalled ancient human myth figures whose outsize griefs and loves and rages were applauded by ancient audiences as noble, right and true.”
Source: Children of Ruin
“Perhaps sensing the dismal failure of its efforts to show that 'established by the State' means 'established by the State or the Federal Government,' the Court tries to palm off the pertinent statutory phrase as "inartful drafting.' This Court, however, has no free-floating power 'to rescue Congress from its drafting errors.'”
Source: Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents
“Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.”
“Perhaps she could draw memories of him from these people like water from a well.”
Source: The Bone Houses
“Perhaps she drives men away. Perhaps, without even being able to help herself, she just puts men into her ill-tempered car and drives them off: to quarries, dumps, small anonymous bodies of water.”
Source: Anagrams
“Perhaps she had exaggerated; people very often were wrong about their relatives.”
Source: Rebecca
“Perhaps she had got it all wrong, perhaps no new love could mend what an old love had torn apart, that passion was an unstable force and perhaps her life did not have to be a constant state of flux. These pages had weathered love and loss. Now, she said to herself, it was in her hands to write here a new story.”
Source: Milk Teeth
“Perhaps she had grown so accustomed to fire that she craved its burn, even as it scarred her. Was that longing? Or was it madness — masochism dressed in memory?”
“Perhaps she had seen worse things that night - but this time she felt the pain of it through and through in a way she could not before, for now the face of war and suffering was a face she knew.”
Source: War Memorial
“Perhaps she has already forgotten what it is to only get glimpses of independence. Those glimpses mean everything to me. Feeling adult is everything to me. It gives me a sense of self, which is important, I think. Recently I have really wanted to figure out who I am. There must be more to me than being Martin Buke's best friend or one of the girls or the Nolan's daughter. I'm just not sure what that is.”
Source: Sunburn
“Perhaps she has not forgotten everything,
I hope the Moon tells her about me!”
“Perhaps she is right, that there is no reason to suffering, no fair dealing when it comes to meting out bliss and pain. There are just choices, and the echoes of those choices.”
Source: The Distant Marvels
“Perhaps she just needed to remind herself more often how that gold was still floating above her head, it's minuscule particles visible only when pierced by a certain light.”
Source: The Other Language
“Perhaps she moves too slowly now, or the world moves too fast for her. She enters the lift, a giant wheel turns and steel cables lower the mechanized box. The lift drops down a black shaft, which exists at the heart of each HDB block. The country may be described, not as a place covered with blocks of public housing, but a topography where black vertical shafts, some forty storeys tall, rise out of the ground like trees.”
Source: The Space Between the Raindrops
“Perhaps,” she said, voice barely a whisper, “but I don’t believe that makes death any less cruel.”
“And why do you say that?” She folded her hands upon her lap, trying not to let the bitterness creep into her voice.
“Because death is only a reprieve for the dead, Mr. Thorly. It cares little for those it leaves behind.”
Source: Belladonna
“Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.”
Source: The Dogs of Babel
“Perhaps, she thought, in some parallel dimension, infinitely close and infinitely far away, another house existed alongside theirs, and in that other house lived fascinating people who did fascinating things and held fascinating talks over their dinner table—and though there was no doorway between the two places, one could occasionally stumble upon glimpses and echos of that other, brighter place, and for one single moment of miraculous serendipity, one could feel almost complete.”
Source: Forty Rooms
“Perhaps, she thought, that’s what love does. It’s not there to make you feel special. It’s to make you brave. It was like a ration pack in the desert, she thought, like a box of matches in a dark wood. Love and courage, thought Sophie—two words for the same thing.”
Source: Rooftoppers
“Perhaps she was a little mad, but then old women often were.”
Source: Howl's Moving Castle
“Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.”
Source: Reena and Other Stories
“Perhaps she was happiest when she was out of control. She looked at the fates and said three little words, not one regret.”
Source: Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths
“Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?”
Source: Then Comes Seduction
“Perhaps she would not have thought of wickedness as a state so rare, so abnormal, so exotic, one which it was so refreshing to visit, had she been able to distinguish in herself, as in all her fellow-men and women, that indifference to the sufferings which they cause which, whatever names else be given it, is the one true, terrible and lasting form of cruelty.”
Source: Swann’s Way
“Perhaps Singapore could learn from us a more relaxed way of life.”
“Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally the same job. The theater is left wing magic and theology is right wing magic.”
“Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible.”
Source: A Horse at Night: On Writing
“Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to sacrifice who I am for who they think I should be.”
“Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Perhaps some day in the dim future it will be possible to advance the computations faster than the weather advances and at a cost less than the saving to mankind due to the information gained. But that is a dream.”
“Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.”
Source: Legends of Our Time
“Perhaps some day, modern people will learn that mystery is not the prison of the mind of people, it is their home.”
“Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.”
Source: The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection
“Perhaps some fortunate fish have known it, but for human beings it is rare to float at the bottom of the deeps and yet breathe with rapture the smells of all the living things spread out to sell in the pure, filtered, moving air."
--"Two Kitchens in Provence" (1966)”
Source: As They Were: Autobiographical Essays
“Perhaps some ghoulish maid service swept through the hotel every hour to pick up the remains of the undead ?”
Source: The Hike
“Perhaps some guest editors would keep Ethel and Julius Rosenberg in their peripheral vision. But Sylvia recognized their execution as the most extreme and gruesome example of McCarthy's red-baiting paranoia.”
Source: Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
“Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don't the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we not all beggars?”
“Perhaps some of the appeal of the dangerous-but-yummy paranormal anti-hero lies in his scorn for societal expectations. Yes, women have come a long way, but there are still some cultural stigmas more associated with women than men.”
“Perhaps some of us are simply born evil, and despite our best efforts we remain that way.”
Source: The Silent Patient
“Perhaps some of you are wondering how I felt seeing him with a boyfriend rather than a girlfriend. If that's the case, please. We gods are not hung up about such things. I myself have had...let's see, thirty-three mortal girlfriends and eleven mortal boyfriends? I've lost count.”
Source: The Hidden Oracle
“Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination to be utterly happy all the time. Perhaps even in this we were freaks. Hi ho.”
“Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.”
Source: Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889