P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Perhaps someday in the distant future, dinosaurs may once again rule the Earth. If they ever learn to watch the stars, then maybe they will find our ruins in the sky.”
“Perhaps someday, she would find the confidence to reject Ahmed bin Walid outright and stop hoping for something that tore her heart in two. But - the thought of losing her connection with him was just as terrifying as putting name to it in the first place. She'd always told herself it was easier to walk away from someone when she buried her feelings for them; she couldn't lose anyone she didn't commit herself to.”
Source: The Stardust Thief
“Perhaps someday when I have time, I can make a list for you of all the things that apologies can't fix,”
Source: Manacled
“Perhaps someday, when you are a father, Prince, you will understand how empty is your heart if your child is a hollow toy that you can move where you will him to be”
Source: The Word Changers
“Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.”
Source: The phantom tollbooth
“Perhaps someone may say 'But surely, Socrates, after you have left us you can spend the rest of your life in quietly minding your own business.' This is the hardest thing of all to make some of you understand. If I say that this would be disobedience to God, and that is why I cannot 'mind my own business', you will not believe that I am serious. If on the other hand I tell you that to let no day pass without discussing goodness and all the other subjects about which you hear me talking and examining both myself and others is really the best thing that a man can do, and that life without this sort of examination is not worth living, you will be even less inclined to believe me. Nevertheless, that is how it is, gentlemen, as I maintain; though it is not easy to convince you of it.”
Source: Apology, Crito And Phaedo Of Socrates.
“Perhaps someone will have seen mine, the one I’m waiting for, just as I saw him, in a ditch when his hands were making their last appeal and his eyes no longer could see. Someone who will never know what that man was to me; someone whose name I’ll never know.”
Source: La douleur
“Perhaps something inside him changed or died. Or maybe it didn’t die. Maybe he murdered it in order to survive the grief.”
Source: Cape of Storms
“Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.”
“Perhaps sometimes horrible things simply happen and it's no one's fault. It's just the way of the world, and the only option is to try to do good and remain hopeful in spite of so much awful.”
Source: Basil & Dahlia: A Tragical Tale of Sinister Sweetness
“Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say”
Source: Silk
“Perhaps sometimes we have self-serving sense that we often experience when we believe we know better than our boss, our teacher, our spouse or partner, our friends, our political leaders - if only they would listen to us!”
“Perhaps somewhere along the way, we’ll find what we need to look for, and then find it.”
Source: Random Cosmos
“Perhaps, somewhere far East where the mothers and spouses of those left strewn across the grass sit and wait for their sons to come home, they think the same of their own precious ones.
A hundred of her own would not be equal to one of theirs in their eyes.
A funny sentiment, one that causes the slightest smile, unnoticed by all but one of those around her, to tilt the prince's lips up.
They were all fools drenched in red, regardless of what deity or god it was in the name of.”
Source: Hymn of The Night
“Perhaps somewhere in all of this if you look there's a proof of love.”
Source: How to be Both
“Perhaps, somewhere, someday, our paths may cross each other but aeons of separation would have altered us so much that, we may not recognise each other but just gaze upon each other as strangers. Our encounter may resemble two ships passing in the night, momentarily sharing the same vast expanse, yet destined for separate destinations”
“Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.”
Source: Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright
“Perhaps stars were supposed to be viewed from the ground.”
“Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she’d not noticed it until now.”
“Perhaps teachers must be good actors where lessons are concerned, but in life outside the class, we mustn't hide from our pupils our individual spirits.”
“Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies.”
“Perhaps teenagers don't interest me as much as children do since I still feel (even at 58) to be a fairly adolescent personality, especially in my enthusiasms, and I find myself an uninteresting fictional character.”
“Perhaps terror and peace became the same thing when life's mysteries were unveiled. In the Bhagavad Gita, when Krishna reveals his divine form at Arjuna's request, Arjuna is terrified at seeing what no mortal can stand to see. But the end to human doubt surely must also bring with it a definite, final peace.”
Source: The Ever After of Ashwin Rao
“Perhaps that closed door was going to end your life, and God chose to save you just in time. Perhaps that door was harbouring danger, and God wanted to preserve your heart. He closed that door out of love, and He will open another one for you to find a purposeful path.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Perhaps that dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises. A day will come when unvanquished Man will retrace his path of conquest, despite all barriers, to win back his lost human heritage.”
“Perhaps that door would have been too small for you to go through. So, God closed it before you could struggle.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Perhaps that has always been my problem, to rebel against boundaries society has prescribed for women.”
Source: The Palace of Illusions
“Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all.”
“Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its force.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another.”
Source: The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath
“Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the flimsy framework of word and deed, mere totems of the true person, who, like the gods to whom the temples were built, remains hidden. We understand our own construct; we know our own theory; we love our own fabrication. Still . . . does the artifice of our affection make our love any less real?”
Source: The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath
“Perhaps that is part of the animals' role among us, to awaken humility, to turn our minds back to the mystery of things, and open our hearts to that most impractical of hopes in which all creation speaks as one.”
Source: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
“Perhaps that is the best way to say it: printed books are magical, and real bookshops keep that magic alive.”
Source: The Bookshop Book
“Perhaps that is the only cure for jealousy, to realize that the people we resent and envy for having what we lack, probably have wounds
and scars of their own. They may even be envying us.”
Source: When Bad Things Happen to Good People
“Perhaps that is the problem," I answered gently. "You built a fantasy of how married life would be, and find hard the reality of a union which heaven knows has been blessed with little luck. But that is the fault of neither of you. If only the two of you could talk freely.”
Source: Revelation
“Perhaps that is the real surprise of love; it exists, but one may not attribute causes and effects to it. The existence may appear to be a mere fallacy to the minds of some, and by the time they realise what hit them, they would already be down and dead.”
Source: Truly, Madly, Deeply!: Memoirs of a Broken Heart's First Love!
“Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it.”
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 that is what it is like being with other people. Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not...”
Source: Piranesi
“Perhaps that is what it means to be a father - to teach your child to live without you.”
“Perhaps that is what life is all about—the search for such a connection. The search for magic. The search for the inexplicable. Not in order to explain it, or contain it. Simply in order to feel it. Because in that recognition of the sublime, we see for a moment the entire universe in the palm of our hand. And in that moment, we touch the face of God.”
Source: A Sudden Light: A Novel
“Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.”
“Perhaps that is where our choice lies -- in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.”
Source: Burning
“Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.”
Source: Jitterbug Perfume
“Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.”
“Perhaps that might be the way to write this book--to open the page and to let the stories crawl in by themselves.”
Source: Cannery Row
“Perhaps that's a smile on Delia's face-but Delia's half skull turns every expression into a leer. She says, "Your uncle had a talent, kid. He made families wherever he went.”
Source: Raising Stony Mayhall
“Perhaps that’s all he is, a distraction from thinking about, or dealing with, the things in her life that are so painful, that fill her with a sadness so great, it is easier to focus on what feels suspiciously like a schoolgirl crush.”
Source: The Sunshine Sisters
“Perhaps that's the whole point about infidelity, I suggested, not that one has sex but that by doing so one puts at risk someone else's happiness?”
“Perhaps that's what she caught, not Life Fatigue but just grief over a broken heart--and the bitterness that comes with being cheated too early of something true--like a young husband's love.”
Source: Wanted: Elevator Man