P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.”
“Perhaps the simplest example is a synthetic plastic, which unlike natural materials, is not degraded by biological decay. It therefore persists as rubbish or is burned-in both cases causing pollution. In the same way, a substance such as DDT or lead, which plays no role in the chemistry of life and interferes with the actions of substances that do, is bound to cause ecological damage if sufficiently concentrated.”
“Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon”
“Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.”
“Perhaps the single most important point for parents to follow is the importance of giving goals to a child. And the most important goal is that of growing up to be an adult.”
“Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.”
Source: Love's Executioner: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
“Perhaps the single most important thing that we can do to undo the harm we have done is to fix firmly in our minds the thought: the earth is alive.”
“Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in the making. We humans are in the midst of a profound advance as a species to a higher form of global consciousness that has been emerging across cultures, religions and worldviews through the centuries. This awakening of global consciousness is nothing less than a shift, a maturation, from more egocentric patterns of life to a higher form of integral and dialogic patterns of life.”
“Perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol.”
Source: Wir die Völker
“Perhaps the singular positive of [Donald] Trump's desire to improve the deteriorating relations between the U.S. and Russia will lead to achieving progress toward a world free of nuclear weapons.”
“Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.”
“Perhaps the small, elderly brother mutely splitting firewood and stacking it in a buckling, corrugated-iron water tank was heard in Heaven more compellingly than the rest of us put together. Maybe there comes a time when the one who lives to pray at last steps over an invisible threshold and into a place where liturgical form, word and gesture dissolve. Where feeding scraps of stale bread to a young magpie translates into intercession that is as fervent as it is unobserved, as effective as it is inexplicable.”
Source: The Abbot’s Shoes: Seeking a Contemplative Life
“Perhaps the sorrow was not, after all, emanating from the attic, but from her.”
Source: Tongue In Chic
“Perhaps the sound had always been there—like the high-pitched twinkling when you sink your head in calm water, or the stirring in the gel of your eye when you fix on the sun.”
Source: Arms from the Sea
“Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.”
“Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”
Source: Letter from the Birmingham Jail
“Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied.”
Source: Kin Dread
“Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.”
Source: Inkheart
“Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.”
Source: Midnight's Children
“Perhaps the strangest thing about this illusion of control is not that it happens but that it seems to confer many of the psychological benefits of genuine control. In fact, the one group of people who seem generally immune to this illusion are the clinically depressed, who tend to estimate accurately the degree to which they can control events in most situation.”
Source: Stumbling on Happiness
“Perhaps the street photographer has been replaced by the security camera.”
“Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.”
“Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.”
“Perhaps the suspicions stemmed from the distinct lack of women in Batman’s world. True, he crafted his Bruce Wayne alter ego to be an idle playboy, which meant there were a lot of beautiful women in his life. But, the most important female figure in his world seemed only to be his sainted, slain mother, to whose memory, along with that of his late father, Bruce swore to uphold justice and thwart evil. Bruce and Batman might have had romances with girls like debutante Julie Madison or reporter Vicki Vale, but showed neither any true affection. The one female who generated the most heat with Batman was the seductive, whip-wielding jewel thief Catwoman. Of course, since she was on the wrong side of the law, any chance of a romance with Batman was immediately crushed.
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Batman’s sexy foe Catwoman was deemed too racy for the new world of the Comics Code. She was gone by 1954.”
Source: Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines
“Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.”
“Perhaps the thing that most got to me was the ide - the whole thing about lying, and how pervasive lying about Vietnam was.”
“Perhaps the things that break our hearts are the very things that serve to open them.”
“Perhaps the thought of going to hell doesn't alarm you, because you don't believe in it. That may be your belief, but if hell exists, your lack of belief won't make it go away. Standing on a freeway and saying, "I don't believe in trucks" won't make the 18-wheeler disappear.”
“Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.”
“Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our relations with the great creatures of the sea as well as with those on dry land. That this will come to pass is my dear wish.”
“Perhaps the toughest call for a coach is weighing what is best for an individual against what is best for the team. Keeping a player on the roster just because I liked him personally, or even because of his great contributions to the team in the past, when I felt some one else could do more for the team would be a disservice to the team's goals.”
Source: Tom Landry: an autobiography
“Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection.”
Source: Basic Christianity, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
“Perhaps the true mark of a leader is that she or he is willing to stand alone.”
Source: Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership
“Perhaps the true purpose of life is simply to express ourselves as best we can. Maybe my ability to keep finding new challenges appropriate to my age is part of the happiness, the thing that keeps me young, creative, and full of life. The setbacks and the opposition I've encountered are all part of my happiness. I have grown as a result and am still able to lead a self-determined life.”
Source: My Life at the Limit
“Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.”
“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
“Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.”
Source: Now, Where Were We?
“Perhaps the truth lies in how people treat you at their worst, not yours.”
“Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room when my granddaughter was born! We tend not to remember the worst.”
“Perhaps the two most valuable and satisfactory products of American civilization are the librarian on the one hand and the cocktail in the other.”
“Perhaps the ultimate test of a leader is not what you are able to do in the here and now - but instead what continues to grow long after you're gone”
Source: Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow
“Perhaps the ultimate two questions for any seeker are: What's your Why?, and What's your edge?”
“Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.”
Source: The Language of Flowers: A Novel
“Perhaps the universe is a memory of our mistakes.”
“Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.”
Source: Persons and Places
“Perhaps the uproar and the tantrum were the realization of the lack of control she had on the outcome of other team members' performance, that despite her desire to only be the one recognized, other team leads were comfortable praising their teammates.”
Source: Sometimes it's your workplace: "A toxic workplace doesn't end at the office ,it follows you into every part of your life."
“Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.”
“Perhaps the various burnings of the Alexandria Library were necessary, like those Australian Forest Fires without which the new seeds cannot burst their shells and make a young, healthy forest.”
Source: A moving target
“Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'”
“Perhaps the way to meet tomorrow's challenges is not to use yesterday's solutions, but to dare to think the previously unthinkable, to speak the previously unspeakable, and to try that which was previously out of the question.”
Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue