P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break.”
“Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly.”
Source: An English Year
“Perhaps the wealthy care more about a loss of status than wealth.”
Source: sciVive
“Perhaps the wetlanders exposed their weaknesses to their companions as a means of offering friendship and trust. If your friends knew of your weaknesses, it would give them an advantage should you dance the spears with them. Or, perhaps, the complaining was a wetlander way of showing humility, much as the gai’shain showed honor by being subservient.”
Source: The Gathering Storm
“Perhaps the whisper was born before lips, And the leaves in treelessness circled and flew, And those, to whom we impart our experience as bliss, Acquire their forms before we do”
“Perhaps the whole of life is a continuous
interconnecting of miracle,
but we don't always realise it.”
Source: Raising Angels
“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death - ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.”
“Perhaps the whole world is actually a banquet, to which every living thing is invited. First you come as guests: then eventually you're on the menu.”
“Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace.”
“Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.”
“Perhaps the wolf wasn't quite so dangerous as he pretended. Unfortunately, there was only one way to find out for sure——give him a little rope and see if he hung himself.
And pray that he didn't tie her up with it instead.”
Source: Dance of Seduction
“Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.”
“Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.”
“Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.”
“Perhaps the worst betrayals in life are not always the ones other people commit against us. Sometimes they are the lives we betray inside ourselves.”
“Perhaps the worst example of Smithsonian contempt for Jesus Christ is seen in its 1994 publication of a coffee-table book entitled Smithsonian Time Lines of the Ancient World ... This flagrant display of religious bigotry and discrimination in a book officially sponsored by the Smithsonian is intellectually and academically dishonest.”
“Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.”
“Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this approach, in the author's opinion, should be considered professional malpractice.”
Source: Applied Software Measurement: Assuring Productivity and Quality
“Perhaps the worst thing about ideological thinking is that it implies a structure in and behind events, a history that is reiterative, with variations that cannot ultimately change the course of things and are therefore always trivial, no matter how much thought and labor goes into the making of them.”
Source: What Are We Doing Here?
“Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.”
Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
“Perhaps the year and a half spent
trying to make sense of all this has finally drained me
Maybe, just maybe, I always know I deserved better, but was too afraid to accept it”
“Perhaps their papas should buy them some manners instead of squandering their wealth on party dresses.”
Source: Goodnight Eleanor
“Perhaps their unhappiness is merely a continuance of the endless, ancient stories of sadness, the same kind that has preyed upon centuries of minds - lost fortunes, failures, unrequited love, disconnection, undeserved illness, nameless pain of any kind. There is nothing new about wanting to hang a veil between sadness and sober conscience.”
Source: Dropseed: The Story of Three Sad Women
“Perhaps, then, observes Hegel, there is an open vista for thought such that human intelligence can, in principle, override all of its self-imposed limits. If so, the argument goes, then there is hope that it may be able to conceptually assimilate all of reality.”
“Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.”
Source: The Gargoyle
“Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.”
“Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.”
Source: I'm Not Stiller
“Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.”
“Perhaps there are some decisions that are beyond thought, beyond logic, beyond science, and beyond health. Decisions that others can't help us make; things we must do for ourselves because if we don't, we'd only be cheating ourselves. There would always be complications and failures. I could have sat around thinking about the "what ifs" and "maybes". Or, I could've stood up, started running and watched what happened. I chose to run.”
Source: Wide Awake and Dreaming: A Memoir
“Perhaps there are some things we can't let go of, but simply accept as over.”
Source: Moonglow
“Perhaps there are somewhere in the infinite universe beings whose minds outrank our minds to the same extent as our minds surpass those of the insects. Perhaps there will once somewhere live beings who will look upon us with the same condescension as we look upon amoebae.”
Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method
“Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents. There is nothing for it but to try and see through our missions to the end, as best we can, for until we do so, we will be permitted no calm.”
Source: When We Were Orphans
“Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and bound us to our inevitable fates.”
Source: Assassin's Quest
“Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot. Did we really need a cup of tea? I even said as much to Miss Statham and she looked at me with a hurt, almost angry look, 'Do we need tea? she echoed. 'But Miss Lathbury...' She sounded puzzled and distressed and I began to realise that my question had struck at something deep and fundamental. It was the kind of question that starts a landslide in the mind. I mumbled something about making a joke and that of course one needed tea always, at every hour of the day or night.”
“Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers.”
Source: A practical treatise upon Christian perfection. Repr. [of the 1726 ed.].
“Perhaps there could be further discussion on how pathetic it is that the highest office in the Church, the one charged with safeguarding our faith, dares to issue a document like The Message of Fatima with a straight face. It is a measure of their desperate plight, and the importance of Lucy. They have silenced her, and it is her silence that now condemns them. We know she has corresponded with the present Holy Father, and had several face-to-face meetings with John Paul. Yet after all the letters and meetings, John Paul has never been able to claim that Lucy told him Russia had been consecrated to the Immaculate Heart. The most logical reason for the Pope's silence is that Lucy has dared to tell him that he in fact has not consecrated Russia according to the wishes of Heaven.”
Source: Fatima in Twilight
“Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.”
“Perhaps there had been joy for them in finding that sugar could be made from blood.”
Source: The Farming of Bones
“perhaps there had been something a little obsessive about it, the way she’d consumed the shelves of the local library, Blyton to Jansson, C. S. Lewis to P. G. Wodehouse, Christie then du Maurier then the Brontës, reading indiscriminately but always passionately, so that even her dislikes were passionate. Dickens, she thought, was preachy and silly, like a teacher putting on funny voices, but never mind, here were Jane Austen and Sue Townsend, Ursula K. Le Guin and Jean M. Auel, and each Saturday morning she’d return her stack of library books, the maximum permitted, placing them on the counter, like a gambler cashing in chips.”
Source: You Are Here
“Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray and to teach our family members to pray. Prayer is a defense against temptation. It is through earnest and heartfelt prayer that we can receive the needed blessings and the support required to make our way in this sometimes difficult and challenging journey we call mortality.”
“Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet.”
“Perhaps there is a language that it is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.”
Source: A Little Princess — The Story of Sarah Crewe
“Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everyone in the world understands it.”
Source: The Secret Garden
“Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.”
Source: A Little Princess
“Perhaps there is a minimum distance that should separate one exhibit from another... Indeed those specialized in psychophysics have actually come up with some rules.”
“Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.”
“Perhaps there is a reason that there is no fool piece on the chessboard. What action, a fool? What strategy, a fool? What use, a fool? Ah, but a fool resides in a deck of cards, a joker, sometimes two. Of no worth, of course. No real purpose. The appearance of a trump, but none of the power: Simply an instrument of chance. Only a dealer may give value to the joker.”
Source: Fool
“Perhaps there is a simple answer -- not an easy answer -- but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.”