P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Perhaps we need more creativity applied to the problem of measuring creativity.”
Source: Artificial General Intelligence
“Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Education lasts forever. Youth is the time for exploration, maturation, socialization.”
“Perhaps we need to suffer a little
to strengthen.
We’re like glass, all of us
perhaps we need to break a little
leaving the cracks open
for light to enter.”
Source: Ephemeral Night Skies
“Perhaps we no longer know what it means to repent because we no longer know what it means to sin.”
Source: The Smell of Sin: and the Fresh Air of Grace
“Perhaps we now need to engineer scarcity in our communications, in our interactions, and in the things we consume. Otherwise our lives become like a Morse code transmission that's lacking breaks - a swarm of noise blanketing the valuable data beneath.”
“Perhaps we only leave
So we may once again arrive,
To get a bird's eye view
Of what it means to be alive.
For there is beauty in returning,
Oh how wonderful, how strange,
To see that everything is different
But know it's only you who's changed.”
“Perhaps we’re all fellow sufferers unable to see each other’s truth.”
Source: When Nietzsche Wept
“Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage of development of the science, and thus what appears to us as elegance of description really reflects the interconnectedness of Nature's laws at different levels.”
“Perhaps we see loneliness in others simply to feel less lonely ourselves.”
Source: Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
“Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.”
Source: Get Rich Collection
“Perhaps we should all just accept the peculiarities of the world and the people in it.”
Source: A Fire at the Exhibition
“Perhaps we should all settle down and think about what's good in the world and what we want to do here. If we find this planet and its history and its story to be sacred, let's preserve and nourish it, and then we can go home at night and say whatever prayers we choose.”
“Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran a 3°F fever.”
“Perhaps we should rejoice that people’s emotions aren’t designed for the good of the group. Often the best way to benefit one’s group is to displace, subjugate, or annihilate the group next door. Ants in a colony are closely related, and each is a paragon of unselfishness. That’s why ants are one of the few kinds of animal that wage war and take slaves. When human leaders have manipulated or coerced people into submerging their interests into the group’s, the outcomes are some of the history’s worst atrocities.”
Source: How the Mind Works
“Perhaps we should sometimes resist analysing what it is to be childish and instead develop ways to be alongside children that allow us to feel a little more what it is to be childish.”
Source: Schemas in the Early Years
“Perhaps we should stop talking about being faithful to have a quiet time with God each day, as if we were doing something to earn a reward. It would be better to talk about the privilege of spending time with the God of the universe and the importance for our own sake of being consistent in that practice.”
Source: Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love
“Perhaps we should take Jesus’s prayer seriously and participate in the ongoing work of reflecting God’s kingdom—a racially and economically just kingdom—here on earth.”
Source: American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
“Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much?”
“Perhaps we shouldn't try to answer the questions now - let's just note them down. Maurice always said the power in a question is not in the answer, it's in the way the imagination gets busy when the question is at work.”
Source: In This Grave Hour
“Perhaps we think that we won't find another human being inside that person. Perhaps we think that there are some people in this world who I can't ever communicate with, and so I'll just give up before I try. And how sad it is to think that we would give up on any other creature who's just like us.”
“Perhaps we think we can destroy the places of our past by returning: by reimagining, rebuilding. A utopia is, after all, a thing that rises from disaster, ruin, rubble. Without all that failure there can be no such thing as a utopia, since there would be no other reality to compare it to.”
Source: State of Paradise
“Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.”
“Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.”
“Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness. When it leaves to find others, the difficulty begins because we are faced with our humanness, our past, our very being.”
Source: The Secret Lives of People in Love
“Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”
“Perhaps we weren't meant to understand some things. Perhaps all we needed to do was to listen to the unspoken language of the heart,”
Source: A Story of Karma: Finding Love and Truth in the Lost Valley of the Himalaya
“Perhaps we will one day be able at least to admit of a God possessing sufficient majesty and expansiveness to transcend the limits of our own imaginations and experience. But meanwhile, . . . we might do well to look upon the inadequacy of our concepts of God as the truest mirror of those limitations that define our condition.”
“Perhaps we women are more willing to break the ice. Two things that made this possible most often in many of our lives were intimate friendship and reading.”
Source: How Reading Changed My Life
“Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed.”
“Perhaps we wouldn't eat so much, or smoke, or drink so much if we were paying attention to ourselves. Perhaps we wouldn't talk so much if we were paying attention to each other. All these oral activities are trying to meet a need, and perhaps the greatest need is to be seen and heard.”
Source: Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story
“Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.”
Source: States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America
“Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.”
Source: Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
“Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.”
“Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation of reward or punishment, safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.”
“Perhaps we've invented conspiracies for our own psychic well-being, to heal ourselves.”
Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo
“Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.”
Source: American fried; adventures of a happy eater
“Perhaps wealthy people can purchase everything—doctors, medicine or even favors from God”
Source: Porus : In the Shadow of Betrayals
“Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.”
“Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV.”
“Perhaps Western civilization, with the Amsterdam red-light district as its fetid symbol, does have something to answer for. Maybe these streets are typical of a society without modesty, morally unhinged.”
Source: Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
“Perhaps Westerners are in a better position to practice true renunciation than uneducated Orientals because most Western people, by the time they come to the Dharma, have led a pretty full worldly life with lots of sensual pleasures, money and lots of toys to play with. They have seen that the path of accumulation of worldly treasure does not lead to happiness or contentment. That's why they come to the Dharma.”
“Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.”
“Perhaps what bullies need is not to be shamed or given a taste of their own medicine, but a reminder of who they are.”
Source: Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You
“Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm -- and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt.”
“Perhaps what I liked far more was the evening. Everything about it thrilled me. Every glance that crossed my own came like a compliment, or like an asking and a promise that simply lingered in midair between me and the world around me. I was electrified — by the chaffing, the irony, the glances, the smiles that seemed pleased I existed, by the buoyant air in the shop that graced everything from the glass door to the petits fours, to the golden ochre spell of plastic glasses filled with scotch whiskey, to Mr. Venga's rolled up sleeves, to the poet himself, down to the spiral staircase where we had congregated with the babe sisters — all seemed to glow with a luster at once spellbound and aroused.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“Perhaps what is really being proposed by the Evangelical fundamentalists is a return not to the 1950s family but to the family of biblical days. The Old Testament is clear that this was a strong patriarchal family. Men were permitted several wives and concubines. Children were legitimately conceived by these concubines outside of marriage. . . . Is this the Evangelical's idea of an ideal family?”
“Perhaps what makes friendship and love exciting is the continuing discovery of another personality.”
“Perhaps what matters when all is said and done is not who puts us down but who picks us up.”
Source: Louisiana's Way Home
“Perhaps what unites this group of disparate souls is their unique sense of humor, one only an eighty or a ninety year old has. With each of those who shared their tales, I’ve smiled, chuckled, laughed out loud, and occasionally doubled over and laughed till I cried.”
Source: The Other Veterans of World War II: Stories from Behind the Front Lines