P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.”
Source: The New Moon with the Old
“Perhaps what you miss about them never existed. Perhaps it's an illusion—it's all the things your heart longs for.”
“Perhaps what you miss about them never really existed. Perhaps what you miss about them is all that you hoped for.”
“Perhaps what you miss about them really never existed. Perhaps it was an illusion—it was all that you longed for.”
“Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“Perhaps when I was a child. Then my brain fully developed and I started thinking about the logic. The Christian life is no life for this man. I have a potent predilection for the whiskey, weed and women. I like to defile all three of them, sometimes simultaneously. But yeah, it isn’t the fairytale within the bible that makes me such an infidel, I just couldn’t suffer waking up early on Sundays to praise a magical being that lacks significant proof.”
Source: Inappropriate
“Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.”
“Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.”
“Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the bodies of birds.I'll be a simple crowwho can reach the top of Antelope Butte.(From: Hard Times)”
“Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, 'How many positions did you hold,' but rather, 'How many people did you help?”
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
“Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a house fire destroys not only our worldly goods, but our attachment to what's gone.”
Source: V is for Vengeance
“Perhaps why I am so uniquely terrible is simply that I represent total Dissent. Total Dissent. T.D. 19 + 4 = 23.”
Source: Last Words: The Final Journals
“Perhaps why so much of today's photography doesn't grab us or mean anything to our personal lives is that it fails to touch upon the hidden life of the imagination and fantasy, which is hungry for stimulation.”
“Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.”
Source: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition
“Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit alone on the concert stage and merely 'think' his idealized conception of his music. Instead of recordings of actual music sound, recordings will carry the brainwaves of the composer directly to the mind of the listener.”
“Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.”
“Perhaps women are lied to more often because managers think they're not going to push back. If you're told, "We don't have the budget right now" and have no access to the budget to prove otherwise, there's not much you can do, but there's no reason why you can't ask if you can reassess in six months. Then, spend those six months chronicling every good thing you do so you return with a stack of data that proves you need that raise.”
“Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.”
Source: the female eunuch
“Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound”
Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
“Perhaps women were once so dangerous they had to have their feet bound.”
“Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their own hard-won rights and freedoms as a protection against the crminial minority who attempt (and as we thus see, by forcing liberty to commit suidcide, succed in doing) to terrorise society.”
Source: Toward the Light of Liberty: The Struggles for Freedom and Rights That Made the Modern Western World
“Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability.”
“Perhaps writing a story or a novel was not something that should be done for money, or to win praise, but for the sheer sensual pleasure of it. I liked that idea. It made me want to write lots of stories, to give myself that pleasure.”
Source: Love Has No Limits
“Perhaps you are Coyote in disguise and have chosen a spectacularly inappropriate time for a joke.”
Source: Iron and Smoke
“Perhaps,
you are destined
to suffer forever
with the regret of
not giving what I deserved
with the regret of
not loving me enough
- Suffering & sorrow”
Source: ANAMIKA: BEYOND WORDS
“Perhaps you are just close to what you have been waiting for all along and ideas start formulating in your mind and advising you to "give up". Tell them "not me".”
Source: Dream big!: See your bigger picture!
“Perhaps you are repulsed by me. Well, perhaps you are the one with the problem, not I. Perhaps you are the repulsive one. Perhaps you have never cared enough about anything in your life to weep at its loss. If that is the case, it is I who pity you. You will go through your brutish existence experiencing the small pleasures of taking things that are not yours, going places you are not welcome, sticking your elbow into the legally purchased space of another. Then you will die. Congratulations: That is your life. I hope you are happy with it. I hope you don’t regret, on your deathbed, that you never felt love, or joy, or loss. Yes, loss. There is a profound sweet melancholy in the experience of loss. It is the most delectable and pungent spice on the spice rack of life. Too bad you won’t taste it, buddy. I guess it doesn’t go with burgers and beer.”
Source: Antkind
“Perhaps you are right, sister. Perhaps it is time we all calmed down a little and started to tell each other the truth.” Šarlatová paused to look at the faces of everyone assembled in the room and added, “But it is going to take a while….a long while.”
Source: Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy
“Perhaps you are thinking: I don't care about sport. Well, neither did I. But now I realise that's partly because sport did not seem to have a place for me.”
Source: Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights
“Perhaps you are thinking: 'But a tank costs several million dollars, not including floor mats. I don't have that kind of money.' Don't be silly. You're a consumer, right? You have credit cards, right? Perhaps you are thinking: 'Yes, but how am I going to pay the credit-card company?' Don't be silly. You have a tank, right?”
“Perhaps you can burrow down into the turf and make from the moss a quilt, as the rhyme goes, but I cannot."*
*Pillows made of stones,
Bed of old kings' bones,
Quilt of moss and earth,
Deep beneath the turf,
Sleeps the faerie child,
Dreaming of the wild,
Hidden and unknown.
--- From "Now the Faeries Sleep," a nursery rhyme originating in Kent, c. 1700.”
Source: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
“Perhaps you can explain it to me, then,” she said, “how is it fair that my utterly inept cousin is in command of me, for no reason other than that he’s a man and I’m a woman? How is it fair that I master Latin and Greek as well as any man at Oxford, yet I am taught over a baker’s shop? How is it fair that a man can tell me my brain was wired wrong, when his main achievement in life seems to be his birth into a life of privilege? And why do I have to beg a man to please make it his interest that I, too, may vote on the laws that govern my life every day?”
Source: Bringing Down the Duke
“Perhaps you can feel if you can’t hear,” was her fancy. “Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted, and don’t know why, when I am standing here in the cold and hoping you will get well and happy again.”
Source: A Little Princess
“Perhaps YOU can help solve a mystery.”
“Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser.”
Source: The Colossus: and Other Poems
“Perhaps you could call your cat Meow so it could say it's own name. Or how about Stupid Cat Get Out Of Here. That would really confuse it if you tried to call it over to you.”
“Perhaps you could just allow yourself to be rescued,' Cardan says. 'For once.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.”
“Perhaps you’d care to frame me and hang me in the hall ?"
The First Wife reared back, her face twisting with confusion and scorn.
"Excuse me ?"
"You’re staring."
"I do no such thing !”
Source: Counterpoint
“Perhaps you'd hire on as Cleftlocke's minstrel."
"I'd rather be sung about than sing."
"I doubt you've got the voice for it anyway.”
Source: Cleftlocke
“Perhaps you do carry within yourself the possibility forming and creating, as a particularly happy and pure way of living.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you.”
Source: Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker
“Perhaps you expected to feel great as soon as you escaped your abuser, and maybe you did feel a great sense of relief for a while. However, as time has passed, you may be dismayed by the extent of your emotional pain.”
Source: A Journey to Healing After Emotional Abuse
“Perhaps you feel the stirrings of a wild feminine creature within, a long to leap out of the fishbowl of familiarity into the turbulent unknown.”
Source: A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids
“Perhaps you forgave him too much, but who among us would not wish to be so generously loved and generously forgiven?”
Source: Tempting the Bride
“Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are ashamed to approach Christ. Whatever the reason for your broken intimacy with God, there is good news. Jesus waits to embrace you now in the arms of unconditional, divine love.”
Source: A Gift of Love: Reflections for the Tender Heart
“Perhaps you have been looking in the wrong places.”
“Perhaps you have difficulty receiving the rich mercy of God in Christ not because of what others have done to you but because of what you’ve done to torpedo your life, maybe through one big, stupid decision or maybe through ten thousand little ones. You have squandered his mercy, and you know it.
To you I say, do you know what Jesus does with those who squander his mercy? He pours out more mercy. God is rich in mercy. That’s the whole point.
Whether we have been sinned against or have sinned ourselves into misery, the Bible says God is not tightfisted with mercy but openhanded, not frugal but lavish, not poor but rich.
That God is rich in mercy means that your regions of deepest shame and regret are not hotels through which divine mercy passes but homes in which divine mercy abides.”