P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.”
“Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.”
“Personally, I believe in tools that close the gap between professionals and beginners, understanding that — push comes to shove — this is a world of beginners.”
Source: Powering Content: Building a Nonstop Content Marketing Machine
“Personally I believe sometimes ugly things happen to good people and sometimes good people do awful things.”
Source: Stock-Still
“Personally, I believe that spending heavily on the decorations and display designs makes new
clients out of random window shoppers”
Source: Bringing the World of Super Luxury to Kuwait: 2014 Dissertation by Anas O. H. Hamshari, from the European School of Economics in Florence, Italy
“Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“Personally, I'd found daydreaming to be overrated and a waste of energy. Real life demanded too much of my focus.”
Source: The Seat Filler
“Personally, I’d rather see him strung up by his balls and hung upside down over a pit of snapping alligators. But I’ll settle for life in prison as somebody’s bottom bitch.”
Source: Dante's Revenge
“Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.”
“Personally I didn't believe God had a private torture chamber. Hell was being cut off from God, cut off from his power, his energy, Him.”
Source: Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.”
“Personally I do not believe in the likelihood of Persian oil deposits being worked at profit.”
“Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.”
Source: Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
“Personally I do not resort to force - not even the force of law - to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example - of fashion.”
“Personally, I do not want to make you a man. Men are so very frail. Men break. Men die. No, I’ve always wished to make a god.”
Source: Red Rising
“Personally, I don't think that having a water goddess for an ancestress is a guarantee of freedom against seasickness, nor come to that, shipwreck.”
Source: The Lady of the Rivers
“Personally I don't believe in bad people. I think there's always a reason for people acting badly.”
“Personally I don't believe in standing on the ice, or jamming the blueline, waiting. I have always told my players that hockey has to be played on your toes.”
“Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.”
“Personally I don't like labels: Brazil is huge and each part has its own specifics. Of course the climate influences how people dress, but even climate can be completely different in different parts of the country here. Like any other part of the world, jeans, T-shirt and sneakers are the uniform for kids in the big cities. As the streetwear scene evolves, people get more connected to global brands, thanks to Internet.”
“Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.”
Source: Bachelor Girls
“Personally I don't think day traders are speculating, because traditional speculation requires some market knowledge. They are, instead, gambling, which doesn't.”
“Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.”
“Personally I don't think there's any real intrinsic difference between comic books, movies, theatre, novels. I know there's sure to be some differences of some sorts. I've worked on novels, films, and video games, and in an adaptation, I guess one of the issues is that I have to be in love with the thing I'm adapting before I do it. So that can cause a problem. You can be too scared of it. You could be too reverential. But at the same time you want to try to capture this thing that you're obsessed by. You're fixated for a reason. What's the reason? You try to get ahold of it.”
“personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.”
Source: Requiem: A Hallucination
“Personally I don't understand why the metal press even bother, but I guess it is good they do.”
“Personally I feel for the fans because I remember the period of time when Michael Schumacher was winning. I remember waking up in the morning to watch the start of the race and then going to sleep, and then waking up when it ended because I already knew what would happen. I am pretty sure a lot of people were doing that today.”
“Personally, I feel that humanity is always in a constant process of becoming. In the words of Malcolm X, there was a time when we did not know what we know today. Let's continue to meet each other exactly where we are, help ourselves and help each other to where we are going.”
“Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional period is on the way out. What we have instead is a small island of new free music surrounded by some good reworkings of past idioms and a vast sargasso sea of absolute garbage.”
Source: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll
“Personally, I find ‘God’ to be a silly word for such unfathomable complexity.”
Source: Cali the Destroyer
“Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.”
“Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.”
“Personally I get so much of my inspiration from women in other countries, so I don't feel like American women are the leaders and I don't agree with the notion that Americans can accomplish more or do more. But I do think that what we can uniquely do here in America is mobilize and galvanize a lot of these ideas and resources. It's a war of ideas. We, Islamic women, are very well supported in this country by institutions, academic and nonprofit, that are already in the field endorsing women's rights and tolerance. The women in other communities have been the pioneers in this work.”
“Personally I give us . . . one chance of three.”
“Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.”
“Personally,
I hate those who are furtive and touchy, morose
in their ways. I have learned that you, Megistes,
are of the innocent, of the childlike ones.”
“Personally I have a great deal of fun doing it, which is an inspiration in itself really. It really allows me to daydream, as in "schooldream" which is daydreaming with ink and get paid for it which is something I don't say to schools when I go in and talk to them.”
“Personally I have always liked boys, but if it's a girl, marvelous, because I was raised among women.”
“Personally I have my own political views and being straight-edge I'm happy to talk about that, but the music that always meant the most to me, was more emotional.”
“Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army, or Navy should not desire to have very strong and positive people under him.”
Source: 1898-1903
“Personally I have never found the practice of recreational drug use appealing. In fact, I have always found the lifestyle and the people who surround it to be abhorrent.”
“Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.”
“Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.”
“Personally, I have no other ambition than to devote to the service of the King all the goodwill and effort of which I will still be capable. I know it's a small thing.”
“Personally I have to exercise a lot of agency in reading, and understanding what I read, and bearing it all in mind for long enough to make sense of the book as I go along. In no sense does it feel like a passive process by which beauty is transmitted to me without my involvement; it feels like an active effort, which an experience of beauty is the constructed result. But, I think more importantly, great novels engage my sympathies and make me desire things.”
Source: Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Personally I just want to win a championship.”
“Personally I kept my feelings out of it and created a fantasy. That's the process of going through this world being beautiful.”
“Personally, I know nothing about sex, because I have always been married.”
“Personally I know only one person who wrote about utopia. Afterwards he was executed. I suppose it's not my genre.”
Source: Pavilion of Thoughts
“Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.”