P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.”
Source: The Ender Quintet
“Peter," she whispered and reached out, touching his cheek. "My little Peterbird? You flew back to me.”
“Peter,” Ashley asked softly, “Do you know what that was?” “Of course,” Peter said, much affronted. “A thimble.” “No,” said Ashley, staring, “That was a kiss.” “Didn’t it strike you as a little different from other thimbles you’ve had in the past?” Peter looked shifty. “Well, yes.” “Ha!” “It was my first thimble with tongue.” Peter told her with dignity.”
“Peter: Oh, the cleverness of me. Wendy: Of course, I did nothing... Peter: You did a little. Wendy: Oh, the cleverness of you.”
“Peter: Where are you two going? Tris: Why aren't you with your attack group eating dinner? Peter: I don't have one. I'm injured. Christina: Yeah right, you are! Peter: Well, I don't want to go to battle with a bunch of factionless. So I'm going to stay here. Christina: Like a coward. Let everyone else clean up the mess for you. Peter: Yep! Have fun dying.”
“Petersburg is a small town, and prim by Alaska standards. A tall, loose-limbed woman walked by and struck up a conversation. Her name was Kai, she said, Kai Sandburn. She was cheerful, outgoing, easy to talk to. I confessed my climbing plans to her, and to my relief she neither laughed nor acted as though they were particularly strange. “When the weather’s clear,” she simply offered, “you can see the Thumb from town. It’s pretty. It’s over there, right across Frederick Sound.” I followed her outstretched arm, which gestured to the east, at a low wall of clouds.
Kai invited me home for dinner. Later I unrolled my sleeping bag on her floor. Long after she fell asleep, I lay awake in the next room, listening to her peaceful exhalations. I had convinced myself for many months that I didn’t really mind the absence of intimacy in my life, the lack of real human connection, but the pleasure I’d felt in this woman’s company—the ring of her laughter, the innocent touch of a hand on my arm—exposed my self-deceit and left me hollow and aching.”
Source: Into the Wild
“Petersburg, growing up at home, all by my family and friends, Petersburg really, city-raised me, you know everybody there.”
“Petey, hiç değişmemişsin. Bunu hatırlıyor musun?" diyerek ona doğrulttu. "Dıkşın, dıkşın, dıkşın."
Petey kollarını sallayarak güldü. "Dışşş, dışşşş, dışşşş.”
Source: Petey
“Petin luottamuksesi. Anna anteeksi.
Neljä sanaa, puolitoista milligrammaa lyijyä, korkeintaan.
Kahdeksassadasosa sinikantista ruutuvihkoa, jota myydään Agricolankadulla välitunnilla.
Niin
kevein asein murskataan muuri, jota hän on tiili tiileltä, kuukausi kuukaudelta ja vuosi vuodelta rakentanut.
Hän seisoo tiilimurskan keskellä, syyttäjä, jonka on pakko luopua syyttämisestä, kuuro, jonka on pakko kuulla.
Naurettava, jonka on pakko nauraa, ja
naurankin, noustessani penkille ja katsoessani kauan kaipaamani kaivatun perään.
Karhupuiston karhupatsaan juurella Ritva kääntyy, vilkuttaa minulle, ja kun vilkutan takaisin, on kädessäni kaikkien näkemieni elokuvien voima ja suru ja anteeksianto.”
Source: Vastavalo
“Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown.”
“Petitions are ridiculous.”
“Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.”
“Petra Hermans kan alles maken. Zolang het maar vredig is.”
“Petra is a brilliant display of man's artistry in turning barren rock into a majestic wonder.”
“Petra Ral, 10 kills, 48 assists. Oluo Bozado, 39 kills, 9 assists. Eld Jinn, 14 kills, 32 assists. Gunther Schultz, 7 kills, 40 assists. "Come back home alive, and you're a full-fledged member," is the common view in the Survey Corps... but *those people* have lived through hell again and again, producing results all the way. They've learned how to live... When facing a titan, you never know enough. Think all you want. A lot of the time, you're going into a situation you know nothing about. So what you need is to be quick to act... and make tough decisions in worst-case scenarios. Still, that doesn't mean they've got no heart. Even when they had their weapons pointed at you, they had strong feelings. However... they have no regrets.”
Source: Attack on Titan, Vol. 6
“Petra turned to her. "Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now!" Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to squeeze. "I didn't mean..." "No one ever does." Petra said, shoving the baton back at Shanti.”
Source: Beauty Queens
“Petrarch declared that all money was unstable, whirling away "possibly due to the roundness of the coins," further elaborating that money won by gambling was the least stable of all.”
Source: Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling
“Petrarch sometimes wrote letters to long-dead authors. He was also a dedicated hunter of classic manuscripts. Once, after discovering some previously unknown works of Cicero, he wrote Cicero the news.”
Source: Reader’s Block
“Petrarch warned that "what you won, a thousand will wrest from you here and there; what you lose, no one will give back to you." Even when a winner, he reasoned, the gambler did not truly profit.”
Source: Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling
“Petrichor is the earth unearthing itself on a rainy day.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“Petrichor. It’s a word that describes the smell of fresh rain after warm weather.”
Source: Verity
“Petrichor - The word that describes the smell of fresh rain after warm weather.”
Source: Verity
“Petricor: infusión de agua y grava, con un fresco aroma que aporta serenidad.”
Source: Sonidos de algodón
“Petrie found nothing that disproved the pyramidologist's assumption that the Great Pyramid had been built according to a master plan. Indeed, he describes the Pyramid's architecture as being filled with extraordinary mathematical harmonies and concordances: those same strange symmetries that had so haunted the pyramidologist.
Petrie not only noted, for example, that the proportions of the reconstructed pyramid approximated to pi - which others have since elaborated to include those twin delights of Renaissance and pyramidological mathematicians, the Golden Section and the Fibonacci Series ...”
Source: The Great Pyramid: Ancient Egypt Revisited
“Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.”
“Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.”
“Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.”
“Petronius says that ‘Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived.’ That is very true, otherwise there wouldn’t exist any religion!”
“Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My remedy is then, to pluck it out. Katherine: Ay, if the fool could find where it lies. Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail. Katherine: In his tongue. Petruchio: Whose tongue? Katherine: Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell. Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.”
“Pets are almost always fatal, to oneself or to them. It
is the curse of possession or motherhood. Mothers ruin their children, choke them like ivy. Dog-lovers steal the souls of their dogs and lose something in exchange. There is an essay on this subject by (I think) Stella Benson called “A Firefly to Steer By.” Everybody ought to read it.”
Source: England Have My Bones
“Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course.”
“Pets are found to suffer from all the ailments known to the human.”
“Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.”
“Pets are the world to me. I think they are the most obvious manifestations of divine love that we are going to see this side of eternity.”
“Pets enrich our lives...and poop on our floors!”
“Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.”
“Pets reflect you like mirrors. When you are happy, you can see your dog smiling and when you are sad, your cat cries.”
“Pets require feeding, training, affection and exercise, but in return they offer unconditional love and companionship.”
“Pets that never go near areas in which a given disease is reported are routinely vaccinated against it anyway. A cat living alone on the twelfth floor in downtown Manhattan can receive up to ten vaccines at a time every year for life. A dog that never goes beyond the fire hydrant at the corner can be inoculated with up to twelve diseases each time.”
Source: Un vétérinaire en colère - Essai sur la condition animale
“Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.”
“Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.”
Source: Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home, 1986-1990
“Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.”
“Pettiness often leads both to error and to the digging of a trap for oneself. Wondering (which I am sure he didn't) 'if by the 1990s [Hitchens] was morphing into someone I didn’t quite recognize”, Blumenthal recalls with horror the night that I 'gave' a farewell party for Martin Walker of the Guardian, and then didn't attend it because I wanted to be on television instead. This is easy: Martin had asked to use the fine lobby of my building for a farewell bash, and I'd set it up. People have quite often asked me to do that. My wife did the honors after Nightline told me that I’d have to come to New York if I wanted to abuse Mother Teresa and Princess Diana on the same show. Of all the people I know, Martin Walker and Sidney Blumenthal would have been the top two in recognizing that journalism and argument come first, and that there can be no hard feelings about it. How do I know this? Well, I have known Martin since Oxford. (He produced a book on Clinton, published in America as 'The President We Deserve'. He reprinted it in London, under the title, 'The President They Deserve'. I doffed my hat to that.) While Sidney—I can barely believe I am telling you this—once also solicited an invitation to hold his book party at my home. A few days later he called me back, to tell me that Martin Peretz, owner of the New Republic, had insisted on giving the party instead. I said, fine, no bones broken; no caterers ordered as yet. 'I don't think you quite get it,' he went on, after an honorable pause. 'That means you can't come to the party at all.' I knew that about my old foe Peretz: I didn't then know I knew it about Blumenthal. I also thought that it was just within the limit of the rules. I ask you to believe that I had buried this memory until this book came out, but also to believe that I won't be slandered and won't refrain—if motives or conduct are in question—from speculating about them in my turn.”
“Pettiness seems to go hand in hand with vindictiveness. The smaller the person, the larger the need for revenge. This may account for the fact that some consensual crimes have stiffer penalties than do most crimes with innocent victims.”
Source: Ain't nobody's business if you do: the absurdity of consensual crimes in a free society
“Pettiness separates; breadth unites. Let us be broad and big.”
Source: Anarchism and Other Essays
“Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.”
“Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.”
Source: False Memory
“Petty laws breed great crimes.”
Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida
“Petty mind mocks.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.”
Source: First Things First