P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Phish is such a good band; they just make stuff up as a jam band.”
“Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.”
“Phlox: A flowering plant with rounded clusters of colorful blooms whose soft, vanilla-clove scent holds a promise of friendship”
Source: The Memory Gardener
“Phobia and neglecting the law will develop among a folk which there is injustice and inequality.”
“Phobos et dysthymiè circonscrivent l'un et l'autre une difficulté intime, un désordre intérieur du sujet par rapport aux sollicitations extérieures. Le phobos, expression d'abord cynégétique ou militaire de l'effarouchement, signifie la fuite angoissée, soudaine, irréfléchie, devant la réalité, engageant tour à tour l'agitation panique et le repli prostré. La dysthymie, c'est l'atteinte de ce principe de vie qu'est le thymos, sorte de plexus solaire de l'âme ; le vocable suggère la déroute de la ligne de vie, un malaise écœuré devant l'existence : plus même que la crainte, presque la hantise de vivre, le mal de vivre, une éclipse du plexus solaire, prenant comme la phobie la double voie du repli sur soi et de la perte panique de soi. Se profile dans l'un et l'autre vocable ainsi compris la double extension du modèle mélancolique promise par l'histoire ancienne et moderne : d'un côté vers la dépression, figure de prostration ; de l'autre vers le délire, manifestation panique.”
Source: Anthologie de l'humeur noire: Écrits sur la mélancolie d'Hippocrate à l'Encyclopédie
“Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."”
“Phoebe didn't think she'd end up being a woman like this. But if the last few years have taught her anything, it's that you really can't ever know who you are going to become.”
Source: The Wedding People
“Phoebe had recounted some injustice done to her by a playmate, saying she wouldn’t accept the girl’s apology, Evie had persuaded her to reconsider for the sake of kindness.
“But she’s a bad, selfish girl,” Phoebe had said indignantly.
Her mother’s reply was gentle but matter-of-fact. “Kindness counts the most when it’s given to people who don’t deserve it.”
“Does Gabriel have to be kind to everyone too?” Phoebe had demanded.
“Yes, darling.”
“Does Father?”
“No, Redbird,” Sebastian had replied, his mouth twitching at the corners. “That’s why I married your mother—she’s kind enough for two people.”
“Mother,” Gabriel had asked hopefully, “could you be kind enough for three people?”
At that, their father had taken a sudden intense interest in his newspaper, lifting it in front of his face. A quiet wheeze emerged from behind it.
“I’m afraid not, dear,” Evie had said gently, her eyes sparkling. “But I’m sure you and your sister can find a great deal of kindness in your own hearts.”
Source: Devil's Daughter
“Phoebe is disappointed, too. She didn’t have a speech, but she was still looking forward to getting up there, speaking in front of the crowd, saying nice things about what Lila has meant to her this week, and really taking her place as Lila’s friend. But maybe this is why Lila has no real friends, Phoebe thinks. She doesn’t know how to keep them. She keeps trading them in for something else.”
Source: The Wedding People
“Phoebe knew West couldn't see beyond his own fears of being unworthy, of someday causing her unhappiness. But this high degree of concern was precisely what inclined her to trust him. One thing was clear: if she wanted him, she would have to be the pursuer.
West lounged on the floor between her two sons, a heavy forelock of dark hair falling over his forehead. "What does a chicken say?" he asked Stephen, holding up a wooden figure.
The toddler took it from him and answered, "Rowwr!"
West blinked in surprise and began to chuckle along with Justin. "By God, that is a fierce chicken."
Delighted by his effect on West, Stephen held up the chicken. "Rowwr," he growled again, and this time West and Justin collapsed in laughter. Quickly West reached out to the toddler's blond head, pulled him closer and crushed a brief kiss among the soft curls.
Had there been any doubts lingering in Phoebe's mind, they were demolished in that moment.
Oh, yes... I want this man.”
Source: Devil's Daughter
“Phoebe!"
Lady Phoebe Ravenel turned and came to her with a laugh of delight.
They had known each other their entire lives, growing up together, sharing secrets, joys, and sorrows. Phoebe was strikingly beautiful, as tall and willowy as Merritt was short and solid. Like Merritt, she had been widowed a few years ago, although in Phoebe's case, the loss had not been unexpected. Her first husband, Henry, had suffered from a prolonged wasting disease, and had passed away before the birth of their second son. Then West Ravenel had come into Phoebe's life, and they had married after a courtship so brief, it hardly even qualified as whirlwind.”
Source: Devil in Disguise
“Phoebe left a note asking me to go through our family genealogy books to see if we had any Scottish ancestors. She found none on your mother's side at all, and she said you'd be disappointed if there were none on Father's side."
Surprised and touched by both sisters' concern, Keir shook his head with a smile. "Dinna worry about that, Seraphina. I decided 'tis enough to be Scottish in my heart."
"Still, you wouldn't mind if I told you we have some Scottish blood, would you?" she asked, her eyes twinkling. "Because I've discovered that we do in fact have a Scot in our family tree! It's been overlooked because he's not in our direct line. I had to trace the connection through some female ancestors instead of going only through the male lineage. But we are very clearly indisputably descended from a Scot who was our great-great-great-great-great... well, let's say eighteen-times-great... grandfather. And just see who it is!" Seraphina unfolded the parchment, which was inscribed with a long vertical chart of connected names. And at the top-
ROBERT I
King of Scots
"Robert the Bruce?" Keir could feel his heart expanding in his chest.
"Yes," Seraphina said gleefully, leaping up and bouncing on her heels.
Keir stood, laughing, and bent to kiss her cheek. "One drop of Robert the Bruce's blood will do the job. I could no' be happier. Thank you, sister." He tried to hand the chart back to her, but she shook her head.
"Keep that if you like. Isn't it wonderful news? I have to go tell Ivo we're Scottish!" She left the room triumphantly.”
Source: Devil in Disguise
“Phoebe makes her way and leaves. Grant is frozen. A whole minute goes by. Then, he reaches forward, clutching the air that used to be occupied. It was occupied right? Yes. Yes, she was right here. Right here. Oh, how fast things change.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.”
Source: Lady Audley's Secret
“Phoebe prefers this new way of talking. And maybe this is just one of the really nice things about getting older. Maybe this is the part of her life when she gets to start saying what she means, for better or worse. Because no amount of truth can be worse than the feeling she got after years of hiding from it.”
Source: The Wedding People
“Phoebe pressed herself into Violet, as closer couldn’t be too close, and the slightest separation, agony. She wanted to lose herself in Violet and never be found. Drown herself in Violet and never be rescued.”
Source: Invisible
“Phoebe tapped the toe of her sneaker against the dock. “There’s only one good use for a man like Heath Champion.” “Here we go again,” Molly muttered. Phoebe’s lip curled. “Target practice.”
“Phoebe, the fact that I asked you to be a chaperone should have made it obvious that I didn't want a chaperone at all."
"I have no desire to be one," Phoebe retorted. "However, the children are asking why you're taking so long, and I can't very well explain that you're a libidinous goat."
"No," Gabriel replied, "because then you would sound like a parsimonious prig."
Pandora was perplexed by the quick, fond grins the siblings exchanged after the sharp words.”
Source: Devil in Spring
“Phoebe was relieved to discover she would be accompanied by Westcliff's oldest son, Lord Foxhall, whom she had known her entire life. He was a big, boldly handsome man in his twenties, an avid sportsman like his father. As the earl's heir, he had been accorded a viscountcy, but he and Phoebe were far too familiar to stand on ceremony.
"Fox," she exclaimed, a wide smile crossing her face.
"Cousin Phoebe." He leaned down to kiss her cheek, his dark eyes snapping with lively humor. "It seems I'm your escort. Bad luck for you."
"To me it's good luck- how could it be otherwise?"
"With all the eligible men present, you should be with one who doesn't remember you as a little girl in pigtails, sliding down one of the banisters at Stony Cross Manor.”
Source: Devil's Daughter
“Phoebe was thinking, Insubordinate. What a lovely word. And when was the last time she'd heard a nice-looking young man use it? Why-never, that's when. What a treat. And to have a ruler who could say conscientious and citizenry in the same sentence. Lovely.”
Source: Thrice Upon a Marigold
“Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.”
“Phoebus de Chateaupers likewise came to a 'tragic end': he married.”
Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“Phoenicians pioneered a new style of writing that reproduced not images of the things described but the sounds used for them in speech--the first alphabetic script, As trade developed, writing became more common, for clay tablets had been replaced by an Egyptian technology: papyrus. The thinner more flexible material, made from the pith of reeds growing along the Nile, is the ancestor of the English word 'paper' (now being replaced by The Tablet).”
Source: Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
“Phoenix
He already Walked through my soul, it's where he learned to fly
Now I'm getting used to being ignored in a purposeful way
Although it hurts when my heart shakes out of solitude’s grace
To find only a mirror willing to pull my embrace
Sometimes a title is dragged through its whole story like an anchor the reader's mind uses to decode ashes in the strokes
It places heavy crowns on delicate heads which form into it
As frail necks hurt from not being allowed to swing away from your sight
I've seen the rising from death by someone who truly thought they weren't coming back
And I've seen love cast into chains unexpectedly in the simpler sense of the word
To accept silence in response to sincere apologies
To stand in pain at requests our hearts don't want to fulfill
It's the issue we created by not separating our universes”
Source: I tell myself, it's the enticing lull of the moon and her shadow
“Phoenix is great. I love Phoenix, .. I love Scottsdale. I love the James Hotel. I have a Kathy Griffin suite. I love -what's that place called? AZ 88. I had never had a cheese crisp, so I went to - oh, can't remember. We went to the State Fair, where I was all about the deep-fried Twinkie. I ate every deep-fried thing - oh, it was heavenly. I ate until I got sick.”
“Phoenix Queen:
You blaze so brightly
You set fire to the heart of this world.
You conjure up enormous love in all you give,
And keep rising from the ashes as a Phoenix queen.
Some will be burned by your flame,
Try to cool you, put you out,
Make you think that your passion is something to doubt,
But the ones that truly matter will dance with your flame,
Stoke you, stroke you,
And stay lit right beside you.”
Source: The Stars In Our Scars: A Collection of Unique, Healing and Inspirational Poetry
“Phoenix sank to the desk chair and stared at her computer screen. “I don’t know. I’ve lived like this for so long, it’s who I am. Everything seems so stupid. Like, look at this girl,writing to Sasha. She’s all”—he spoke in a falsetto voice—“‘OMG!’ and ‘LOL!’ and ‘WTF?’ and ‘Girl, you should totes go out with Tyler in Telluride!’” He looked up at her.“You’re seventeen years old, and this is how seventeenyear-olds talk to each other. I’m a thousand years old, and this stuff is like alien-speak to me. If I found another Anabo,she’d be writing OMG and I’d be thinking, You’re f’ing
kidding me.”
Source: The Redemption of Ajax
“Phoenix." Tezuka's unfinished masterpiece. "Phoenix" is the Christ of manga's ode to change... Resurrection... Since I am such a noted manga scholar, you might think my life has always been a roaring success... But the truth is that I'm forever attempting to be reborn out of the flames of my own misery and painfully obvious worthlessness.”
Source: Cosplayers 2: Tezukon
“Phoenix-ul le multumeste pe aceasta cale incendiatorilor lui.”
Source: Viata mea
“Phoenix was a tougher record, a little more commercially accessible record.”
“Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Phoenix, n.
The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Phone are wonderful instruments, but I wouldn't want our daughter to marry one.”
Source: Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!
“Phone breaks are in a way the new smoke breaks.”
Source: In Limbo
“Phone calls are much more personal than texting and then when you get a girl on the phone, it's like you ask a question and you get a response back. For a text message, they can read it and get back to it whenever they want to. So that makes a difference, almost like a power play in a way.”
“Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and loaded, as complicated and full of subtext as a bleak and brilliant play.”
“Phone companies recognize that the pipes are not enough anymore. You need something to go through the pipes. You need content. I think the consolidation will continue. A huge development is mobility. We want the content where we are....producers need to be where the consumers want them to be.”
“Phone networks can capture life on our planet.”
“Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.”
“Phones are distracting. The internet is distracting.The way he looked at you? He wasn't distracted. He was consumed.”
Source: Isla and the Happily Ever After
“Phones are neither good nor bad, they are just lifeless machines that were invented to serve humankind, yet humankind, with their everlasting stupidity have turned this communication marvel into psychological suicide.”
Source: The Gospel of Technology
“Phones are only good for ordering pizza and telling someone you're running late”
Source: Crazy
“Phones are powerful at providing information.”
“Phones on, and stay alert,” Luc said. “And tell Jonah we said hello.” “Lucas,” Ethan politely said, “kiss my ass.”
Source: Blood Games
“Phones ringing in the middle
of the night always sound harsh and grating, like some savage metal tool out to
destroy the world. I felt it was my duty, as a member of the human race, to put a
stop to it”
Source: Hombres sin mujeres
“Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. 'Smartphones' completely ignore these basic facts, resulting in some of the least intelligent devices I've seen yet. Oh the irony.”
“Phonetics, you know speech, all this kind of stuff, phonograph, simple, but when you unpack the meaning it actually kind of expands out and that is what I was going for in my book "Sound Unbound" was to try and get people to figure out how do we unpack some of the meanings that go into these kinds of sonically coded landscapes.”
“Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map!”
“Phonics never went away; it was outsourced. If the schools were not providing adequate basic skills instruction, concerned parents could try to fill the gap by other means.”
Source: Language at the Speed of Sight
“Phonogram is the memory of a long period in my life through a surprisingly small filter. Those characters are basically the golem who accompanied me on that decade and a half.”