P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Park hill staten island seal, rock the reel to reel we high hills deep”
“Park stood up when she got to their row, and as soon as she sat down, he took her hand and kissed it. It happened so fast, she didn't have time to die of ecstasy or embarrassment.”
Source: Eleanor & Park
“Park was never going to love her more than he did on the day they said goodbye. And she couldn’t bear to think of him loving her less.”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On
“Park went to the usual dispensary line, feeling the absence of Keller as if she had lost her favorite coat. She felt cold, uneasy, vulnerable. The domestic android, Megex, seemed to notice her discomfort from behind the counter and said, “Would you like a juice bulb?”
“Thank you,” Park said gratefully as the brown-haired android placed it on her tray.”
“Parker and Hardison look like they're having a good time."
"I see," Nate said. "Should we be worried?”
Source: The Bestseller Job
“Parker didn’t so much melt against him as he tried to inhabit the same skin Jake was wearing, and Jake wasn’t going to complain about that.”
Source: American Love Songs
“Parker Haas, crying Omaha, and his sleepless Rose.”
Source: Sleepless
“Parker looked disappointed, but her expression quickly shifted to a believable smile as she walked me to the door. And then we had a really awkward goodbye. I wanted to hug her, but I didn’t know why I wanted to and didn’t know if she’d even want me to hug her. So, I waved like an idiot and bolted. (Page 58, Just Don't Fall)”
“Parker pouts and it's kinda hot. And by 'kinda' I mean, I kinda wanna sit on his face.”
Source: Broken
“Parker’s eyebrows dip, but his gaze slides back up to mine. “To love
someone that much.”
My heart seizes, my eyes stinging with fresh tears. I’m forced to look
away as I pull my lips between my teeth, holding back another mournful
cry.
“Sorry. You should go dance now.”
Swallowing, I glance back up at Parker, who has returned his attention to
the lake. He teeters on the balls of his feet, his jaw clenching. I’m startled
by his words as the chilly water laps at my toes—he’s never apologized for
anything before, but he apologizes for this. For his brush with vulnerability,
his tender curiosity. That’s nothing to be sorry for.
“It felt like completion,” I tell him, explaining it the only way that makes
sense. “It felt like a pinnacle. Like everything in your life has come full
circle, and this person is the culmination of every dream, every plea, every
dandelion wish.
“And when your dreams dissolve, and the wishes scatter, it’s hard to find
joy in anything else. How can you ever obtain completion again when
you’re missing the biggest piece?” A ragged sigh escapes me, and I watch
the emotions play across his face, a melancholy reflection pulling at his
features. “I have to believe there’s still joy in the journey—this new journey
—and that life isn’t all about the finished puzzle. There’s just as much
fulfillment in putting it together.”
Source: The Wrong Heart
“Parker siguió escribiendo columnas para Esquire hasta 1962. El último libro que reseñó fue Siempre hemos vivido en el castillo, de Shirley Jackson, que le encantó. "Me devuelve la fe en el terror y en la muerte. No puedo decir nada mejor del libro ni de su autora". Estas fueron las últimas palabras de Parker como crítica literaria.”
Source: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion (Hardcover)
“Parker simply went where money was and took it away.”
Source: The Handle
“Parker wasn't supposed to be a series. He was supposed to be one book, and if he was only going to be in one book, I didn't worry about it. And then an editor at Pocket Books said "Write more books about him." So I didn't go back at that point and give him a first name. If I'd known he would've been a series, I would've done two things differently. First, I would've given him a first name because that means for 27 books, I've had to find some other way to say, "Parker parked the car."”
“Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.”
“Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart—had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.”
“Parker: When can you start? Rainie: I can start tomorrow if you'd like. My schedule is pretty much open. All I have to keep me at home is Thomas. Parker: Ah. It figures that there'd be a man in the picture. You're too lovely to be unattached. Rainie: Thomas is a cat.”
“Parking at a garage is like going to a prostitute. Why pay for it when you can apply yourself, and then may be you can get it for free.”
“Parking himself on the chaise lounge, he stared at the gown that Lassiter had handled so roughly. The fine satin was bunched up in waves, the disorder creating a wonderful, shimmering display over on the bed.
“My beloved is dead,” he said out loud.
As the sound of the words faded, something was suddenly, stupidly clear: Wellesandra, blooded daughter of Relix, was never filling out that bodice again. She was never going to put the skirting over her head and wriggle into the corset, or free the ends of her hair from the lace-ups in the back. She wasn’t going to look for matching shoes, or get pissed off because she sneezed right after she put her mascara on, or worry about whether she was going to spill on the skirting.
She was… dead.”
Source: Lover Reborn
“Parking is a nightmare for me... I still have sensors on my car that help me park.”
“Parking Reform Made Easy provides both a theoretical framework and practical methods for reforming parking requirements. By giving planners a sound basis for developing reforms, Richard Willson remedies the problem that many planners feel unqualified to challenge and change long-standing minimum parking requirements.”
“Parking's expensive, so I walk or ride my bike, which is good because my girlfriend's getting her PhD as an environmental engineer.”
“Parkinson’s disease in its later stages can torment with its unpredictability. It seizes you then lets you go from hour to hour or later, even from minute to minute… the medicines are partially effective – tablets enhance the supply of dopamine, the key neurotransmitter that is inexplicably depleted in this illness… in a bad trough someone with Parkinson’s may freeze completely. Pg252”
Source: The Golden Rule: Lessons in living from a doctor of ageing
“Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.”
“Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.”
“Parkinson's is my toughest fight. No, it doesn't hurt. It's hard to explain. I'm being tested to see if I'll keep praying, to see if I'll keep my faith. All great people are tested by God.”
“Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.”
“Parklands are often positioned as apolitical, as “common” or public land that somehow eludes examination amidst the grit of property markets and land-use battles, but it is critical to understand parks as a central feature of colonial land logics, as aggressively regulating and disciplining land and its occupations.”
Source: On This Patch of Grass: City Parks on Occupied Land
“Parkour belongs to the ones who live it, not the ones who want to live thanks to it.”
“Parkour does not have to be liked or disliked! Parkour is here and it will stay here forever! Because it was born from a pure heart and nourished from all the love that a son can give to his father!”
“Parkour is a Free Running sport... if you can't fight well... parkour is there to safe you.”
“Parkour teaches you to be sure of what you are able to do.”
“Parkour was never invented by anyone, it's always been here.”
“Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind that I like to photograph.”
“Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.”
Source: The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
“Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“Parks benefit everyone. And those (men) who approach nature with arrogance instead of reverence may fail to reap the rewards available to all who recognize that the journeys are those made with the mind, not the body.
'When a mountain is climbed, it is said to be conquered--(may) as well say a man is conquered when a fly (lands) on his head.'
-John Muir”
Source: Go Outside and Come Back Better: Benefits from Nature That Everyone Should Know
“Parla abbastanza a lungo con qualcuno e tirerà fuori la storia del tempo.
Ma il tempo non guarisce veramente le ferite, non allontana affatto il dolore - fa il contrario. Il tempo dà altro tempo alla ferita d'infettarsi e dà a noi il tempo di tornare sui luoghi di quel dolore.
È come l'infanzia, in fondo. Si dice che si cresce, ci si lasciano alle spalle certe cose, ma non è così: l'infanzia cresce insieme a noi, ce la portiamo avanti. Viviamo e non facciamo altro che rivivere quelle paure e quei piaceri, quelle scoperte e quegli abbandoni. Specialmente quegli abbandoni. Veniamo abbandonati, delusi, traditi dalle stesse persone per anni - per sempre.
Allora a che serve dire che è passato del tempo?
In che modo dovrebbe aiutarci?”
Source: Le ferite originali
“Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words - to keep your language as simple and direct as Roman rood. Don't make a big production out of it. Just lay it on the table.”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“Parla Come Mangi' --It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you eat”
“Parla del tempo: non solo quello fatto di ore, minuti e secondi, giorni o anni. Parla del tuo tempo, di quello che non puoi misurare con l’orologio, di quello che non conti se stai con
chi ti fa stare bene, di quello che ti manca se pensi a tutto quello che c’è da fare. Di quello che hai paura di perdere e di quello che hai già perso. Cos’è il tempo, per te?”
Source: Al dolce poi ci pensiamo
“Parlando di morale, Camus fa ridere quei cinici che, dopo aver letto Lenin, Trotskij e Stalin, primeggiavano per sofismi. Leon Trotskij, che ha creato l'Armata Rossa, che ha massacrato i marinai libertari di Kronstadt, scrive La loro morale e la nostra. Si tratta di un capolavoro per i dittatori di ieri, di oggi e di domani. Distinguendo tra morale borghese e morale rivoluzionaria impedisce di giudicare la rivoluzione con le categorie della morale borghese ed esige un giudizio secondo i criteri della morale rivoluzionaria. È così che fucilare, torturare, mandare al gulag sono azioni cattive per il borghese, ma per il rivoluzionario sono buone, perché, presentate come inezie dialettiche, pur nella loro negatività, sono chiamate a produrre il positivo avvento della rivoluzione proletaria, perlomeno per quei pochi che saranno sopravvissuti. La logica consequenziale e opportunista di questa morale rivoluzionaria priva di principi, stava bene tanto a Hitler, Lenin, Mussolini che a Stalin, Pétain, Trotskij, Franco e Mao, e stava bene persino a Sartre. Ma non è mai andata bene a Camus.”
“Parlare con lui m'infondeva una piacevole sensazione di familiarità, come accade con certi personaggi secondari della nostra infanzia: il gestore del negozio di fumetti, il venditore di caramelle... nonostante il tempo trascorso questi individui sono incapaci di considerarci come gli strani adulti che siamo diventati, e continuano invece a guardarci come i bambini che non abbiamo mai smesso di essere.”
Source: Quattrocento
“Parlare non risolve i problemi, semmai gli dà una lisciatina. Non si può fare affidamento sulle parole, questo è tutto.”
Source: Non avevo capito niente
“Parlava in spagnolo, ma lo capivo a stento, aveva una pronuncia strana: pizzicava fortemente la erre e faceva sibilare le esse.”
Source: La Pura Vida
“Parlay bets are the combination of at least two wagers. A parlay wager might include a bet that a baseball team will win, the pitcher will record at least three strikeouts, and the catcher will hit a home run. The possibilities are endless, and the added bets don’t all have to come from the same game or even the same sport. The upside is that, with each additional component, the payout rate goes up. The downside is that parlays are all or nothing: If a single leg of the parlay misses, the whole bet loses, so adding more lines to the parlay drastically reduces the odds of winning. The result is pure excitement. “A parlay is sort of like poppers mixed with molly mixed with cocaine mixed with a heart condition,” journalist Anthony Schneck writes. The excitement factor is offset by the fact that parlays are simply a dumb way to bet for the vast majority of gamblers. Between 1989 and 2023, casinos kept roughly five cents for every dollar bet on non-parlay sports bets and thirty-one cents for every dollar bet on parlays; still, parlays are hugely popular among amateur bettors, especially in the United States. In the age of cryptocurrency and GameStop, these gamblers want to multiply their money many times over, and they want to do it quickly. So they turn to parlays, which represent the jackpotification of sports betting, the transformation of sports betting slips into lottery tickets.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“Parlayıp kaybolan aşkın, dünler gibi geride kalmaya mahkum.
Önümüzde yeni yollar, yarınlar umuttan mahrum.”
Source: Sanmasınlar Yıkıldık
“Parler c'est parcourir un fil. Écrire c'est au contraire le posséder, le démêler.”
Source: Pas ici, pas maintenant
“Parler de lui au présent c'était le ranger du côté des vivants. Et s'il était vivant, alors je n'étais pas tout à fait morte.”
Source: Les Passants de Lisbonne
“parler
faire pierre de la face, pour la dilapider”
Source: Idéal portrait
“Parliament has become so undermined it is almost unable to do the job that people expect of it. A glaring example is the budget bill, where there was no thoughtful debate or scrutiny of the legislation.”