P Quotes
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“Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.”
Source: Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches
“Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament.”
“Parliament is for discussion. Parliament is to show dissent. Parliament is to give an argument for one's opposition, to present an argument when they support. To uphold this basic spirit of Parliament, is the responsibility of every person who values democracy. It is the responsibility of those present in the Parliament and those outside. It is the responsibility of those in power and those not in power. This is a matter of spirit and it should be followed.”
“Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.”
Source: The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker
“Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.”
Source: The Portable Edmund Burke
“Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.”
“Parliament is the most visible and exaggerated example of how our societyis changing. It illustrates the blurring of our daytime work hours into night, the impact of technology on the 24/7 media cycle, and the slow twisting and shaping of our biological sleep patterns to fit our modern lives. In a democracy, parliament is our society's last line of defence, safeguarding our wellbeing, our pursuit of happiness. In some far-off future, it may be our democracy that decides what it means to be human.”
Source: On Sleep
“Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.”
“Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.”
“Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility of both the government and the Opposition.”
“Parliament will also struggle with Shakespeare. Rappers stutter too when they flirt. The palms of poised politicians sweat. Police officers fart. Princesses get wedgies. Royal Guards had to keep from laughing. The last rep in the gym will make any arm shake. Presidents had to apply. Rome fell.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Parliamentary committees are becoming more independent, tactics are becoming more sophisticated, and industries that don't want to be bushwhacked by some damaging legislative amendment will have to spend more time and money watching the Hill.”
“Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world.”
Source: The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
“Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then allowed to preside over a system that remains in essence intact. If the British people were ever to ask themselves what power they truly enjoyed under our political system they would be amazed to discover how little it is”
“Parliamentary government is simply a mild and disguised form of compulsion. We agree to try strength by counting heads instead of breaking heads, but the principle is exactly the same... The minority gives way not because it is convinced that it is wrong, but because it is convinced that it is a minority.”
Source: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: And Three Brief Essays
“Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.”
“Parliaments are the great lie of our time.”
“Parliaments cannot right the world; but enough individuals feeling love can.”
“Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.”
“Parmaklarımı birleştirip uçlarına tahta cetvelle vurmayı ‘akıl eden’ öğretmenler, amirinin önünde ellerimi arkada kavuşturduğum için ‘Amirin karşısında öyle durulmaz!’ diye kulağıma tıslayarak koluma asılan memur ve o amir; tuttuğum takımı yenen takımların oyuncuları, taraftarları, malzemecileri; sevgimi karşılıksız bırakan bütün kadınlar! Alkışlayın beni. Ve sen Nesteren, asıl sen alkışla, bir tek sen alkışla!”
Source: Veciz Sözler
“Parmesan cheese?" Miller said. "We're not cooking Italian food."
I rolled my eyes. "Yes, keep grating it, and when you're done, whisk it into those eggs. Now you know the secret ingredient of our fried chicken."
Once the dredging pans were ready, I showed the young cooks through the four steps. They watched me closely. Ben, sweet baby--- bless him--- wrote everything down. The first step was to dry the chicken pieces with a paper towel, so they were tacky but not wet. This would enable the seasoning to stick to them. The secret here was not to salt too far in advance, because although salt helped enhance flavor, it also dried out meat. The second step was to dredge it in the flour mixed with cayenne pepper. After you shook off the excess flour, you put it into the mixture of eggs and grated Parmesan cheese. Finally, you dunked it into a second flour mixture that contained enough freshly ground black pepper to turn the mixture gray. This chicken was, as the kids say, fire, meaning it was so good. Its heat was balanced with the Parmesan cheese.”
Source: My Magnolia Summer
“Parmi les nombreuses maîtresses que vous avez troussées, avouez qu’il y en a une ou deux qui vous ont laissé des échardes dans le saignant. Il ne s’agit jamais de la plus belle, de la plus douce, de la plus prestigieuse, non, non… En général, ce serait plutôt une conquête de seconde catégorie, levée parce qu’elle était piquante, que vous avez prise pour l’aventure d’un soir. Et voici que la sournoise vous a ferré, en embuscade! (nouvelle "Le sentiment du fer")”
Source: Le Sentiment du fer
“Parmi les évacués, il y a bizarrement beaucoup d'épouses d'employés du comité du parti de la ville de Kiev. Au début, elles étaient fortes et solides. [...] Six mois plus tard, je ne la reconnaissais plus : sans aucun bain de Narzan, elle a maigri d'au moins dix kilos. [...] Que mangeaient-elles à Kiev alors ?”
Source: Anton
“Parminder kept her unwept tears locked tightly inside where they seemed to undergo an alchemical transformation, returning to the outer world as lava slides of rage.”
“Parnet: I want you to talk about desire. What is desire, exactly? Let's consider the question as simply as possible. When Anti-Oedipus...
Deleuze: It's not what they thought it was, in any case, not what they thought it was, even back then. Even, I mean, the most charming people who were... It was a big ambiguity, it was a big misunderstanding, or rather a little one, a little misunderstanding. I believe that we wanted to say something very simple. In fact, we had an enormous ambition, notably when one writes a book, we thought that we would say something new, specifically that one way or another, people who wrote before us didn't understand what desire meant. That is, in undertaking our task as philosophers, we were hoping to propose a new concept of desire. But, regarding concepts, people who don't do philosophy mustn't think that they are so abstract... On the contrary, they refer to things that are extremely simple, extremely concrete, we'll see this later... There are no philosophical concepts that do not refer to non-philosophical coordinates. It's very simple, very concrete. What we wanted to express was the simplest thing in the world. We wanted to say: up until now, you speak abstractly about desire because you extract an object that's presumed to be the object of your desire. So, one could say, I desire a woman, I desire to leave on a trip, I desire this, that. And we were saying something really very simple, simple, simple: You never desire someone or something, you always desire an aggregate. It's not complicated. Our question was: what is the nature of relations between elements in order for there to be desire, for these elements to become desirable? I mean, I don't desire a woman - I'm ashamed to say things like that since Proust already said it, and it's beautiful in Proust: I don't desire a woman, I also desire a landscape that is enveloped in this woman, a landscape that, if needs be - I don't know - but that I can feel. As long as I haven't yet unfolded the landscape that envelops her, I will not be happy, that is, my desire will not have been attained, my desire will remain unsatisfied. I believe in an aggregate with two terms: woman/landscape, and it's something completely different. If a woman says, "I desire a dress," or "I desire (some) thing" or "(some) blouse," it's obvious that she does not desire this dress or that blouse in the abstract. She desires it in an entire context, a context of her own life that she is going to organize, the desire in relation not only with a landscape, but with people who are her friends, with people who are not her friends, with her profession, etc. I never desire some thing all by itself, I don't desire an aggregate either, I desire from within an aggregate.”
“Paro porque mi voz se quiebra, porque en un instante la imagen de Beatrice que ya no puede más barre todas aquellas palabras, de Beatrice que en silencio cierra los ojos porque ya no puede más. Y no los vuelve a abrir. Y entonces todo el mundo que me rodea se oscurece. La luz se apaga. La bombilla se funde. Si los ojos de Beatrice no miran a las cosas, las cosas están apagadas. Siempre le he tenido miedo a la oscuridad, y lo sigo teniendo, pero no se lo digo a nadie, porque me da vergüenza. Silvia me mira sin decir nada. Acerca el índice a mi ojo y recoge la lágrima que estaba tratando de contener.
—Silvia, sigo teniéndole miedo a la oscuridad.”
Source: Bianca come il latte, rossa come il sangue
“Paro pra pensar; penso, penso e não paro de pensar.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic.”
“Parochialism and provincialism are direct opposites. A provincial is always trying to live by other people's loves, but a parochial is self-sufficient.”
“Parodiando. Es decir, odiando un poco...”
Source: Farándula
“Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.”
“Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees.”
“Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.”
“Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly troubling, and which repetitions become domesticated and recirculated as instruments of cultural hegemony”
Source: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
“Parody is homage gone sour.”
Source: HER AT THE NEW YORKER
“Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons itself to the pang of wanting.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Parparinati means results that belong to the non-Self. To believe that which vyavasthit does to be one's own, is referred to as parparinati. To believe the results of the non-Self (pardravya) to be the results of the Self (Swadravya), that is parparinati.”
Source: The Guru and The Disciple
“Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.”
“Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish”
“Parrots typically operate on one volume, "LOUD." Sometimes they will vary this with "extra LOUD" and "unbearably LOUD." - Love and Feathers”
Source: LOVE & FEATHERS: What a Palm-Sized Parrot Has Taught Me About Life, Love, and Healthy
“Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.”
Source: Collected Poems
“Parrott, hate to disturb you on your day off. Need you to check out a death at the Campbell farm. Lots of important people at a weekend party. Looks like natural causes, but--"
“Okay, Chief. I’m on it.” Parrott shut down his computer and put on his heavy coat. He glanced back at Tonya’s picture before he stepped out and closed the door.”
Source: Murder in the One Percent
“Parry Gripp got famous for "It's Raining Tacos". It doesn't have to be that deep!”
“Parry Otter, the Chosen Boy Who - well - something of that sort.”
“Parrying a blow before it strikes,
Giving a commission to one who is skillful.”
Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“Parsi theater was known for melodrama.”
“Parsifal is on his way to the temple of the Grail Knights and says: “I hardly move, yet far I seem to have come”, and the all-knowing Gurnemanz replies: “You see, my son, time turns here into space”
“Parsimony is always in the forefront of a scientist's mind when choosing between theories, but it isn't always obvious how to judge it.”
Source: The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution