P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Part of diplomacy, the hard work of diplomacy is trying to extract whatever concessions you can get, and giving something the other side wants. Of course you've got to try to make peace with, and work with those who are your adversaries, but you don't just rush in, open the door, and say, "Here I am. Let's talk and make a deal."”
“Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.”
“Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.”
Source: A Wrinklein Time Quintet
“Part of eating well is making friends with hunger.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people.”
“Part of elegy is confrontation - not just with the idea of death, but with the person who has died.”
“Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. Do these notes merely aggravate that side of it? Merely confirm the monotonous, tread-mill march of the mind round one subject? But what am I to do? I must have some drug, and reading isn’t a strong enough drug now. By writing it all down (all?—no: one thought in a hundred) I believe I get a little outside it.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“Part of evolving and becoming who we're meant to be - whoever that is - requires respecting our inner selves so that we may be centered. Only then can we truly be happy.”
“Part of falling in love with someone is actually falling in love with yourself. Realizing that you're gorgeous, you're fearless and unpredictable, you're a firecracker spitting light, entrancing a hundred faces that stare up at you with starry eyes.”
Source: Unteachable
“Part of falling in love with someone is actually falling in love with yourself.”
Source: Unteachable
“Part of fashion is newness. It's got to be a new combination of elements that's shocking-stunning-beautiful all at the same time. But it doesn't have any emotion.”
“Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.”
“Part of flirting is that you tend to give each other a little extra slack to be obscure - to say things that are suggestive and nuanced, rather than clear and comprehensible, things you wouldn't put up with in an essay or something written by a stranger - and that can be so exciting.”
“Part of forgiving people is releasing them from our own agendas.”
Source: Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships
“Part of freedom is the right of each of us to go to hell in his own fashion.”
Source: The machinery of freedom: guide to a radical capitalism
“Part of God's agenda for your life is for you to arrive at a place of success. Do not give up on the dreams you have. Persevere until you become a success!”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“Part of God's agenda for your life is for you to arrive at the place of success. Do not give up on the dreams you have. Persevere until you become a success.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“Part of God's work in his people is synchronizing the heart and the mind thus providing freedom from the deceit of emotion-based beliefs. Emotions are changing while truth is absolute. They don't believe simply because it sounds good, or deep, beautiful, happy, fun, cool, simple, or intelligent to them; but because it's true.”
Source: Killosophy
“Part of growing up involves becoming estranged from one’s birth family. If the family romance is not broken, one never truly grows up.”
Source: Purnima
“Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.”
“Part of growing up is learning your strengths and weaknesses. What better way to figure out that hand-eye coordination ain't your thing than by getting drilled in the mouth by a red, rubber ball? You only gotta get beaned in the face so many times before you figure out, 'I better hit the books because this is not working out.”
“Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.”
Source: Every Day
“Part of growing up is narrowing your life choices to a manageable size.”
Source: Letting Go of Perfect: Women, Expectations, and Authenticity
“Part of growing up is not waiting in line at a hipster breakfast restaurant. The eggs taste the same across the street. I promise.”
“Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It's about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever.”
“Part of growing up is that you learn to have sympathy for the people who you wish to have had sympathy from.”
Source: Heaven and Hurricanes
“Part of growing up spiritually is learning to be grateful for all things, even our difficulties, disappointments, failures and humiliations.”
“Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.”
Source: Nineteen Minutes: A novel
“Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“Part of her exulted that he’d asked her, out of everyone in the coach, this question; he must think her intelligent. The rest of her, though, wanted to slap herself for disproving his thought. Here was her opportunity to have her fantasy of a deep philosophical conversation come true with Garth, and all she could say was well, not really. Idiot!”
Source: Dysmorphic Kingdom
“Part of her followed him, wherever it was that he went.”
Source: Anna Dressed in Blood
“Part of her mystery was that she drowned herself in mistakes yet had set fire to her past...”
Source: Fyra: Welcome To The Mutiny
“Part of her revolted against the insanity of the rules. Part of her was grateful. In a world of chaos, any guidelines helped. And she knew that each day she remained alive, she remained alive. One plus one plus one. The Devil's arithmetic...”
“Part of her - unreasonable Anna- still loved him. Maybe she would never stop loving him.”
Source: The Storyteller
“Part of her wanted to comfort him, to tell him everything was going to be okay. But the rest of her just wanted to throw him to the ground and rip those jeans off him. Funny how she could be so jealous of a pair of pants. They covered the sinfully male body she longed to explore.”
Source: Heart of an Angel
“Part of him had dreaded seeing Elena again and yet he couldn't keep away. He hadn't been able to bring himself to look at her at first, because he knew that Raoul had had the pleasure of her. He had wanted to punish her, make her the whore she was, but now that it had happened, he was terrified of seeing that look of hardness in her eyes, that loss of innocence that had still remained even after Athan had bedded her. He wanted to seize her and shake her until she told him every single filthy thing that she and Raoul had done together. He wanted to know in each minute detail how she had looked when Raoul had touched her, what she had said, what she'd thought, what she felt.”
Source: The Gallows Curse
“Part of him wanted to throw her down onto the straw and have done with it. For there was no surer way of losing desire for a woman than to take your fill of her. But he sensed that Eleni might be slow to realise that her duty was to please her sheikh in every aspect that he demanded. His mouth curved into a smile. She would soon learn.”
Source: The Playboy Sheikh's Virgin Stable-Girl
“Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking.”
Source: The power that preserves
“Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.”
“Part of how you can win and deserve to win is to know what’s worth more to you than winning.”
“Part of human survival is developing an understanding that your job is damaging your health and changing career before permanent harm occurs.”
“Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.”
“Part of it is eight years of a black president, and white America still lost their [minds] about that. Part of it is a Republican politics of vicious, vicious partisan [stuff] that has completely poisoned what we would call the political rhetorical sphere. All of these things come together in a perfect storm.”
“Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.”
“Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.”
“Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself.”
“Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.”
“Part of knowing ourselves is also being able to accept who we are and to value ourselves regardless of our flaws. Accepting who we are allows us to value our worth without conditions or reservations.”
“Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, the agony we cannot feel, the death we look at like a cold abstraction. Each man has his Jew; it is the other.”