P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Part of Krishna consciousness is trying to tune in all the senses of all the people: to experience God through all the senses, not just by experiencing Him on Sunday, through your knees by kneeling on some hard wooden kneeler in the church.”
“Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.”
“Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.”
Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
“Part of life after a failed relationship is respecting your family’s right to maintain a friendship with your unfaithful ex.”
“Part of life and part of the enjoyment of life is a croissant and a chocolate cake and eggs and milkshakes and oatmeal. There's so many things, you have to learn to appreciate it all. When I don't eat as much as I should, I'm not fun to be around; I'm fussy.”
“Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so often. Over the ensuing years that person we thought understood us best ends up regarding us with pity, indifference, or active dislike. Those who truly care can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive our worst sins. Rarely do we find someone capable of both.”
Source: Glass Soup
“Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of.”
“Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.”
“Part of living into postures that nurture a deep reliance on God's leading is that no good tool is tossed out of the toolbox. But if you've come from such a dominant paradigm that you always find yourself reaching for the same tool regardless of the situation, you may need to leave that tool alone as you learn to listen and follow and make use of the right tool in the right situation.”
Source: Generous Spaciousness: Responding to Gay Christians in the Church
“Part of living is understanding where the fringes are. Once you know how far people go, you can say, "Well, here's how I choose to represent myself."”
“Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.”
“Part of living, part of becoming a wise man or a wise woman, is to get to that point where you can have a friend for whom you are genuinely happy when he or she has a success. That's tough. Very few people get to that point. With writers it's next to impossible. You can't really bless a writer who's as good as yourself.”
“Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be”
Source: Boy Meets Boy
“Part of loving kids is laying down fencelines. They need to know immediately when they've crossed a line; otherwise the lesson doesn't get learned.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Part of Magee’s disease comes from the long term damage that oxygen starvation, industrial gas and unnatural radiation exposures cause to the brain, heart, lungs, skin, blood, hormones and gastrointestinal tract.”
“Part of maintaining a thriving creative culture is giving people time and permission to play.”
“Part of making a good decision is just making a decision. You can't always sit and weigh the pros and cons. There just isn't time for that. Making a good decision means sticking with your choice and dealing with what comes with it. Being able to deal with the consequences—that's making a good decision.”
“Part of making good decisions in business is recognizing the poor decisions you've made and why they were poor. I've made lots of mistakes. I'm going to make more. It's the name of the game. You don't want to expect perfection in yourself. You want to strive to do your best. It's too demanding to expect perfection in yourself.”
“Part of making life what you wish it to be is eliminating the unnecessary and the undesirable.”
Source: Life Is Simply A Game
“Part of maturing as a designer is discovering what you're good at.”
“Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable, but her story and mine are different now. It wasn't easy for me to accept this simple truth, because there was a time when our stories were the same, but that was six years and two lifetimes ago.”
Source: Dear John
“Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.”
“Part of me, Adventurous Mia, Brave Mia, F.O.U.N.D. Field Department Poster Girl Mia wants to leave immediately-right-now to get this done and over with, rip it off like a Band-Aid. The other part of me, Scared Teenage Soon-to-be-Senior Mia doesn’t know what she wants. She sure as hell doesn’t want to run headfirst into a mess bigger than anything she’s ever faced in her entire life, but she also loves Dave. Both of the Mias do. They would do anything for him. I would do anything for him, even if it means dying to try to protect him. That’s what scares me the most.”
Source: L.O.S.T. and F.O.U.N.D.
“Part of me also knows that this generation is the least racist and most pro-gay, so that's great. But they have a real lack of gravitas. And they have no taste in music. Vampire Weekend? Can we play some music, please? Can we rock out for a minute? Where's your Metallica?”
“Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.”
“Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.”
Source: Dry: A Memoir
“Part of me believes that the completed record is the final measure of a pop musician's accomplishment, just as the completed film is the final measure of a film artist's accomplishments.”
“Part of me can't understand how Mom could do this. But there's that other part of me that can readily relate. Because I feel a pull in two different directions too.”
Source: Destiny Rising
“Part of me could do it. Run off and get married. But another part... Another part of me wondered if I could really trust anyone. If all relationships were all doomed.”
Source: Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have)
“Part of me didn't know if Australia wanted its champion to be gay.”
“Part of me doesn't even know if we're together. I mean, we are-she likes me, and I want to run off to Mexico with her. So yeah, that's together, right?
I guess I don't need a ring or anything.”
Source: Temptation
“Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.”
“Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My art, without denying 'repression,' is a testimony to unspoken female power and the continuing protest in Islamic culture.”
“Part of me hated technology, because to me technology was a mother fucker that was eating this world alive. It was all part of the machine, the deadening of the human spirit, and I wouldn’t allow it. I had to see the world for what it was, drain it of all its illusion, because what lingered beneath? The wild, untamed beast, and in the end it would eat us all. That was something nobody could stop, not with any amount of money, or material things. Nothing that was part of physical reality could prevent death. So, to me, people were absurd, robotic, already dead. Buying fancy cars, big homes, the latest electronics, and all for what? The excuse was convenience. I need this. It makes things easier. Yet, while comfort may have been at the surface, the real thirst for these things, for material possessions, was to feel in control, and to feel part of.”
“Part of me is a sexual exhibitionist.”
“Part of me is afraid that everyone will laugh, that I’m a caricature of myself.”
Source: Sister Mischief
“Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.”
“Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.”
“Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.”
“Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.”
“Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.”
“Part of me knows one more day won't do anything except postpone the heartbreak. But another part of me believes differently. We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.”
“Part of me knows that prayer is essential; another part of me would rather turn on the TV and check out. And that whole bit about being long-suffering-no way. Part of me wants to just get drunk.”
Source: Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive
“Part of me likes a more ragged, jagged guitar sound or performance, but our work might not have been as innovative had we followed in the footsteps of what came before. We were very proud of what we had hit on.”
“Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage.”
“Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.”
“Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.”
“Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You have to teach them the very basics of emotional literacy. You have to teach them how to be there for you, and part of me feels tender toward them and gentle, and part of me is so afraid of them, afraid of any more violation.”
Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
“Part of me misses the days when we have four channels in England and we were all talking about everything all the time.”
“Part of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don't have to embrace it. It would be sentimental and silly to say that we all need it, but it is absolutely available to all of us.”