P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Poor Al Gore, global warming completely debunked, via the very Internet you invented.”
“Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soulless army of human prey.”
“Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.”
Source: Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal
“Poor and content is rich, and rich enough;
But riches fineless is as poor as winter
To him that ever fears he shall be poor;–
Good heaven, the souls of all my tribe defend
From jealousy!”
Source: Othello
“Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.”
“Poor and content, is rich and rich enough; But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, To him that ever fears he shall be poor.”
“Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.”
Source: Notebooks, 1942-1951
“Poor and most middle-class people believe "If I have a lot of money, I could do what I want and I'd be a success." Rich people understand, "If I become a successful person, I will be able to do what I need to do to have what I want, including a lot of money."”
“Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.”
“Poor are those who have eyes but cannot see... ☥”
Source: Kemet - The Year of Revelation
“Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.”
“Poor bastard, I thought, listening to him. He’s trying to hide from us. He’s dying, and he knows we want to kill him. What a fate: to gasp your life out all alone in the mud of a dirty little creek, helpless to hold off the slow death that is inside you and the quicker death that is walking up on you on the other side of the water. A death without love, a death without hope. God, who invented war?
But if he gets back alive, I may be dead.”
Source: Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich
“Poor bastard wouldn't know a spice if it drew steel on him.”
Source: Paladin's Faith
“Poor black families were “immersed in a domestic web of a large number of kin and friends whom they [could] count on,” wrote the anthropologist Carol Stack in All Our Kin. Those entwined in such a web swapped goods and services on a daily basis. This did little to lift families out of poverty, but it was enough to keep them afloat. But large-scale social transformations—the crack epidemic, the rise of the black middle class, and the prison boom among them—had frayed the family safety net in poor communities. So had state policies like Aid to Families with Dependent Children that sought to limit “kin dependence” by giving mothers who lived alone or with unrelated roommates a larger stipend than those who lived with relatives.”
Source: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you”
Source: Drum Taps
“Poor boy. To have your trust and innocence so cruelly abused.
Welcome to the real world, sonny.
Suck it up, kiddo. That's what Happens when you sell yourself for money.”
Source: X-Treme X-Men Omnibus, Vol. 1
“Poor boys are easier than middle-class or rich ones. Boys who've been busted are easier than boys who have not. Southern boys are easier than Northern boys. Marines are easier than Masturbation.”
Source: Puppies
“Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.”
Source: Timebends: A Life
“Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.”
“Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.”
“Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could be victorious than the absolutely correct one.”
“poor cash planning leads to a loss of investment.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.”
“Poor children live in a particularly dangerous world--an urban world of broken stair railings, of busy streets serving as playgrounds, of lead paint, rats and rat poisons, or a rural world where families do not enjoy the minimal levels of public health accepted as standard for nearly a century. Whether in city or country, this is a world where cavities go unfilled and ear infections threatening permanent deafness go untreated. It is world where even a small child learns to be ashamed of the way he or she lives.”
Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure
“Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, but as in everything else, Christopher John tried to see the bright side in having to face such a shrew every morning. "Maybe she done changed," he said hopefully on the first day of school. However, when classes were over he was noticeably quiet. Well?" I asked him. He shrugged dejectedly and admitted, "She still the same.”
“Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared
Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home”
Source: Collected Poems
“Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.”
“Poor communities, frequently communities of color but not exclusively, suffer disproportionately. If you look at where our industrialized facilities tend to be located, they're not in the upper middle class neighborhoods.”
“Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.”
Source: The Uncalled (EasyRead Large Edition)
“Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“Poor Cook, thought Captain, I must be kinder to her. She makes a splendid pet. How faithful she is! I always say you can't get the same love from a dog that you can from a human. So clever, too. I believe she understands every word I say. I believe they have souls, just like dogs. It's uncanny how canine a human can be, if you are kind to them and treat them well. I know for a fact that when some dogs in history died, their humans lay down on the grave and howled all night and refused food and pined away. It was just instinct, of course, not real intelligence, but all the same it makes you think. I believe that when a human does, it goes to a special heaven for humans, with kind dogs to look after it.”
“Poor countries are being forced to deal with an unprecedented health crisis without the means to tackle it . Governments can only show how seriously they are taking this crisis by taking immediate action to provide four million extra health workers and to grant those in need access to affordable medicines.”
“Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.”
“Poor cow, you'll get your dumb man. You'll see your whole life coming at you in the back of his hand.”
“Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?”
Source: Never Let Me Go
“Poor customer service is the fertilizer that grows corrupt police officers!”
“Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.”
“Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.”
“Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead.
Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief
Shore his old thread in twain.”
Source: Othello
“Poor devil! None of us can have the remotest idea of the agony it is to be despised and rejected of men. A cancer in the soul and then madness. The feeling of there being a curtain, more invisible than gauze, stronger than iron, between one’s self and one’s fellow man. To cry out of the abyss and to know that there will be no answer, that one is buried alive.”
Source: A Question of Proof
“Poor diet combined with high altitude exposures may bring increased risks of illnesses and cancers.”
“Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Poor doesn’t matter as much if you can make a place for yourself and be respected.”
Source: Parable of the Talents
“Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to 'em because they couldn't. I can't help being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there's no need. But they may well have more in them than they know how to make us understand, for we can't say half what we feel, with all our words.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.”
“Poor, dull Vos, writhing in his adoration, might as well have fallen in love with the moon itself. [...]”
Source: The Devil and the Dark Water
“Poor dusky children of slavery, men and women of my own race-the transition from slavery to freedom was too sudden for you! The bright dreams were too rudely dispelled; you were not prepared for the new life that opened before you, and the great masses of the North learned to look upon your helplessness with indifference-learned to speak of you as an idle, dependent race. Reason should have prompted kinder thoughts. Charity is ever kind.”
Source: Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
“Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.”
“Poor eating habits developed at an early age lead to a lifetime of real health consequences.”
“Poor Elly, he thought, as he fell. It’s so much harder to be left behind.”
Source: In Memoriam