P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Poor England! thou art a devoted deer,
Beset with every ill but that of fear.
The nations hunt; all mock thee for a prey;
They swarm around thee, and thou stand'st at bay.”
“Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes- well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and a lifting of the eyes and the American reaction simply one of amused contempt.”
“Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the market. 24 Our cities have become unaffordable to our poorest families, and this problem is leaving a deep and jagged scar on the next generation.”
Source: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“Poor Father, I see his final exploration. He arrives at the new place, his hair risen in astonishment, his mouth and eyes dumb. His toe scuffs a soft storm of sand, he kneels and his arms spread in pantomimic celebration, the immigrant, as in every moment of his life, arriving eternally on the shore of his Self.”
Source: Ragtime
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
“Poor feeling hijacks thinking for self-deception: to hide harsh truths, avoid action, evade responsibility, and, as the existentialists might put it, flee from freedom. Thus, poor feeling is a kind of moral failing, indeed, the deepest kind, and virtue principally consists in correcting and refining our emotions and the values that they reflect. To feel the right thing is to do the right thing, without any particular need for conscious thought or effort.”
Source: Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of the Emotions
“Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.”
Source: Middlemarch
“Poor fellow, he suffers from files.”
“Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say.
"It must be. The sensation is completely new. How have you managed it all these years?" he asks.
"Just avoid mirrors. You'll forget about it," I say.”
Source: Mockingjay
“Poor firms ignore their competitors; average firms copy their competitors; winning firms lead their competitors.”
Source: Marketing management in China
“Poor fish of Rodondo! in your victimized confidence, you are of the number of those who inconsiderately trust, while they do not understand, human nature.”
Source: Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories
“Poor Florida!”
“Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.”
Source: THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel
“Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling.”
“Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me.”
Source: Life and Adventures of Audubon the Naturalist
“Poor Fred - he's actually working on a typo, and somebody ought to tell him. Twice in the New Testament Jesus withered fig trees, Isaiah withered a fig tree, and there's another place in the Old Testament - I think it-s in Psalms - where a fig tree was withered. God hates figs, not fags!”
“Poor gentleman," said Mr Segundus. "Perhaps it is the age. It is not an age for magic or scholarship, is it sir? Tradesmen prosper, sailors, politicians, but not magicians. Our time is past.”
Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.”
“Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.”
“Poor girl," I said, letting my eyes lock with hers for a moment before turning to face Cin again, weaving my hand possessively around his waist. "This is probably the first time she's ever seen anyone having fun before. I suppose we shouldn't blame her for being jealous.”
Source: Fire
“Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the
world. It's like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.”
“Poor goddamned rummies,' Marie said. 'I pity a rummy.'
'He's a lucky rummy.'
'There ain't any lucky rummies,' Marie said. 'You know that, Harry.'
'No,' I said. 'I guess there aren't.”
Source: To Have and Have Not
“Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming...I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.”
“Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.”
“Poor Harper Seven Beckham, having to live with that name all her life. It's the Boy Named Sue syndrome; at the very least it will toughen her up.”
“Poor have always remained one level below than the rich. When poor people traveled on foot, rich rode horses. When poor rode on horses, rich used carts and chariots. When poor were using carts, rich were using motors. When poor used motors, rich used trains. Now when poor are able to travel in trains, rich fly.”
Source: S
“Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.”
Source: The Monkey Wrench Gang
“Poor health is not caused by something you don't have; it's caused by disturbing something that you already have. Health is not something you need to get, it's something you have already if you don't disturb it.”
“Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.”
“Poor Hollywood! These things happen all over the world but what a great backdrop to have Hollywood in our movie. No, but I know people who divorce a lot....and have really nice houses. But I didn't model the character on anyone in particular. And if I did, I would never tell the name.”
“Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or excitement must be paid for by subsequent depressions. While the trial lasts, the strength is equal to the emergency; but when it is over, natural weakness claims the right to show itself.”
Source: Lectures to My Students
“Poor human nature cannot do everything; and kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable, yet not kind; merciful, yet not kind; self-denying, yet not kind. If they would add a little common kindness to their uncommon graces, they would convert ten where they now only abate the prejudice of one.”
“Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!”
Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections
“Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them.”
“Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature.”
Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections
“Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts”
“Poor human weakness! With your words, your languages, your sounds, you speak and stammer—you define God, the heaven and the earth, chemistry and philosophy, and you cannot express, with your language, all the joy that you derive from a naked woman—or a plum pudding.”
Source: Memoirs of a Madman and November
“Poor human! Your dreams are too long, but your life is too short! That's why you always die with unfinished or never started dreams! Poor human!”
“Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.”
“Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves, what festering sores for us, what tears for our prosperity! This is not piety, this oft-repeated show of bowing a veiled head before a graven image; this bustling to every altar; this kow-towing and prostration on the ground with palms outspread before the shrines of the gods; this deluging of vow on vow. True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.”
“Poor humans; they will all die.""Poor us; we will not.”
Source: The Tor sf sampler: featuring excerpts from the 1993 Nebula and Hugo nominees : A fire upon the deep by Vernor Vinge and China mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
“Poor in abundance, famish'd at a feast.”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!”
“Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.”
Source: Nigger
“Poor is a state of mind. Broke is a state of wallet. You can fix being broke; it's not so easy to fix being poor.”
“Poor is a state of mind. Broke is, 'I'm just passing through.'”
“Poor is not the one who has no money, poor is the one who has no purpose.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“Poor is the man who desires a lot”
“Poor is the man whom is not content with what he has.”