P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others. Remember this, if you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing!”
Source: The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.”
“Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.”
“Poor is the manifestation of the absence of communication.”
“Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.”
“Poor is the new black.”
“Poor is the new black. So on this film [The Land], there are poor black people, but there are also poor Latinos, and poor white people as well.”
“Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.”
“Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.”
Source: Notebooks
“Poor [Jack Kerouac], his day is so sorrowful and worried, his reasons are so ephemeral, it's such a haunted and pitiful thing to have to live.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.”
“Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.”
“Poor kid, thought Simon. Would I be in that hidden anguish were it not for Daniel?”
Source: The Clouds Still Hang
“Poor kid,' Jenna says, and rolls her eyes toward me for a moment. Then she returns to her book. 'She doesn't even understand what kind of place this is.”
Source: Wither
“Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk about a double whammy.”
“Poor kids, through no fault of their own, are less prepared by their families, their schools, and their communities to develop their God-given talents as fully as rich kids. For economic productivity and growth, our country needs as much talent as we can find, and we certainly can’t afford to waste it. The opportunity gap imposes on all of us both real costs and what economists term “opportunity costs.”
Source: Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
“Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.”
“Poor lass,” he growls devilishly from behind me as he digs his nails into my hips, pounding into me with a crazed mania. “There won’t be a day where I won’t fuck you like this from now on out.”
I curse and scream, but he doesn’t relent, not even for a second. “But don’t worry. I’ll kiss away the pain each time I’m done with you.”
Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
“Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey.”
“Poor little Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan... If those little girls slept with as many men as they say in the tabloids, why their little butts would have more fingerprints than the FBI! I kinda feel sorry for them. We should give those two a break.”
“Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Poor little fox, all fuzzy and annoyed.”
Source: Elves of Fate: Denial
“Poor little girl. Poor little girl," Nan says, and at first I think she is speaking of the baby, perhaps it is a girl after all. But then I realize she is speaking of me, a girl of thirteen years, whose own mother has said that they can let her die as long as a son and heir is born.”
Source: The Red Queen
“Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!”
“Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.”
“Poor little sparrow,” he whispered, almost tenderly. “It only hurts because I want you so much.”
Source: Raise the Blood
“Poor little Una," said the Dragon. "You are heartless now, aren't you? No better than a dragon yourself.”
Source: Heartless
“Poor little wife," he murmured, cupping his hands over her bottom and urging her hard against his body. "I haven't done well by you, if you've been left so unsatisfied you had to come looking for me." He nibbled at the tender spot just beneath her ear. "I'll just have to work harder to keep up with your appetite."
"Derek," she protested, her hands working aimlessly over his shoulders as he kissed her again. Her heart began to race, and she couldn't suppress a little moan of pleasure. "I-I was just concerned that you wouldn't have enough sleep for the night."
He strung a necklace of kisses around her throat. "You were right about that. I won't. And neither will you."
"I'll never take you away from a game again," she said, feeling the need to apologize. "I didn't mean to disrupt your evening-"
"I'm glad you did," Derek murmured. He grinned as he stared into her soft blue eyes. "Any time you want me, Mrs. Craven... I'm at your service.”
Source: Dreaming of You
“Poor Lucas, always trying to protect me from danger. He’d never guessed that I was the dangerous one.”
“Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.”
“Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.”
“Poor man! You have many burdens on you: The burdens of your religion, of your culture, of your ignorance, of your oppressive government! Find a wild horse and watch it! You will see what is to be unburdened and free!”
“Poor man. Poor mankind.”
Source: Bear, man, and God: eight approaches to William Faulkner's The bear
“Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.”
“Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs.”
“Poor Martin. Geek or no, committing his soul to eternal damnation was a helluva price to pay for six minutes.”
Source: Succubus Blues
“Poor Mary Ann! She gave the guy an inch and now he thinks he's a ruler.”
“Poor me, poor me, pour me another.”
“Poor means when we lack things in our lives. There are two types of poverty. ...those that need food and shelter and those that need God in their lives. We are called to service to help both group of people as much as we can.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“Poor Melania Trump.”
“Poor men have become men of wealth,
He who could not afford sandals owns riches.”
Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States.”
“Poor migrants may seem an odd target for a kidnapping. Surely they have no money. That is why they risk their lives migrating. But even poor people have relatives with savings, and the Zetas can often get $2,000 from kidnapping migrants. If you multiply that by ten thousand, you get $20 million—truly kidnapping en masse.”
Source: El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
“Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.”
“Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas”
“Poor Mom.
Doesn't she know that Dad's unbeatable too?”
Source: Ten Thousand Tries
“Poor motivation and alertness cause complacency”
“Poor Mr. Smith, having been so rudely dragged from his high horse, was never able to mount it again, and completed the lecture in a manner not at all comfortable to himself.”
Source: Framley parsonage
“Poor Mr. Pickwick! ... If he played a wrong card, Miss Bolo looked a small armoury of daggers; if he stopped to consider which was the right one, Lady Snuphanuph would throw herself back in her chair, and smile with a mingled glance of impatience and pity to Mrs. Colonel Wugsby, at which Mrs. Colonel Wugsby would shrug up her shoulders, and cough, as much as to say she wondered whether he ever would begin.”
Source: THE GREATEST DICKENS CLASSICS (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens
“Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.”
Source: Gulliver's Travels