P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Poor purpose; perpetuates poverty .”
“Poor quality food was a feature of high altitude observatories.”
“Poor quality is remembered long after low prices are forgotten.”
“Poor Ramon.”
Source: The World Without Us
“Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to reaffirm what you know.”
“Poor Sasha."
"Not meant for these times," Ed said. They were both somehow cheered up by this conversation. "But he means well.”
Source: Our Country Friends
“Poor Sasha. Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of love. How badly they need it, and how little most of them will ever get. The treacled pop songs, the dresses described in the catalogs with words like 'sunset' and 'Paris.' Then the dreams are taken away with such violent force; the hand wrenching the buttons of the jeans, nobody looking at the man shouting at his girlfriend on the bus”
Source: The Girls
“Poor Sasha. Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of love. How badly they need it, and how little most of them will ever get. The treacled pop songs, the dresses described in the catalogs with words like "sunset" and "Paris." Then the dreams are taken away with such violent force; the hand wrenching the buttons of the jeans, nobody looking at the man shouting at his girlfriend on the bus. Sorrow for Sasha locked up my throat.”
Source: The Girls
“Poor self concept limits ones ability to take tasks and seize opportunities that are within ones capacity and potential because of the embodied self limiting beliefs one carries.”
“Poor sleepers should endeavor to compose themselves. Tampering with empty space, stirring up echoes in pitch-black pits of darkness is scarcely sedative.
("Out Of The Deep")”
Source: Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
“Poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't the right to give him one: he'll have to wait until he belongs to somebody. We just sort of took up by the river one day, we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I. I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together.”
“Poor soul - very sad; her late husband, you know, a very sad death - eaten by missionaries - poor soul.”
“Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.”
Source: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery
“Poor souls never get to see a better day.”
“Poor spending habits lead to poverty”
“Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.”
“Poor Terence. Poor, dear, gentle Terence. He had been searching for something all his life -he said as much himself- and he had never found it. And that thing, of course, was love, although he never saw it that way. He said that he was looking for enlightment, for beauty; he said that he was looking for the sacred principle that informed the world. And all the time he was looking for that simple thing that all of us look for; that we yearn for throughout our lives. Just to be loved. That was all.”
Source: Corduroy Mansions
“Poor the man who has earned millions and millions of rupees but has never tasted the meaning of true love.”
“Poor thieves in halters we behold;
And great thieves in their chains of gold.”
“Poor thing. I note I already feel affection for her, and I have the weirdest urge, on the one hand, to go and sit with her and tell her stories or read to her while she's on bed rest, while on the other hand I want to smother her with a pillow or give her a bunch of tranquilizers or sleeping pills so she gives me back the world, so it gets given back to me, the world and everything that has to do with it.”
Source: August
“Poor thing.
To die and never see Brooklyn.”
Source: Transformations
“Poor things! I know what sort of treatment they have had. If they are timid, it makes them start or shy; if they are high-mettled, it makes them vicious or dangerous; their tempers are mostly made when they are young. Bless you! they are like children, train 'em up in the way they should go, as the good book says, and when they are old they will not depart from it, if they have a chance, that is.”
Source: Black Beauty
“Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do.”
Source: Poems for children
“Poor to be content, rich to be grateful. Both must serve God.”
“Poor Tom's a cold”
“Poor Twatwaffle. Thank God all good llamas go to heaven.”
Source: Ashes to Ashes
“Poor ugly creature, how gladly he would have lived even with the ducks had they only given him encouragement.”
Source: The Ugly Duckling and Other Stories
“Poor Wales. So far from Heaven, so close to England.”
Source: Here Be Dragons
“Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn about either group.”
Source: I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It
“Poor whites and poor blacks have way more in common than poor whites and rich whites. But many poor whites hate poor blacks, and adore rich whites.”
Source: How to Defeat the Trump Cult: Want to Save Democracy? Share This Book
“Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man.”
“Poor whites had always had the comfort of knowing that someone was worse off and more despised than they were; racial subjugation was the ground under their feet, the rock they stood upon, even when their own situation was deteriorating. That slender assurance is shrinking.”
Source: Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
“Poor women suffer terrible sexual violence that goes unreported. Because of their social class, these women do not have access to therapy or other methods of healing. Their repeated abuse ultimately eats away at their self-esteem, driving them to drugs, prostitution, AIDS, and in many cases, death.”
Source: The Vagina Monologues
“Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.”
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson
“Poor wretches that depend
On greatness' favor, dream as I have done;
Wake, and find nothing.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Julius Cæser. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles
“Poor you, you have two cute girls vying for your love. Your life is hard.”
Source: City of Glass
“Poor Zora – she lived through footnotes.”
Source: On Beauty
“Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.”
“Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends.”
“Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!”
Source: Letters of Wallace Stevens
“Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!”
Source: Yesterdays in a Busy Life
“Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like everybody else. But he was too ugly! And he had to hide his genius or use it to play tricks with, when, with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar. Ah, yes, we must need pity the Opera ghost.”
Source: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Mystery & Horror Series): Gothic Classic Based on True Events at the Paris Opera
“Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's gilded son. Your father can't buy you a good frontside hack.”
“Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.”
Source: Picture of Dorian Gray
“Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.”
“Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.”
“Poorly functioning solar power systems were around when I worked in the field.”
“Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.”
“Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.”
Source: Change We Can Believe In
“Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.”
Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose