P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.”
“Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.”
“Portability should be the default.”
“Portable designs have the power to transform unused public spaces into dynamic environments that build and invite communal experiences.”
“Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.”
“Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. It takes about a half an hour. The problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis.”
“Portals of divinity are everywhere. I believe that children may enter these divine portals easier, because they are seeking for answers in the purest way.”
“Portanto, a discriminação não é apenas socialmente condenável, é também ilegal.”
Source: Preconceito e Discriminação em Portugal
“Portanto, armai-vos com doce paciência e recriai-vos na fé, que é a carne do Senhor, e no amor, que é o sangue de Jesus Cristo.”
Source: Patrística - Padres Apostólicos
“Portanto, todo serviço que, aparentemente, é feito para Deus, mas, no íntimo, visa ao benefício pessoal, não passa de “largos filactérios” e de “longas franjas”, ou seja, são atos farisaicos que trarão terrível condenação, se não houver o arrependimento da pessoa.”
Source: O ouro e o altar: Uma revelação que vai abrir os olhos dos servos de Deus
“Portekizcede ‘saudade’ diye bir kelime vardır: Artık kaybolmaya başlamış, nadirleşmiş veyahut tamamen kaybedilmiş bir şeyi ya da bir kişiyi derinden özleme hissi demektir bu... Osmanlıcada ve günümüz Türkçesindeyse, ‘saudade’ kelimesini anımsatan, Arapça kökenli bir kelime bulunur: Süveyda. Tasavvufta, ‘kalbin tam ortasında, gizli günahlarımızın saklı durduğuna inanılan, küçük, kara nokta’ demektir süveyda... İşte, bu kara nokta, mazinin kalpte yarattığı sarsıntılarla büyümeyi bir hayli sever... Aşkla bağlandıklarını, –aşkla bağlandıkların yanında olsalar da olmasalar da– kalbindeki süveyda sarsıldığı için, bir gün, durup dururken, gümbür gümbür bir pişmanlıkla, daha önceleri hiç özlemediğin kadar şiddetli özlersin...”
Source: Babam Beni Şahdamarımdan Öptü
“Porter Rockwell was that most terrible instrument that can be handled by fanaticism; a powerful physical nature welded to a mind of very narrow perceptions, intense convictions, and changeless tenacity. In his build he was a gladiator; in his humor a Yankee lumberman; in his memory a Bourbon; in his vengeance an Indian. A strange mixture, only to be found on the American continent”
Source: The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon Principle
“Portfolio resilience protects assets from loss.”
“Portfolios are everything, promises are nothing. Do the work.”
“Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword... D'Artagnan: The mighty who? Porthos: Don't tell me you've never heard of me. D'Artagnan: The world's biggest windbag? Porthos: Little pimple... meet me behind the Luxembourg at 1 o'clock and bring a long wooden box. D'Artagnan: Bring your own... Porthos: [laughs]”
“Portia and I have been married for 4 years and they have been the happiest of my life. And in those 4 years, I don't think we hurt anyone else's marriage. I asked all of my neighbors and they say they're fine”
“Portia gasped awake with the taste of apples in her mouth- crisp green apples smothered in brown sugar and spice. She needed to bake.
Lying tangled in the sheets, she tried to calm her racing heart. She tried to write off this urge, too. It was nothing more than a knee-jerk reaction to moving to the Big Apple. But no matter how forcefully she told herself she had stuffed the knowledge back down, she realized that she hadn't. Not really. When she would have smelled bleach and sundries cotton, it was the scent of apples and buttery caramel that swirled in her mind.
The urges to bake and cook were getting stronger, the knowing coming back to life like simple syrup spun into cotton candy.”
Source: The Glass Kitchen
“Portia was affected differently. She felt very quiet with happiness
"Oh, I just hope and pray," she said.
And Mrs. Cheever walking lightly beside her, said: "Well, I have a feeling, Portia, I have a feeling in my bones that your wish is going to come true."
"Do you, Aunt Minnehaha? Honestly? Cross your heart?"
"I cross my heart," said Mrs. Cheever. "Yes, indeed I do.”
Source: Gone-Away Lake
“Portland and Chicago will outlive him.”
Source: American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America
“Portland can put the champagne away and get out the bottled water, 'cause that's all they're gonna drink on their way home!”
“Portland could have been any city. Port Clyde was too uncluttered to be anything else. There is a reason Stephen King sets his stories in little Maine towns. They are too quiet to be believed wholly savory.”
Source: Holidays with Bigfoot
“Portland has influenced me in that it is very much where I feel most "at home" in the world. I grew up there. My family is there, my closest friends are there; my favorite bookstore, record store and coffee joint are there. Portland changed a lot during the eight years I lived in Bellingham but, every time I went back, it always felt like home.”
“Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.”
“Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.”
“Portland is a pretty magnificent place to live.”
“Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast, because in California, a $1000 pair of shoes ends up costing another $100.”
“Portland is often trumpeted as being one of America's coolest, hippest cities. I've been to Portland many times, and I'm always like, "Yeah it's cool and hip, but also, where are all the black people? Why is this city so cool and hip, and also keeping the black people away?"”
“Portland is where young people go to retire.”
“Portland, Maine was the site of one of the northernmost skirmishes of the Civil War! Called the Battle of Portland Harbor, it happened in the waters off Portland harbor involving two ships flying the Confederate flag. On June 24, 1863, having been attacked by these ships, the Union Revenue Cutter Cushing was abandoned by her twenty-four crewmen. Captain Charles Reed a Confederate Navy Lieutenant Reed and the Captain of the Confederate raider, the CSS Tacony, ordered the Cushing torched, causing its munitions to explode. Late on June 26, 1863, Reed and an armed party came ashore dressed as fishermen and raided the city. Knowing that there was no chance of escaping, Captain Reed and his raiding party surrendered to Mayor McLellan and were held as prisoners of war at Fort Preble in South Portland. Because public sentiments were hostile against Reed and his men, they were taken to Boston and held at Fort Warren for the remainder of the Civil War.”
“Portland's commitment to a daring, perfectionist hedonism is still the city's strongest culinary unifier. At Hat Yai, the casual southern-Thai restaurant from local empire-builder Ninsom, fried chicken comes as a set with curry and roti, and its thin, spiced crust shatters over meat seasoned to the bone. At the newly opened Yonder, chef Maya Lovelace's counter-service ode to her North Carolina's childhood, the spicy, tender fried catfish demanded not just enjoyment but gluttony. Dinner at Naomi Pomeroy's Beast on Tuesday nights is a throwback four-course menu meant to evoke its supper club origins, serving utterly of-the-moment morel and asparagus pastas and a hunter's chicken made with last summer's preserved tomatoes. The 19-course tasting menu at Erizo, run by Eater Young Gun Jacob Harth, ends with a massive halibut collar and a raft of Parker House rolls. It's sort of useless to consider whether any of these meals are Honest, but you can't deny they are Good.”
Source: The Best American Food Writing 2020: A Literary Collection of Essays Celebrating Food, Culture, and the Stories Shaping Our Culinary World
“Portland was a dream both in the literal sense and the metaphorical sense, both tangible and not - a fleeting affair you want to hold on to but can't, so you try memorizing her every detail only to fail to do so in the consumption, in the savoring, in the absorbing of yourself into her. When she's gone, she comes to you in snippets, replaying in your mind like a fragmented picture show.”
“Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.”
“Portnoy's Complaint' was very far out there, and movies have always worked when you have either a funny situation between two or more people or a very dramatic situation. There's not that much difference.”
“Portofino in the '60s was magic. Women in bright silk, each with a gardenia in their hand. The bottle started then, in my mind.”
“Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.”
“Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and about the surrounding country; the taste strengthening as my successes became greater in proportion to the failures.”
“Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.”
“Portrait
True
beauty is hidden
in the fringes
of softness.
Something
which summons you
to experience
but not
to possess.”
Source: I Will Be Silent
“Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.”
“Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.”
“Portraits in gilded frames shaped the world...”
“Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized over the centuries, as well as lively and authoritative commentaries by some of today's leading neuroscientists. It will be enjoyed by professionals and general readers alike.”
“Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at human beings than a bowl of fruit.”
“Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.”
“Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.”
“Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth.”
“Portray your product as average and that's all that it will ever be.”
“Portrayals and perceptions are only one in the same to the actor himself.”
“Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.”