P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from sights, sounds, and events which passed as a perfect void to persons more practised with the world. As all is activity and vicissitude to the new mind of a child, so might it be, likewise, to a mind that had undergone a kind of new creation, after its longsuspended life.”
Source: The house of the seven gables
“Possibly I want to bring my acting into the cooking, blending the two together. What I love is cooking for other people and seeing them enjoy what I have created for them. And same thing goes for acting. I have even tried to make some Chinese dishes before. It's very difficult. That's probably why eating at authentic Chinese restaurants is part of my journey here.”
“Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.”
“Possibly, if we saw ourselves as the rest of the world does, we would stop being taken in by another manufactured scare story designed to manipulate us, and we'd actually have a chance of making much needed change in our own country.”
Source: The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Russia
“Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.”
Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
“Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war.”
“Possibly, she thought, the pool of answers was limited. There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now why that is so, I must tell you that there is no answer to that question.”
Source: The Storyteller
“Possibly the best suggestion in condensed form, as to how to live, was given by my old Headmaster, Dr. Haig Brown, in 1904, when he wrote his Recipe for Old Age. A diet moderate and spare, Freedom from base financial care, Abundant work and little leisure, A love of duty more than pleasure, An even and contented mind In charity with all mankind, Some thoughts too sacred for display In the broad light of common day, A peaceful home, a loving wife, Children, who are a crown of life; These lengthen out the years of man Beyond the Psalmist's narrow span.”
“Possibly the best thing about the whole experience is that Kang and I are now really good friends. It's as much of a pleasure and privilege to know her as a person as it is to translate her work. She's been over for two UK publicity tours, which means lots of time to chat on trains etc., and she was hear all last summer for a writer's residency in Norwich, where I got to meet her son too.”
“Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, taught a long time ago, company performance often results more from variations in systems than from the individuals doing the work.”
“Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had done so, we can scarcely imagine that He could have offered anything much better in the way of material.”
“Possibly the greatest failure is to be overrun by our failures, and yet somehow declare that the failures evidence the value of what we continue to fail at.”
“Possibly the greatest failure of all is to assert that our failures declare our value as being the same as that which we continue to fail at.”
“Possibly the greatest waste in life is the gap between what you are and what you could become.”
“Possibly the most beautiful way to love her is to love her slowly in the beginning and then love her all at once.”
“Possibly the most debilitating deception of all is to create a god of my own making, fool myself into believing that this limp god of mine is the true God, and then construct the entirety of my life on this flamboyantly fictional character. Possibly the most devastating realization of all is when the real God shows up, and in the showing up all of this come crashing down.”
“Possibly the most important thing you do is actually edit the team.”
“Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.”
“Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa, into the room, to soothe her, to love her. He came every night and sat with her. The first couple of times, he simply stayed - a stranger to kill the aloneness. A few nights after that, he whispered, "Shhh, I'm here, it's all right." After three weeks he held her. Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. The girl knew from the outset that Hans Hubermann would always appear midscream, and he would not leave. (36)”
“Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)”
“Possibly the only thing we Notekillers place on a higher pedestal than music is laughs, so, of course, we also know that the idea of the title is a kind of humorous futility.”
“Possibly the tragedy of the bicycle is that it was invented too close in time to the car. In the historical scheme, pedal power hardly got under way before the combustion engine appeared and, not only took over the roads, but changed our view of machines. We've forgotten that pedal power is a potent form of energy.”
“Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.”
“Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.”
“Possibly there are few imaginative writers who have not a leaning, secret or avowed, to the occult. The creative gift is in very close relationship with the Great Force behind the universe; for aught we know, may be an atom thereof. It is not strange, therefore, that the lesser and closer of the unseen forces should send their vibrations to it occasionally; or, at all events, that the imagination should incline its ear to the most mysterious and picturesque of all beliefs”
Source: The Bell in the Fog & Other Stories
“Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.”
“Possibly twilight makes blackness dangerous
Darkness. Probably all my encounters
Are existential jambalaya. Which is to say,
A nigga can survive. Something happened
In Sanford, something happened in Ferguson
And Brooklyn & Charleston, something happened
In Chicago & Cleveland & Baltimore & happens
Almost everywhere in this country every day.
Probably someone is prey in all of our encounters.
You won't admit it. The names alive are like the names
In graves.”
Source: American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
“Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work.”
Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].
“Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his own superiority.”
Source: A Room of One’s Own
“Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having been marginalized for three decades by the establishment media - have made their own, almost without effort. It's an alternative reality (unlike 'meat-space' we live in) in which - exactly like intelligence, bravery, or virtue - the human capacity for violence is not additive, and in which it's impossible to initiate force against anybody.”
“Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.”
Source: The Public Letters of John Bright
“Possibly, a crush is merely the attraction a person has for another person. Most relationships start with some sort of attraction. You see someone you like or you see things about a person you like and feel attracted to them. Many mistake this for love, but attraction is a powerful force.”
“Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.”
“Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.”
Source: The Philosopher's Pupil
“Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of homo sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained in this game can be fathomed instantly with a shrug and a smile. Then, not only will the game of chess have ceased to exist, but also will the remembrance of frequently missed objectives elicit pity, as a reaction to the shortcomings of a lower organized form of life.”
“Possibly. Basically,everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality.”
“Possibly. I know on set, they were talking about ‘oh, a sequel’ or something. That would be way down the road, because this one we just finished. So, [I’m] not even thinking about that again. But they could be thinking about it. That would be fun.”
“Possivelmente as questões mais importantes na inteligência artificial não são a conceção de novos algoritmos, mas como garantir que os conjuntos de dados com os quais os treinamos não sejam intrinsecamente distorcidos (…). As características dos dados de treino são muito mais importantes para o resultado do que o algoritmo. A incapacidade de compreender isso é em si mesma uma distorção que aqueles que estudaram profundamente a ciência computacional anterior à aprendizagem automática terão dificuldade em ultrapassar.”
Source: WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“Posso ate estar usando uma mascara,
Mas o sorriso fica estampado na cara!”
Source: Amor de Pierrot
“Posso até sufocar carbonizado mas arderei pelo que aderi de livre e espontânea vontade.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Posso chiederle una cosa?".
"Dica".
"Che studi ha fatto?". [...]
"Nessuno".
"A sentirla parlare - e gridare - non sembra".
"Ѐcosì, ho smesso dopo la quinta elementare".
"Perché?".
"Non avevo le capacità".
"Come l'ha capito?".
"Ce le aveva Greco, io no".
La Galiani scosse la testa in segno di dissenso, disse: "Se lei avesse studiato, sarebbe riuscita bene quanto Greco".
"Come fa a dirlo?".
"Ѐ il mio mestiere".
"Voi professori insistete tanto sullo studio perché con quello vi guadagnate il pane, ma studiare non serve a niente, e nemmeno migliora, anzi rende ancora più malvagi".
"Elena è diventata più malvagia?".
"No, lei no".
"Come mai?".
Lila ficcò in testa al figlio il cappellino di lana: "Abbiamo fatto un patto da piccole: quella malvagia sono io".”
Source: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“Posso dizer também que os detentos tinham chegado ao limite da dor. Eu só ouvia gemidos. Perto de mim tinha um afegão que estava chorando muito alto e pedindo ajuda ■■■■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ . Estava falando em árabe: “Senhor, como pôde fazer isso comigo? Por favor, aliviem minha dor, cavalheiros!”. Mas ninguém se deu sequer ao trabalho de examiná-lo. O sujeito estava mal já em Bagram. Eu o tinha visto na cela ao lado da nossa; ele vomitava o tempo todo. Senti tanta pena dele. Ao mesmo tempo, eu ria. Dá para acreditar nisso, eu ria estupidamente! Não dele; eu ria da situação. Primeiro, ele se dirigiu a eles em árabe, que nenhum guarda entendia. Depois, ele os chamou de cavalheiros, o que eles certamente não eram.”
Source: Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition
“Posso farti i dispetti, tirarti i capelli, gridare e cantare, se mi va, e suonare la vecchia spinetta. Divido il letto con te e al mattino, quando mi sveglio, faccio un profondo respiro e penso a cose importanti.”
Source: Ross Poldark
“Posso não mudar o mundo. Mas o que faço é para compensar o estrago que pessoas como você vão fazer.”
Source: Uma História de Verão
“Posso scegliere fra essere una vittima del mondo o un'avventuriera in cerca del suo tesoro. È semplicemente una questione riguardo al modo in cui affronterò la mia vita.”
Source: Eleven Minutes
“Posso vivere sola, se il rispetto per me stessa e le circostanze me lo richiederanno. Non mi è necessario vendere l’anima per comprare la felicità. Ho un tesoro interiore, nato insieme a me, che può mantenermi viva anche se tutti i piaceri esterni mi verranno negati; o offerti ad un prezzo che non potrò accettare.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“Possono i sogni raccontare bugie?”
“Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.”
“Post 9/11, we've seen such disastrous policies on the border. I live two and a half hours away from the border, and I've seen changes for the communities there. I feel like it's an occupied zone. We're losing our rights, and both sides of the border are terrified. The Mexican population and the U.S. population are united in fear.”
“Post-apocalyptic world will never unfold like in the movies, the post-apocalyptic world already exists, may be not for you, as you're born on the lucky side of privilege - but that world of drought, flood, famine, plague and persecution already exists - ten steps from the door of the privileged.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience