P Quotes
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“Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.”
“Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.”
“Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.”
“Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.”
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection
“Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.”
“Particularly fine is the top-heavy comedienne, Loni Anderson, as the receptionist whose movements turn men to stone...she keeps her head while all the men around her are losing theirs.”
“Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.”
“Particularly for women, I think more of us in the industry need to just do it. I think guys are more willing to put themselves out, that way, at least with the girls that I know. We say we want to direct, but then we don't actually do it.”
“Particularly from a German perspective, from a European perspective, I can only say again, Russia is our neighbor.”
“Particularly here in the United States there is a lack of comprehension about anything to do with the United Nations.”
“Particularly in my early days, I did very little rewriting.”
“Particularly in periods of crisis, governments have the obligation to lead by good example! Instead, many in Europe are confronting this global challenge with a penny-pinching mentality that drives me crazy.”
“Particularly in relationship to my father - there's something that daughters, girl children, do almost instinctually in their relationships with their father, so that physically, those boundaries must be respected and never crossed.”
“Particularly in the final season [of Fringe], when we were shooting seven-day episodes with a reduced budget and big special effects, the team was so polished, by then, that we were able to do it and, I think, with incredible results.”
“Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting”
Source: Satyajit Ray: Interviews
“Particularly marijuana, I think is a great hypocrisy. I think frankly it contributes to a good deal of the sense of unfairness you have among younger people who are told they shouldn't do this because it’s got all these negative effects, but then older people are engaging in all kinds of things that probably have a greater impact on people.”
“Particularly nauseous were the blank expressionless faces of people in trains and omnibuses; they seemed no more my fellow-creatures than dead bodies would be, so that I did not dare to travel unless I was assured of being alone.”
Source: The Island of Dr. Moreau
“Particularly on social media, there is that level of detachment, some people feel like they can say whatever pops in their head .”
“Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“Particularly when I thought of myself as a Wallace Stevens acolyte, I wrote very difficult poetry and I was really guilty of not knowing what I was talking about. I was going for a kind of clever verbal effect. I was trying to sound linguistically or verbally interesting. I had a sense, I guess, from just reading a lot of poetry of how a poem would start and how it would end but really I didn't know what I was doing. It had very little connection to my life.”
“Particularly when the war power is invoked to do things to the liberties of people, or to their property or economy that only indirectly affect conduct of the war and do not relate to the engagement of the war itself, the constitutional basis should be scrutinized with care. ... I would not be willing to hold that war powers may be indefinitely prolonged merely by keeping legally alive a state of war that had in fact ended. I cannot accept the argument that war powers last as long as the effects and consequences of war for if so they are permanent -- as permanent as the war debts.”
“Particularly when we are a country where leaders turn over every few years and - I mean, in Russia, Vladimir Putin has been in charge for 17 years and counting, right? That`s a disadvantage for us in terms of knowing the players, having a long-term plan, right?”
“Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes of the two by four to get its attention.”
“Particularly with live TV, I have a really good time reacting in the moment to things that are going on around me. I try to think of the viewers' perspective too.”
“Particularly with MFA students, who have so much invested - literally and figuratively - I feel like honest criticism is something they're owed. It's not going to be easier in the real world, surely.”
“Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.”
“Particularly with schizophrenia you see a lot of concern that these people could escape and kill people, or they could threaten our political order.”
“Particularly with the plays I choose, they're good parts, and they're parts that have been around long before a bad actor played them, and will be around long after I play them. Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.”
“Particularly, in my situation, I needed a way out of where I was. So music was that.”
“Particularly, the actors, to have analyzed the script in great detail from the point of view of their specific character. So that they have a handle on exactly where the character is in the chronology of things. In that sense the actors become your best check on the logic of the piece, and the way in which it all fits together. They become essential collaborators. The main thing is you have to work with very smart actors.”
“Parties and political systems used to be about excluding renegades who would never play well with others in government. Now it's actually systematically screening them in.”
“Parties are a cruel kind of fun.”
Source: Plays Four
“Parties are intended to be celebrations, and celebrations should be only for those who have something to celebrate.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an ambulance comes, and the police arrive. If you can avoid those things, pretty much all behaviour is acceptable.”
“Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.”
“Parties can't be artificially assembled at the Kremlin.”
“Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.”
Source: Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings
“Parties don't thrill me. I like sitting at home with a tub of Chunky Monkey ice cream watching Big Brother or Friends.”
“Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.”
Source: The Life of Oliver Cromwell: With a Selection from His Letters and Speeches
“Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.”
Source: Women
“Parties that are majority parties are incoherent parties.”
“Parties that ended with stabbing weren't part of the long term plan. Neither was being tied to a man in prison, working as a stripper, or worrying about whether or not I was safe without a goddamned brand across my back like a fucking cow.”
Source: Reaper's Legacy
“Parties weaken themselves by their fear of capable men.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.”
Source: Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...
“parties with different positions on an issues [can] get stuck because they're obsessed with the gap between them”
Source: Emotional Intelligence: Empathy
“Partilhar não significa dar algo que valorizamos e não receber nada em troca. Isso é o que acham todas as crianças que se recusam a partilhar. Partilhar meios apropriadamente significa estabelecer um comércio. Uma criança que não partilha, que não negoceia, não pode ter amigos, porque ter amigos é uma forma de comércio.”
Source: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“Parting and death are both terribly painful. But to keep nursing the memory of a love so great you can’t believe you’ll ever love again is a useless drain on a woman’s energies.”
Source: Kitchen
“Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till-'t is gone, and all is gray.”
Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
“Parting from you is sad for me but meeting you after the parting is an amazing happiness.”
“Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.”