P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.”
“Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.”
“Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.”
“Preferably, I’d like to die a painless death, and how many times have I thought of it… but because it saddens the people around me, I was not able to say it. But that, too, is a lie. If I were given a chance, I would love to live. I do not want to be separated from my loving family. (From Dare ga Otome Game da to Itta! / Who Said This Was an Otome Game! / 誰が乙女ゲームだといった！)”
“Preference poisons perspective.”
Source: The Outsider’s Mind : A Collection of Short Stories and the Quotes They Inspired
“PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary
“Preferential affirmative action patronizes American blacks, women, and others by presuming that they cannot succeed on their own. Preferential affirmative action does not advance civil rights in this country.”
“Preferential tributes of respect in words and manners even to those who have no authority in the State - reverences, obeisances (compliments) and courtly phrases marking with the utmost precision every distinction in status (something altogether different from courtesy, which must also be reciprocal) - the Du, Er, Ihr and Sie, or Ew. Wohledeln, Hochedeln, Hochedelgeborenen, Wohlgeborenen (ohe, iam satis est!) as forms of address, a pedantry in which the Germans seem to outdo any other people in the world (except possibly the Indian castes): does not all this prove that there is a widespread propensity to servility in men? But one who makes himself a worm cannot complain if people step on him.”
Source: The Doctrine of Virtue: Part 2 of The Metaphysic of Morals
“Preferisco vivere da ottimista e sbagliarmi che vivere da pessimista e avere sempre ragione.”
Source: Il club degli incorreggibili ottimisti
“Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.”
Source: Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
“Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.”
“Preferring confusion to order is not limited to waiting lines but spills over into other sectors of life, at least in Rome and other more southern regions of the country. One of these is driving, an area where stereotypes about Italians, or at least about Romans, tend to be confirmed. Gridlock, here caused by a willful invasion of the intersection, is a daily occurrence. Red lights and stop signs often are viewed as optional. Using la freccia (directional lights) to signal an intention to turn right or left is infrequent, to say the least, or else left to the last minute, that is when the driver has already begun his turn, frequently from the farthest lane on the opposite side of the roadway.”
Source: My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and loving) in Italy's Eternal City
“Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.”
“Preferring steady progress, slow and imperfect, is a good philosophy for the defeated.”
Source: Anopheles Gambiae in Brazil, 1930 to 1940
“Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.”
“Prefiere estar loco igual que todos, y no cuerdo y solitario.
Así dicen los políticos, con toda razón. Que si todos son locos, tú no saldrás perdiendo por estarlo. Si eres el único cuerdo, te acusarán de loco. Por iso es importante seguir la corrente de la gente. Muchas veces, la mayor sabiduría consiste en no saber, o aparentar no saber. Has de vivir con la gente, y la mayoría son ignorantes.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
“Prefiero el amor de pingüinos, donde el compromiso es un baile de ternura y lealtad en el hielo, o mi solitud, por encima de la pena de tener que vagar en un mundo de promesas vacías y corazones errantes.”
“Prefiero estar bajo la supervisión de Dios, y ser moldeada aunque duela; que
estar bajo el pie del enemigo y sentir que no valgo nada”
Source: Se Fijó en mí
“Prefiero guiarme por mis sueños y escuchar la Voz, la cual me transmite el auténtico credo. Persisto en la práctica de desollar mi piel, impulsado por el asco que siento hacia mi condición humana.”
Source: Shangri-La 93
“Prefiero, señor, obrar bien y fracasar, antes que triunfar con malas artes.
Palabras de Neoptólemo a Odiseo, en la tragedia griega Filoctetes.”
“Prefiero veros convertidas en esposas de hombres pobres pero felices, amadas y satisfechas, a que seáis reinas en su trono, carentes de respeto y de paz.”
Source: Mujercitas
“Prefiro canibalismo à dissimulação.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Prefiro cativar a seduzir, mas cativar não seria uma sedução mais ingênua e inocente e inócua? Até mesmo eletrostática.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Prefiro procurar briga, provocar, prefiro correr o risco de ser detestado. Prefiro servir minha sopa bem salgada.”
Source: Tigre de Papel
“Pregai che il ricordo di questo momento in cui prendevamo un tè delizioso e bollente seduti l'uno di fronte all'altro in un posto piacevole e caldo restasse in lui come una scia luminosa e lo aiutasse.
Le parole sono sempre troppo crude e finiscono con lo spegnere luci preziose e fievoli come quella.”
Source: Kitchen
“Pregar o amor
É quebrar o preconceito
E abrir o coração para o mundo.”
“Pregnancies and births happen in their own time, regardless of our conscious wishes, hopes, efforts, and fantasies. We may decide we want a child and make every effort to have one, and yet, whether it happens or not is beyond the control of even the most desirous and diligent of couples. And even when a pregnancy does occur, when the surprise moment of conception is confirmed, doctors give us a due date which can only be an approximation, for when and how the baby arrives is also a matter beyond determination. For this reason, in my opinion, almost nothing more than a pregnancy and birth deserve to be called synchronistic: the random coincidence of one of millions of sperm meeting a particular egg, yet from this coincidence, which we do not ultimately control, grows all of life. Is there any more significant coincidence that we experience?”
“Pregnancy and birth are the ultimate transitions and life transformations! You are going to learn more about yourself and your body than you ever thought possible. After birth, you will never be the same.
This can be a good thing if you go into it with all your power in your own hands...”
Source: Your Empowered Birth: Get The Birth You Want
“Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have ever experienced.”
“Pregnancy, childbirth, healing and old age all required gee force. No amount of gengineering by the Biomistresses of the great stations could circumvent that inescapable evolutionary fact.”
Source: Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 100, January 2015
“Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality.”
Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
“Pregnancy had seemed a reasonable excuse for letting her metal-smithing tools languish, but that accounted for only eighteen months of the last twenty-six years. Motherhood wasn't the real problem, though it took him a long time to figure out what was. She needed resistance, the very quality that metal most demonstrably offered up. Suddenly Glynis had no difficulty to overcome, no hard artisan's life with galleries filching half the too-small price of a mokume brooch that had taken three weeks to forge. No, her husband made a good living, and if she slept late and dawdled the afternoon away reading Lustre, American Craft Magazine and Lapidary Journal, the phone bill would still get paid. For that matter, she needed need itself. She could overcome her anguish about embarking on an object that, once completed, might not meet her exacting standards only if she had no choice. In this sense, his helping had hurt her. By providing the financial cushion that should have facilitated making all the metal whathaveyou she liked, he had ruined her life. Wrapped in a slackening bow, ease was a poisonous present.”
Source: So Much for That
“Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction.”
“Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.”
“Pregnancy is a natural event, but you lessen the chances conception can occur with an unnatural diet.”
Source: EAT! Empower Adjust Triumph!
“Pregnancy is a uniquely intimate relationship between two people. All of us luxuriate in this relationship once, and half of us are lucky enough to be able to do it all over again a second time, from the other side as it were. Never again outside of pregnancy can we be so truly intwined with someone else, no matter how hard we try.”
Source: Making Babies: The Science of Pregnancy
“Pregnancy is a very tough experience for a female, have no doubt. But, it's not a walk in the park for a man either. Understanding on both sides is key”
“Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.”
Source: A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation
“Pregnancy is getting company inside one's skin.”
“Pregnancy is not only a physical state. It is a deeply emotional, spiritual, and social experience.”
Source: Pregnancy Horoscope 2026: Yearly Fertility & Motherhood Astrology for All Zodiac Signs
“Pregnancy is not something to take lightly,” he continued. “My mother suffered through two pregnancies, and nobody took care of her. Not even the doctors she went to. They told her that it was normal, that gestational hypertension and diabetes are something that many pregnant women experience, and that she was just being dramatic.”
Source: Solana
“Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.”
“Pregnancy is the only time in a woman's life she can help God work a miracle.”
“Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.”
Source: Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition
“Pregnancy takes a huge physical toll on your body. I have many friends who have had babies and many of them require medical help and attention, emergency Cesarean sections and forceps. If you think that people just have a kid and it's no big deal, that's not true. It's one of the most dangerous things for a woman to do. If you take away access to accessible medical women in America, you're going to bump up the death rate.”
“Pregnancy = "the slow, difficult, and delightful apprenticeship in attentiveness, gentleness, forgetting oneself. The ability to succeed in this path without masochism and without annihilating one's affective, intellectual, and professional personality - such would seem to be the stakes to be won through guiltless maternity.”
“Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy.”
“Pregnant
and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that
gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental
forces. In order to understand the laws of their energy flow, you have
to love and respect them for their magnificence at the same time that
you study them with the accuracy of a true scientist.”
Source: Spiritual Midwifery
“pregnant belly of
sunlight, bouncing
over an open book”
“Pregnant.
I ran upstairs screaming. We'd found each other. Eric thought something was wrong because I was crying. I couldn't talk, just handed him the pregnancy test. What I'd known for that minute, he now knew, and I watched the excitement and relief wash over him.
We called everybody. My sweet mother almost tried to turn around on the highway to get to me sooner. Everybody wanted to come over, and we welcomed them. I'm sorry I didn't call you, but I would have if I'd had your number.”
Source: Open Book