P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Pregnant women are more likely to die from homicide by domestic violence than any other cause of death.”
“Pregnant women who are at risk for suffering complications and even death are in the prime of their lives. The most affected populations are minorities, Native Americans, immigrants, and women living in poverty and who speak little or no English.”
“Pregunta 3: ¿Por qué una persona debería estudiar Sufismo?
Respuesta: Porque fue creada para estudiarlo; es su etapa siguiente.”
Source: The Way of the Sufi
“Pregunta a estos que viven de robar si holgaran de conseguie por bunos medios aquellas cosas que consiguen con hurtos y latrocinios, y hallarás que sin duda aquel que tiene su gansncia en saltear y herir los caminantes, quisiera más hallar lo que roba que robarlo; y no hallarás algunonque no gustara más gozar los útiles de la maldad sin cometerla, que admitiéndola. El mayor beneficio que hemos recibido de la naturaleza es que la virtud envía sus luces a los ánimos de todos, de modo que la ven aun los mismos que no la siguen”
Source: On Benefits
“Pregunta: ¿qué hacer para no perder el tiempo?
Respuesta: sentirlo en toda su lentitud.
Medios: pasarse los días en la antesala de un dentista en una silla inconfortable; vivir el domingo en el balcón, por la tarde; oír conferencias en una lengua que no se conoce; escoger los itinerarios del tren más largos y menos cómodos y viajar de pie, naturalmente; hacer la cola en las taquillas de los espectáculos, sin perder su puesto, etc., etc...”
Source: The Plague
“Preguntaron a Cecil Beaton: ¿qué es la elegancia? Y respondió: agua y jabón. Que es lo mismo que decir: lo elegante es lo sencillo, lo útil, lo de toda la vida. La elegancia involuntaria se asocia al gesto generoso, a la alegría discreta, a la persona que aporta y apacigua.”
“Preguntaron al amigo qué cosa era el mundo. Respondió: «Es libro para los que saben leer, en el cual es conocido mi Amado». Le preguntaron si su Amado era el mundo. Respondió: «Sí, como el escritor en el libro». «¿ En quién está este libro?». Respondió: «En mi Amado, pues que todo lo contiene mi Amado, por cuya causa el mundo está en mi Amado y no mi Amado en el mundo»”
Source: Book of the Lover and the Beloved
“Preguntaréis por qué su poesía
no nos habla del sueño, de las hojas,
de los grandes volcanes de su país natal?
Venid a ver la sangre por las calles,
venid a ver
la sangre por las calles,
venid a ver la sangre
por las calles!”
Source: Tercera Residencia
“Preguntaste, ¿cuál es mi nación? Digo, es humanidad.”
Source: See No Gender
“Pregunto acerca del cielo, pero la respuesta es acerca de una soga.”
Source: The Dermis Probe
“Pregúntate qué sientes y qué te niegas a sentir.”
Source: Ripper
“Pregúntate si lo que estás haciendo hoy te acerca al lugar en el que quieres estar mañana.”
Source: Mickey Mouse (1941-1990) #190
“Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.”
“Prehistoric humans were too busy clawing their way to survival to consider suicide any sort of necessary option. Perhaps in a situation of imminent death there might be a decision to end one’s own life one’s own way instead of, say, by being ripped limb from limb by a surly gorilla. But apart from that, no, suicide was not a feature of the prehistoric human’s repertoire. In fact, I would further assert that suicide can only be a facet of modern society that expects happiness. And on that and many other bases, I suggest that happiness is a modern invention.”
Source: Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness
“Prehistoric learning’s fun, a Dino education...But nothing brings them back to life like your imagination”
Source: Dino Doo Dah: Dino Rhymes For Modern Times
“PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Prehistory isn't like a 'veil' or a 'curtain' that 'lifts’ to reveal the pre-set 'stage' of history. Rather, prehistory is an absence of something: an absence of writing. So a better image of the ‘dawn of history’ might be an AM radio in the pre-dawn hours: you recognize wisps of words or music across the dial, inter blending, and noise obscures even the few clear-channel stations. The first ones we find, when we switch on the radio of history about 3200B.C.E., come from Mesopotamia, and those from Egypt soon emerge. Eventually the neighbouring lands produce records, with the effect that the ancient Near East is probably the best documented civilization before the invention of printing.” (Daniels and Bright, page 19)”
Source: The World's Writing Systems
“Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered.
But if we choose to ignore it, then we'll be doomed to repeat it.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.”
Source: The Person In Psychology
“Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.”
“Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.”
“Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”
Source: Go Set a Watchman
“Prejudice against womenis many, many times intensified against older women. You are viewed not as an intellect but as a body.... Astonishingly, even women's liberation has paid extraordinarily little attention to the older woman and to the fact that her job is limited because she is [older]. They say that women shouldn't be sex objects, but you damned well better be a sex object if you want to get ahead in television.”
“Prejudice and bigotry are brought down...by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible.”
“Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.”
“Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.”
Source: Addresses on International Subjects
“Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.”
Source: The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works
“Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.”
“Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.”
“Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.”
“Prejudice doesn't allow one to accept another at a higher level. However their values or views might be respected.”
“Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.”
“Prejudice exists and probably will continue to `but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.'”
“Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.”
“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.”
“Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.”
Source: Listen to Bob Marley: The Man, the Music, the Revolution
“Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.”
“Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.”
“Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.”
“Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.”
“Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.”
“Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.”
“Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.”
“Prejudice is a plague that can only be eradicated by love.”
“Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.”
“Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.”
“Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest.”
Source: Let Us Consider One Another
“Prejudice is always dangerous.”
“Prejudice is an act of violence.”
“Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.”