P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Prestige is the shadow of money and power.”
Source: The Power Elite
“Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.”
Source: The Power Elite
“Prestige, status, reputation…are all fears of the affluent. A rich man can do anything to protect his prestige. He can buy the world’s most expensive car to bolster his status. Fear certainly sells and it sells on a premium.”
Source: Quantraz
“Preston Bailey is the be-all, end-all." Mary Ellen sighed. "He is the top celebrity and Saudi royal-family wedding planner, and people pay him millions of dollars just to plan an event. He's like the Baz Luhrmann of weddings---he creates the most transportive, gorgeous fantasy worlds." She pulled a coffee-table book from the top shelf above her desk, ignoring Abigail as usual. At least the indifference was mutual.
Claire and I drooled over every picture in the book about Bailey's events. There was a twelve-foot Arc de Triomphe made entirely of rose heads, massive chandeliers hanging from the ceiling hanging from the ceiling dripping in white phalaenopsis orchids and crystals, every kind of animal you could imagine made completely out of roses, and that was just the first chapter.”
Source: Without a Hitch
“Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through, Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through. He'd lay in bed 'til the morning came, but the devil'd visit him just the same. Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through.”
Source: The Devil and Preston Black
“Preston doesn't do well with trouble. But that's why I'm here. That's why my name is Mommy.”
Source: Second House from the Corner
“Preston explained how "doxxing is a very important tool to create conflict within far-right movements" because it establishes a constant "mental burden.”
Source: Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook
“Preston pulled me up against his chest and cupped my face in his hands. “I love you. I love you so damn much it consumes me. I don’t deserve you, but I’m gonna become the man who does deserve you. I promise you. I’ll make you proud of me.”I reached up and ran my thumb over his lips. “I am and will always be proud of you. I want the world to know you’re mine.”
Source: Just for Now
“Preston?' she said. Her voice sounded strange: small, wondering. Almost hopeful.
He glanced up. 'Yes?'
'Thank you.'
'For what?'
'For caring whether or not I die of sepsis,' she said.
'Oh,' he said. 'Well, you can never be too cautious. People have died in much more banal ways.'
'Thank you for giving me the chance to die of something interesting, then.'
'As long as you don't throw yourself out of any more moving cars.' There was a slight quiver on the left side of his mouth, as if he were trying not to smile. Behind his glasses, his eyes were solemn. 'There are far more interesting deaths out there.”
Source: A Study in Drowning
“Preston smirked. “You’re gonna have to stop calling me things like ‘gorgeous’ and ‘beautiful.’ I’m gonna get a complex. Why can’t I be ‘sexy,’ or maybe ‘irresistible’?”
Source: Just for Now
“Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.”
“Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's any good.”
“Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me.”
“Presuasion is what you say immediately before you deliver your message that leverages your success tremendously.”
“Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower.”
Source: Move On
“Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.”
Source: Endless horizons
“Presumably, remembered suffering never feels as bad as present suffering, even if it was really a lot worse - we can't remember how much worse it was, because remembering is weaker than experiencing.”
Source: Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Presumably she had an idea--women were appallingly practical: they built new plans at once out of the ruins of the old.”
Source: The Power and the Glory
“Presumably, the bells of the Church of the Ascension had been reclaimed by the Bolsheviks for the manufacture of artillery, thus returning them to the realm from whence they came. Though for all the Count knew, the cannons that had been salvaged from Napoleon's retreat to make the Ascension's bells had been forged by the French from the bells at La Rochelle; which in turn had been forged from British blunderbusses seized in the Thirty Years War. From bells to cannons and back again, from now until the end of time.”
Source: A Gentleman in Moscow
“Presumably there are energies, to which each human is sensitive, that we cannot yet detect by means of our instruments. Built into our brains and our bodies are very sensitive tuneable receivers for energies that we do not yet know about in our science but that each one of us can detect under the proper circumstances and the proper state of mind. We can tune our nervous systems and bodies to receive these energies. We can also tune our brains and bodies to transmit these energies.”
“Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the ultimate fate of the cosmos anyway? Of course we don't; not if we are sane. Our lives are ruled by all sorts of closer, warmer, human ambitions and perceptions.”
Source: The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition
“Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.”
“Presumably, as a Martial artist, I do not fight for gain or loss, am not concerned with strength or weakness, and neither advance a step nor retreat a step. The enemy does not see me. I do not see the enemy. Penetrating to a place where heaven and earth have not yet divided, where yin and yang have not yet arrived, I quickly and necessarily gain effect.”
Source: The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master
“Presumably, if you see spirit at the moment it gained access, then it'll be dropped.”
“Presumably, technology has made man increasingly independent of his environment. But, in fact, technology has merely substituted nonrenewable resources for renewables, which is more an increase than a decrease in dependence.”
Source: Steady-State Economics: Second Edition With New Essays
“Presume not that I am the thing I was.”
“Presumed consent preserves freedom of choice, but it is different from explicit consent because it shifts the default rule. Under this policy, all citizens would be presumed to be consenting donors, but they would have the opportunity to register their unwillingness to donate.”
“Presuming that a nonspeaking child has nothing to say is like presuming that an adult without a car has nowhere to go.”
Source: Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew
“Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication
“Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.”
Source: Selections from the Essays
“Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.”
“Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.”
Source: The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...
“Presumptions macerate mind.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I've been relatively - presumptuous to say - relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle.”
“Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,
Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?
First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,
Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!
Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made
Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade?
Or ask of yonder argent fields above,
Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?”
Source: An Essay on Man
“Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)
“Presupunerea este cea mai singură cale de eșec.Ea nu-ți asigură nicio certitudine.Singura certitudine ești tu, asta în cazul în care crezi în tine, dar în cazul în care nu crezi, ești doar o umbră a celui care ai fi putut să fii.”
Source: Tu ai iubi un om ca tine?
“Presurosa una muchacha vino a mí una noche
Impaciente por huir de su inocencia.
Cuando caminaba, su cuerpo le dijo al viento,
Si fueras serio, así es como deberías agitar
Las ramas.”
“Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.”
“Pretend all you want, pretty girl. You and I know that deep down you’re secretly glad to be pressed up to my body.”
Source: The Secret of Ella and Micha/The Forever of Ella and Micha
“Pretend and it will be true.”
“Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.”
“Pretend democracy is far worse than straightforward dictatorship.”
Source: Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None
“Pretend hard enough and maybe it will go away.”
Source: The Laughing Corpse: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Pretend I asked, now answer the question.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 16-19
“Pretend," I whisper against his lips.
I am recklessness incarnate. Until the very end.
My mouth meets his.
He tastes like longing. Like regret and relief. Like nothing matters but this moment.
It's fervent, like a sinner's prayer.
And maybe that is what this kiss is.
Repentance.”
“Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.”
“Pretend like everything is all right when it's not. Make horrible jokes to hide your pain.”
Source: The Gilded Ones
“Pretend like it's the weekend, ... We could pretend it all the time.”