P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Pretending to be who we are not makes us fearful and unfulfilled.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“Pretending to care what men think is an art. It takes moments to learn, but lifetimes to master. I'd like to believe I'm an expert.”
“pretending to do something when you're doing nothing is an art form in itself.”
Source: X
“Pretending to drink coffee was similar to faking an orgasm.”
Source: First Grave on the Right
“Pretending to feel something you don't can often lead you to the real thing, in some form.”
Source: The Rules
“Pretending to him that she felt something would be easy. Pretending to herself that she didn't? That was a whole other story.”
Source: Deception Island
“Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.”
“Pretending we're perfect is like airbrushing a zebra's stripes and calling it a Thoroughbred. We're not fooling anyone, and we'll never win a race.”
Source: Savvy Survival. . . : for women starting over alone later in life.
“Pretending you are not in love with someone only delays the time of you getting over them.”
“Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.”
Source: Getting Started with MakerBot
“Pretending you’re OK when you aren’t isn’t strength.”
“Well, that’s where you’re wrong,” Robin contradicted him. The champagne had fizzed on her tongue and seemed to give her courage even before it hit her brain. “Sometimes, acting as though you’re all right, makes you all right. Sometimes you’ve got to slap on a brave face and walk out into the world, and after a while it isn’t an act anymore, it’s who you are. If I’d waited to feel ready to leave my room after—you know,” she said, “I’d still be in there. I had to leave before I was ready.”
Source: Lethal White
“Pretense is of no avail. Few are deceived by the face that is just painted on: one's true identity goes straight to the core. Deceits have nothing solid about them. A lie is a tenuous thing, and on inspection, transparent.”
Source: Seneca: Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic
“pretense is the oil that lubricates society.”
Source: Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man
“Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.”
“Pretension, dear love, does not buy truth into lies, nor alter its course.”
Source: Wine, Fire, Satin, Dew
“Pretension is nothing; power is everything.”
“Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.”
Source: Essays, lectures and orations
“Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.”
“Pretensões e expectativas, difícil caminhar sem incorrer nestes erros. O amor não é uma expectativa ou uma condição. É um estado de espírito para com a natureza. A música e o seu cantor. A poesia e o seu poeta. A pintura e o seu pintor. A alma do homem e o seu meio.”
Source: Consciência: Delírios e Galopes
“Pretentious quotations [are] the surest road to tedium.”
Source: A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
“Pretentiousness isn't always just big words and meaningless jargon, but also pretty words that either when put into action don't mean beans or hurt you in the long run. Oftentimes, the former appeals to the intellect whereas the latter appeals to the heart.”
Source: Killosophy
“Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.”
“Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.”
“Pretium iustum mathematicum licet soli Deo notum.”
Source: R.P. Ioannis de Lugo ... Disputationes scholasticae de Incarnatione dominica ... 1633 [Leather Bound]
“Pretjerano čitanje ne čini nas pametnijim. Neki ljudi jednostavno 'gutaju' knjige. Oni to čine bez onih neophodnih intervala razmišljanja, koji su potrebni da se pročitano 'svari', preradi, usvoji, razumije. Kod čitanja lični doprinos je potreban kao što je pčeli potreban 'unutrašnji' rad, pa i vrijeme, da sakupljeni cvijetni prah pretvori u med.”
Source: Izetbegovic of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Notes from Prison, 1983-1988
“Pretnja religioznom stavu ne leži u nauci, već u pretežnim praksama svakodnevnog života. Tu je čovek prestao da traži u sebi vrhovni smisao života i od sebe je napravio instrument, koji služi ekonomskoj mašini, koju su njegove ruke napravile. Njega brine efikasnost i uspeh, umesto njegove sreće i rasta njegove duše. Naročito, orijentacija koja većinom ugrožava religiozni stav je ono, što sam nazvao „tržišnom orijentacijom” modernog čoveka.”
Source: Psychoanalysis and Religion
“Prettiness can hide a whole lot of ugly things.”
“Prettiness dies first.”
Source: The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations
“Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age.”
“Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'”
“Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.”
“pretty and dirty and beautiful and wild all at once”
“Pretty armour doesn't make a warrior.”
Source: Emperor of Thorns
“Pretty as a picture, sweeter that a swisher. Mad ‘cause I’m cuter that the girl that’s with ya’.”
“Pretty bows on a pile of sh$t only make it harder to flush.”
Source: A Good Marriage
“Pretty cities are filled by evil people.”
“Pretty colors that she wore in her hair, like fragments of the sunrise, made him think of all the mornings they had yet to see.”
Source: I Took a Plane to Die in Denver
“Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers, F.S.A. and Others. To which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author
“pretty darling, don't you dare
to doubt your golden soul
in your entire soulfulness
you are already whole”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“Pretty' doesn't mean 'good,' you know, Geneva. Real life isn't like fairy tales. 'Pretty' simply means that by accident you've got things arranged on your outside in an extra-pleasing manner. It doesn't tell a thing about your inside.”
“Pretty early on in making the first movie I realized that this is what I wanted to do. I felt like by that time I just found my niche, like this is what I was supposed to be doing. So I completely submerged myself into the world of watching movies, making my own movies, buying video cameras and lights. When I wasn't making a movie, I was making my own movies. When I wasn't making movies, I was watching movies. I was going back and studying film and looking back at guys that were perceived as great guys that I can identify with. It just became my life.”
“Pretty faces have distracted incoming hands ready to stab. Sex has disguised arguments. Politeness has prevented confrontation. Laughing has slowed down revelation. Emotions have been misinterpreted as agreements. Judgment has hampered our listening. Perhaps, for now, we are more accurately defined by what we say or think and not how we seem or look.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“Pretty flowers grew on the banks in colors her books did not adequately re-create: pink, golden eggy yellow, bright white with the shadow of its own curled petal twinning next to it.”
Source: What Once Was Mine
“Pretty fortunate that with the exception of two months when I was 23, that I worked in a law office pushing paper around. I was always able to eke out a living somehow. So I'm blessed.”
“Pretty fucking tragic twist of fate, but you don’t seem to remember that we first met years ago. An issue, since I remember a little too well. I like no one, absolutely no one, but I liked you from the start. I liked you when I didn’t know you, and now that I do know you it’s only gotten worse. Sometimes, often, always, I think about you before falling asleep. Then I dream of you, and when I wake up my head’s still there, stuck on something funny, beautiful, filthy, intelligent that’s all about you. It’s been going on for a while, longer than you think, longer than you can imagine, and I should have told you, but I have this impression, this certainty that you’re half a second from running away, that I should give you enough reasons to stay. Is there anything I can do for you? I’ll take you grocery shopping and fill your fridge when we’re back home. Buy you a new bike and a case of decent reagent and that sludge you drink. Kill the people who made you cry. Is there something you need? Name it. It’s yours. If I have it, it’s yours.”
Source: The Love Hypothesis
“Pretty girl and all. Asking. Gotta love that. Stuff of heroes. Don't get the role too often.”
“Pretty girls are a business' I say, 'and that has nothing do to with love”
Source: The Artificial Silk Girl
“Pretty girls behave best when you ignore them. Of course, they have to know you are ignoring them, for otherwise they may not even know you exist.”
Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage
“pretty girls behave better when you ignore them.”
“Pretty girls come a dime a dozen, try to find one who's gonna give you true loving.”