P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Pretty, pretty please, don't you ever ever feel like you're less than, less than perfect.”
“Prevail? Precisely! Patience.”
“Prevail to betray me to unveil your evil”
“Prevailing prayer is prayer that pushes right through all difficulties and obstacles, drives back all the opposing forces of Satan, and secures the will of God. Its purpose is to accomplish God's will on earth. Prevailing prayer is prayer that not only takes the initiative but continues on the offensive for God until spiritual victory is won.”
“Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality.”
“Prevailing prayer requires a tender, compassionate heart, a deep solicitude for the glory of God and the good of His people. Nehemiah wept and mourned.”
Source: In the Day of Thy Power: The Spiritual Principles of Revival
“Prevarication, how divine! I always did get along better with sinners.”
Source: Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5
“Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.”
Source: The Castle in the Forest
“Prevent the things you have been doing and you are half-way home.”
“Prevent your day at morning.”
Source: The alchemist. Catiline. Bartholomew Fair
“Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.”
“Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.”
Source: Hacking the Earth
“Preventing people from illegally immigrating to the United States should be the primary purpose of Customs and Border Protection.”
“Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda.”
“Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it.”
“Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mind-set of youth today.”
“Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.”
Source: Education and Ecstasy: With,
“Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.”
Source: Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
“Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.”
“Prevention by severing the chain is the immediate solution.”
“Prevention is a very important part of solving the problem of cancer.”
“Prevention is better than cure.”
Source: The Adages of Erasmus
“Prevention is not only not better than cure; prevention is even worse than disease. Prevention means being an invalid for life, with the extra exasperation of being quite well.”
“Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.”
“Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.”
“Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.”
Source: Miscellaneous works
“Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.”
Source: Tertullian Collection [2 Books]
“Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.”
“Preventive Maintenance: Don't start today by doing yesterday's work.”
“Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.”
“Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.”
Source: It is what I think: 1947-1948
“Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.”
“Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.”
“Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“Previno-te. O meu corpo não tem memória.”
“Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa.”
“Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach.”
Source: House of the Tiger King : The Quest for a Lost City
“Previous experience taught her that the pain would not be unending - but neither would it subside smoothly, incrementally, but rather in a series of crashing waves, some of which might still knock her off her feet”
Source: Small Pleasures
“Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.”
“Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.”
Source: House of the Tiger King Paperback
“Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.”
Source: House of the Tiger King Paperback
“Previous research showed that loud
music in a restaurant caused people to consume
more alcohol and soda, while slow music lead to
customers ordering more and staying longer. Dr.
Charles Spence, professor at Oxford University,
also found that certain types of music will bring
out certain flavors in the food.
For example, the experience of sweetness or bitterness in the food could be increased or decreased by simply changing the background music. Sweet sounds would increase the experience of a food’s sweetness, while “bitter” sounds would increase the bitterness rating.”
Source: The Power of Tattoos: Twelve Hidden Energy Secrets of Body Art Every Tattoo Enthusiast Should Know
“Previous technologies have expanded communication. But the last round may be contracting it. The eloquence of letters has turned into the unnuanced spareness of texts; the intimacy of phone conversations has turned into the missed signals of mobile phone chat ... ('you're breaking up' is the cry of our time).”
Source: The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
“Previous to this time I had never even a balloon except from a distance. Being interested in their construction, I was about to institute a thorough examination of all its parts, when the aeronaut announced that all was ready. He inquired whether I desired to go up alone, or he should accompany me. My desire, if frankly expressed, would have been not to go up at all; but if I was to go, company was certainly desirable. With an attempt at indifference, I intimated that he might go along.”
“Previously, as I went through life, I was in full belief of the concept of "blending" (I was fully convinced that I as a person am completely capable of blending myself in the accordance of friendship, in order to give respect to the differences between people and in order for others to feel that I respect them). However, I have come to learn at this time in my life, that such an attitude is all good for a while, but then there does come a point where you must see and identify yourself; also see and identify others! You have to be able to identify yourself as someone who is made happy by this and as someone who doesn't like that; then when you meet people, discern if those same things are the things that make them happy and if those same things are the things that they don't like, because at a point in time it becomes beneficial to you, to not waste time on blending in behalf of virtue but rather it becomes beneficial to you, to see yourself and go into the direction that makes you happy, taking people with you that are already going in that same direction and who also do not like the things that you do not like. At the end of the day, there are those paths in life, and you have to take one of them, you can't walk down all of them.”
“Previously, gay life had seemed a merry series of cabinet reshuffles and rearrangements, in which everyone was single for a time, then paired off for a time. If you stood still with a welcoming smile on your face, sooner or later somebody would come over and sit on it.”
Source: King of the Badgers
“Previously I always thought it was just tactical and technique, but every match has become almost mental and physical - I try to push myself to move well. I try to push myself not to get upset and stay positive, and that's what my biggest improvement is over all those years. Under pressure I can see things very clear.”
“Previously, I had based all my decisions on the fact that someone said that it felt good, but there was no real reason beyond that. Previously, the “why” had always been lacking. Previously my why had been about as sophisticated as that of a monkey.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.”
“Previously, leaving the couch and walking up to the television to change the channel might cost more effort than merely enduring the awful advertisement and associated anxiety. But with a remote in hand, the viewer can click a button and move away effortlessly. Add cable television and the ability to change channels without returning the set (not to mention hundreds of channels to watch instead of just three), and the audience's orientation to the program has utterly changed. The child armed with the remote control is no longer watching a television program, but watching television—moving away from anxiety states and into more pleasurable ones.
Take note of yourself as you operate a remote control. You don't click the channel button because you are bored, but because you are mad: Someone you don't trust is attempting to make you anxious. You understand that it is an advertiser trying to make you feel bad about your hair (or lack of it), your relationship, or your current SSRI medication, and you click away in anger. Or you simply refuse to be dragged still further into a comedy or drama when the protagonist makes just too many poor decisions. Your tolerance for his complications goes down as your ability to escape becomes increasingly easy. And so today's television viewer moves from show to show, capturing important moments on the fly. Surf away from the science fiction show's long commercial break to catch the end of a basketball game's second quarter, make it over to the first important murder on the cop show, and then back to the science fiction show before the aliens show up.”
Source: Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now