P Quotes
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“Prince Wen-hui’s cook, Ting, was cutting up an ox. Every touch of his hand, every ripple of his shoulders, every step of his feet, every thrust of his knees, every cut of his knife, was in perfect harmony, like the dance of the Mulberry Grove, like the chords of the Lynx Head music. Well done! said the prince. How did you gain such skill? Putting down his knife, Ting said, I follow the Tao, Your Highness, which goes beyond all skills. When I first began cutting up oxen, all I could see was the ox. After three years, I had learned to look beyond the ox. Nowadays I see with my whole being, not with my eyes. I sense the natural lines, and my knife slides through by itself, never touching a joint, much less a bone. A good cook changes knives once a year: he cuts. An ordinary cook changes knives once a month: he hacks. This knife of mine has lasted for nineteen years; it has cut up thousands of oxen, but its blade is as sharp as if it were new. Between the joints there are spaces, and the blade has no thickness. Having no thickness, it slips right through; there’s more than enough room for it. And when I come to a difficult part, I slow down, I focus my attention, I barely move, the knife finds its way, until suddenly the flesh falls apart on its own. I stand there and let the joy of the work fill me. Then I wipe the blade clean and put it away. Bravo! cried the prince. From the words of this cook, I have learned how to live my life.”
Source: The Second Book of the Tao
“Prince William and Kate Middleton are in New York City. We have got to do something about immigration.”
“Prince William definitely isn't my type, he's too horsey-looking.”
“Prince William looks good in uniform and Man-at-Hackett black and white tie (he has grown up wearing it constantly); less certain in his suits, which sometimes look borderline archaic; and variable in casual. But completely comfortable in the Sloane uniform of non-designer jeans and chocolate-brown suede loafers. He'll look fine in Boden.”
“Prince William's pregnant wife, Kate Middleton, is past her due date. Doctors may have to induce labor. To speed up the birth, doctors have been telling the baby, 'Come on out. You will never have to work a day in your life.'”
“Prince would have been the person I thought would live forever because of the way he took care of himself - not counting the fact he jumped off risers in 6-inch heels. He probably had fractures from his feet all the way up to his head.”
“Prince, sad to say, has passed on!!!He was a Giant. My deep condolences go out to his family, friends and fans.”
“Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.”
“Princes and Counties! Surely, a princely testimony, a goodly Count Comfect; a sweet gallant, surely! O! that I were a man for his sake, or that I had any friend would be a man for my sake! But manhood is melted into curtsies, valour into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules, that only tells a lie and swears it. I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.”
“Princes are fighters or administrators. Neither of those things do much to spread joy in the world. Whores, concubines, and catamites, on the other hand, are all about giving satisfaction. Now granted, sexual pleasure is a temporary sort of happiness, but it is better than a new tax or a sword in the gut.”
Source: Concubine
“Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.”
Source: Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. His Natural history. II. Physiological and medical remains. III. The new Atlantis. IV. His Apothegms. V. Essays. VI. Colours of good and evil. VII. History of the reign of Henry VII. VIII. History of Henry VIII. IX. Beginning of the history of Great Britain. X. Of a war with Spain. XI. Of an holy war. XII. The history of the office of alienations. XIII. Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Geor
“Princes are venison in Heaven.”
Source: The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations
“Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees”
Source: Between the Lines
“Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.”
“Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.”
“Princes give rewards with their own hands,
But death or punishment by the hands of other.”
Source: The White Devil
“Princes have big ears which hear far and near.”
“Princes have but their titles for their glories,
An outward honor for an inward toil;
And, for unfelt imaginations,
They often feel a world of restless cares.”
Source: 1847. Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus
“Princes in the workhouse,
He who did not sleep on a box owns a bed.
See, the man of wealth lies thirsting.
He who begged dregs has overflowing bowls.
See, those who owned robes are in rags,
He who did not weave for himself owns fine linen.
See, he who did not build a boat for himself owns ships,
Their owner looks at them: they are not his.”
Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“Princes know themselves to be princes, and are not snobs; besides, they believe themselves to be so far above everything that is not of their blood royal that noblemen and commoners appear, in the depths beneath them, to be practically on a level.”
Source: In the shadow of young girls in flower
“Princes must be so confused when they see you," said Dot. "Most villains don't look like princesses.”
Source: The School for Good and Evil
“Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from the vices, no less than the virtues of Kings.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.
“Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.”
“Princes that would their people should do well
Must at themselves begin, as at the head;
For men, by their example, pattern out
Their limitations, and regard of laws:
A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.”
“Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own.”
Source: Foxe's Book Of Martyrs
“Princesa de Asturias
Castela já não mais está, nem Leão,
e me como maravilho com impérios
a mui cristã Andaluzia aos martírios,
a mui árabe Granada do sultão.
Contra Aragão não pôde, Boabdil
nem eleito povo, mais fosse ardil
nem podiam os mouros Taifás
mui santo foi Gregório já atrás.
Tão forte Almóravides austral sumiu,
tão bela donzela surgiu a castelhana
a quem me apraz Asturias mílvio[
]lábaro; a quem Afonso deixou sem pio.
Santiago irmão do amado, foi achado
foi a moça conquistada em Covadonga,
foi meu amor, ó Munuza, em data longa.
Ao longo do Douro vale, foi o Nunes,
pelos celtas mui pagãos passou,
pelos campos d’Ourique, foi Henriques.”
Source: O enigma da Rosa
“PRINCESA DESALENTO
Minh'alma é a Princesa Desalento,
Como um Poeta lhe chamou, um dia.
É magoada, e pálida, e sombria,
Como soluços trágicos do vento!
É fágil como o sonho dum momento;
Soturna como preces de agonia,
Vive do riso duma boca fria:
Minhalma é a Princesa Desalento...
Altas horas da noite ela vagueia...
E ao luar suavíssimo, que anseia,
Põe-se a falar de tanta coisa morta!
O luar ouve minh'alma, ajoelhado,
E vai traçar, fantástico e gelado,
A sombra duma cruz à tua porta...”
Source: Livro de Soror Saudade
“Princesa? Princesa é o cacete e a rainha é a minha mão metendo um murro na cara dele, se ele não tirar as mãos dela.”
Source: Eu Te Dou Meu Amor
“Princess Aerea had known Vermithor and Silverwing during her time at court, but she had never been allowed too close to them. Here she could visit with the dragons as often as she liked; the hatchlings, the young drakes, her mother's Dreamfyre... and greatest of them all, Balerion and Vhagar, huge and ancient and sleepy, but still terrifying when they woke and stirred and spread their wings.”
Source: Fire & Blood
“Princess Anna was never more than a few steps away from him. He was beginning to feel like a besieged castle. The man should be the arrow, and the woman should be the target. Here, however, it seemed that the target was flying around trying to run into the arrow. There was something wrong about it.”
Source: Palace Intrigue
“Princess Bibesco delighted in a semi-ideal world - a world which, though having a counterpart in her experience, was to a great extent brought into being by her own temperament and, one might say, flair.”
Source: People, Places, Things: Essays
“Princess Caspida, I have nothing but respect and admiration for you. Truly you will be the queen this city needs. But I can’t marry you.”
The princess stands still as stone, her face unreadable. “Why not, Prince Rahzad?”
“I am sorry,” he replies. “The truth is, I am in love, but not with you.”
He turns to me, and my spirit takes flight like a flock of doves, startled and erratic. I cannot move, cannot speak, as he takes my hands in his and looks me earnestly in the eye. He presses the ring into my palm, and the gold feels as if it burns my skin.
“This belongs to you, and you alone. I’ve been so blind, Zahra. So caught up in the past that I’ve failed to see what’s happening in front of me. I’ve been such an idiot, I don’t know how I can expect anything from you. But I have to try. I have to tell the truth, and the truth is . . . I love you.”
Source: The Forbidden Wish
“Princess Cookie’s cognitive pathways may have required a more comprehensive analysis. He knew that it was possible to employ certain progressive methods of neural interface, but he felt somewhat apprehensive about implementing them, for fear of the risks involved and of the limited returns such tactics might yield. For instance, it would be a particularly wasteful endeavor if, for the sake of exhausting every last option available, he were even to go so far as resorting to invasive Ontological Neurospelunkery, for this unorthodox process would only prove to be the cerebral equivalent of tracking a creature one was not even sure existed: surely one could happen upon some new species deep in the caverns somewhere and assume it to be the goal of one’s trek, but then there was a certain idiocy to this notion, as one would never be sure this newfound entity should prove to be what one wished it to be; taken further, this very need to find something, to begin with, would only lead one to clamber more deeply inward along rigorous paths and over unsteady terrain, the entirety of which could only be traversed with the arrogant resolve of someone who has already determined, with a misplaced sense of pride in his own assumptions, that he was undoubtedly making headway in a direction worthwhile. And assuming still that this process was the only viable option available, and further assuming that Morell could manage to find a way to track down the beast lingering ostensibly inside of Princess Cookie, what was he then to do with it? Exorcise the thing? Reason with it? Negotiate maybe? How? Could one hope to impose terms and conditions upon the behavior of something tracked and captured in the wilds of the intellect? The thought was a bizarre one and the prospect of achieving success with it unlikely. Perhaps, it would be enough to track the beast, but also to let it live according to its own inclinations inside of her. This would seem a more agreeable proposition.
Unfortunately, however, the possibility still remained that there was no beast at all, but that the aberration plaguing her consciousness was merely a side effect of some divine, yet misunderstood purpose with which she had been imbued by the Almighty Lord Himself. She could very well have been functioning on a spiritual plane far beyond Morell’s ability to grasp, which, of course, seared any scrutiny leveled against her with the indelible brand of blasphemy. To say the least, the fear of Godly reprisal which this brand was sure to summon up only served to make the prospect of engaging in such measures as invasive Ontological Neurospelunkery seem both risky and wasteful. And thus, it was a nonstarter.”
Source: Only the Deplorable
“Princess Di is my sister, she just won't admit it.”
“Princess Diana talking to Prince William about the loss of her title Her Royal Highness: She turned to William in her distress. She (Princess Diana) told me how he had sat with her one night when she was upset over the loss of HRH, put his arms around her and said: Don't worry, Mummy. I will give it back to you one day when I am king.”
“Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.”
“Princess Diana was a wonderful, caring philanthropist. She would come sometimes into the church and sit at the back and pray.”
“Princess... er, Erina."
"I'm aware this is terribly belated, but please allow me to offer my sincere condolences on the death of your mother.
Now then, do you have any plans for what you'll be doing from here on out?"
"Huh? Plans? Me?
Um, I don't really have anywhere left to go..."
"Really? That's perfect. We were just searching for a chef of exceptional talent.
Satisfying the Book Master's exceedingly refined palate is no small feat.
We can have no shortage of highly capable chefs on hand to accomplish this task.
Besides...
If everyone wasn't present for our cozy family meals...
... it'd reflect poorly on the venerable Nakiri Family's good name.
And you are family.
Isn't that right...
... elder brother Asahi?”
Source: 食戟のソーマ 36 [Shokugeki no Souma 36]
“Princess..." he croaked, his voice barely making it out. His hand covered mine, taking several beats to gather the energy to talk again. "I think you owe me a lot of blowjobs for that.”
Source: Blood Lands
“Princess,” he murmured, tilting his head, “we, dragons, mate in the air… Wanna strengthen our bond?”
Source: Ashen Embrace (Divine Destinies
“Princess Linetta turned around and around, a circular dance that felt mystical and otherworldly in this secret of a place, a shrouded realm of silvery light.”
Source: Prince of Chandeliers
“Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.”
“Princess, princess, youngest daughter,
Open up and let me in!
Or else your promise by the water
Isn’t worth a rusty pin.
Keep your promise, royal daughter,
Open up and let me in!”
Source: Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
“Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.”
“Princess, you could never be that. You are unique to me. (Zarek) Am I your rose? (Astrid) Yes, you are my rose. There is only one of you in all the millions of planets and stars. (Zarek)”
“Princess,” he whispered against her ear. “My beautiful, beautiful princess. I want to spoil you. Pamper you. Indulge you.”
Source: A Whisper of Roses
“Princess." He smiled up at me, but it was weak. "If i'd known that this is what it would take to get you to hold me, I would've collapsed a long time ago.”
“Princesses become queens, and there's never been a queen undeserving of burning.”
Source: The Summer Children
“Princesses did not display curiosity. They waited. And waited. Until someone else decided the outcome of their lives for them.”
Source: The Faceless Mage