P Quotes
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“Probably about 35 percent of Donald Trump`s supporters do not believe that President [Barack] Obama is Muslim or that he was not born in the United States.Those Trump supporters are not white supremacists. But if Trump did not have the support of Obama haters who believe that the President is a Muslim, who believe that he was not born in the United States, Donald Trump would lose two-thirds of his support.”
“Probably after Vietnam and Watergate, there was an increasing distrust of institutions, so that Jesus was still in, but the institutional church was no longer an attraction. So, I think that the dropping of the denominational label is to become more generic, less of a threat, less of a reminder of negative stereotypes if you've walked away from church.”
“Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.”
“Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.”
“Probably all of my advice is bad advice.”
“Probably all of us have random rogue cancer cells floating around in our bodies but by and large, in the majority of cases, our immune system circulates and acts as a surveillance mechanism and kills off those few tumor cells.”
“Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood behind...The immigrant, the nomad, the traveler, the sleepwalker all exist, but not the exile, since every writer becomes an exile simply by venturing into literature, and every reader becomes an exile simply by opening a book.”
“Probably all our encounters are existential
Jambalaya. Which is to say, can a nigga survive?”
Source: American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
“Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values”
Source: Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues
“Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.”
“Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart.”
“Probably also due to the political situation getting just worse and more extreme, but also this distance and this sadness of this feeling that I gave up - that I surrendered, that I felt that I lost my small war. So the whole column is different than the columns that I used to write back home, back in Jerusalem.”
“Probably any successful career has X number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't super achievers is taking advantage of those breaks.”
“Probably because I personally knew at least six or seven people in Ross County who died from overdoses in the last three years. The heroin epidemic is just too aggravating and sad and unsettling for even someone like me to live with and think about for the time it would take to write a book dealing with it.”
“Probably because I'm bald. Don't the bald people always play doctors and principals? Yeah, isn't that funny? And lawyers. A lot of lawyers and judges.”
“Probably best, he thought. If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up. Still. . . if her boys were gone . . .”
Source: Beloved
“Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.”
“Probably Darren Criss, yeah, we've become close friends.”
“Probably death is the best invention of life.”
“Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.”
“Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.”
“Probably everybody be nice to you if they knew you were dying," he said.
"Everybody knows everybody is dying," I said. "That is why people are nice. You all die soon enough, so why not be nice to each other?”
Source: Bang the Drum Slowly
“Probably everything in the world is decided by tiny last straws.”
Source: The Wine-Dark Sea
“Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.”
“Probably fewer than 2% of handguns and well under 1% of all guns will ever be involved in a violent crime. Thus, the problem of criminal gun violence is concentrated within a very small subset of gun owners, indicating that gun control aimed at the general population faces a serious needle-in-the-haystack problem.”
“Probably fishing is my first passion.”
“probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. how well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn’t necessarily affect the transformation. she was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that”
“Probably, ghosts are allergic to us. Our uproarious
Breathing & ruckus. Our eruptions, our disregard
For dust.”
Source: American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
“Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.”
“Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force in a territory, might be among the biggest violence reduction techniques ever invented.”
“Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.”
Source: Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offence
“Probably hundreds of thousands of saved pregnant mothers are going to be going up in the Rapture, and you know good and well they are going to have their babies either in Heaven or when they get back to Earth in the Millennium!”
“Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life.”
“Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.”
“Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.”
Source: The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form
“Probably I'm boring, but I have a reason about it and I'm doing behind this, so take it, like it's a fake face.”
“Probably I share a lot of stuff I haven't count them exactly but probably you understand the few. Why???
Let me guess that you don't understand horror you take it like horror nothing else, I can tell you horror isn't really a horror. It's a lesson, but can you find it in this puzzle?? Or riddle?”
“Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.”
“Probably I'll not be so successful if I will keep everything in myself inside of me.”
“Probably I'm more of a fan of the literary references than the pop-culture references. But I do go to the pop-culture well quite frequently because people, I think, are sort of inherently ready to laugh at that. It's a free laugh almost. Usually, everybody gets it.”
“Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try”
“Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost certainly destroy our sight and burn our skins to such an extent that we could not survive. The smallest bit placed on one's arm would produce a blister which it would need months to heal.”
“Probably if you look like Tyra Banks, it probably is hard, even if you are really smart, for people to take - it surprises some.”
“Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.”
“Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.”
“Probably in your mind your shit is wise, but so far what I hear for me doesn't sound as a wise.”
“Probably is not a word I like to hear when I'm talking about our chances of recouping a huge investment.”
Source: This Damn House!: My Subcontract with America
“Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.”
“Probably it's true, The Purge works for the government, who knows?”
“Probably it's true what you think and you know... but I don't caareeee I'm a fake character...”