P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.”
Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.”
“prom·ise (ˈpräməs) n. pl. - es. 1. The lie you want to keep. [2015, Whittier]”
Source: Everything, Everything
“Prom night can be a special night, if you let it be. I know you think it's for losers and something that popular kids do because they are boring people with porcelain hearts who don't know what it means to be lonely. But you're wrong. Prom is a chance for everyone to try oral sex. Go for it.”
“Promenade was totally driven by the context. The internal relationships of measurement and placement related to the central axis of the site. The placement of the rectangular plates followed a strict logic in that the plates tilted away and towards the center line in an asymmetrical counterpoint. However, the perception of the sculpture contradicts the logic of its relation to the site. As you walk inbetween the plates you see fragments, you see the work in part, you cannot grasp the whole.”
“Promesa: Mentira que querías cumplir.”
Source: Everything, Everything
“Prometeo fue castigado por los dioses, encadenado en una montaña, condenado a que un buitre le comiese el hígado, que se regeneraba cada día. Víctor Frankenstein en la novela, debió cargar con el peso de sus acciones, pagando algunos de los precios más altos que existen. Y el resto de protagonistas en esta historia también. Pero todos ellos, de alguna forma, fueron castigados no por dioses como el titán, sino por sus mismos inventos.”
“Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?”
Source: A Voyage to the Moon: Souls Needed for You
“Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.”
Source: Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories
“Prometheus stole fire from the gods. We are each the heirs of that divine spark. Used wisely, the spark fuels one's journey and lights the way. Treated carelessly, the spark consumes its owner and everything in its path.”
Source: Painted Oxen
“Prometheus, you’ll remember, stole fire from the gods and gave it to the rest of us. That’s what I want to do with guitar instruction and music theory. I want to steal it from the fog of ancient rubrics and the rarified prison of control represented by the academy. I want it liberated from the pulpit and the throne, the pit and the stick . . .”
Source: The Guitar Decoder Ring: Featuring SIGIL - the New Language of Guitar
“Prometheus, I have no Titan's might,
Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart,
For daytime's vulture talons tear apart
The tender alcoves built by love at night.”
“Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.”
“Prometió que no volvería a pisar esa casa, al menos hasta que todos olvidaran lo que había hecho. O hasta que recordaran que aún eran familia. O cuando ninguna de las dos cosas importara.”
Source: Paulina y Magaly
“Promettevano che sarebbero migliorati anche loro, perché non si finisce mai di perfezionarsi.”
Source: La voce degli uomini freddi
“Prometían algo que no podían dar, y me incitaban a buscar lo Tuyo en lugares donde Tú no estabas.”
Source: Confesiones de un Inquisidor
“Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.”
“Prominent Democratic strategists are growing increasingly nervous that the national political environment is not only bad for their side but moving in the wrong direction in the final days before the election, a trend that not only could cost their party control of the Senate but also result in double-digit House losses.”
“Prominent exploration experts have recently predicted that total world production of liquid oil will peak by about the end of this decade-or a few years later if production does not rise much-and will decline thereafter.”
“Promiscuity does not scare me as long as she is savvy and self possessed when puberty comes to call. My aim is to simply raise my daughter to be secure in her self worth and capable of happiness all on her own.”
“Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.”
“Promiscuity is the death of love.”
“Promiscuity turns sex into a sport, like arm-wrestling.”
“Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream.”
“Promiscuous ... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation.”
Source: Message from a Stranger: A Novel
“Promiscuous animals, by and large, have smaller brains, for relationship demands a good deal of processing power, and promiscuity is a denial of relationship. Monogamy, as many of us know, is costly and hard: it demands work, though the pay-off can be profound. The work is often emotional work: give and take; forgiveness and forbearance.”
Source: The Screaming Sky
“Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.”
“Promiscuous women are more likely to be liberal.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“PROMISE DAY POEM:
I don't promise that I will bring the moon for you,
but.. I shall stand by you in sun!
I don't promise that I will not fight with you ever,
but.. We shall be together, forever;
and distances or differences shall be none!!
I don't promise that life will be so easy, and cheesy,
but.. when you are with me,
I'll make sure it's always fun!!!
I just promise one thing; I'll never make you cry,
I'll never let you go, so all I need is you to be with me..
Let's make it happen.. and let our destiny shine.
My life is yours forever..
..
O girl, O girl, O.. O.. girl.. you be mine..
Love is more than just promises..
Hey honey you be my.. Valentine.
Just be mine..
O O.. my Valentine!”
Source: Guru with Guitar
“Promise demands Process.”
“Promise?”
“Fuck yeah. I’m just worried you aren’t.”
“Well, I am.”
“Could fuck with you.”
“Maybe, but you’ll be here.”
“Could give you bad dreams.”
“Maybe, but you’ll be here.”
“Could be okay then in a year, two, twelve, it’ll sneak up and haunt you.” Jeez! Sometimes a protective hero hot guy could be stubborn and annoying. It was my turn to be firm.
“Okay, maybe, Chace, but you’ll be here.” He went silent. Then he whispered.
“Yeah, I’ll be here.”
Yeah.
He would.”
Source: Breathe
“Promise has faith as premise.
Only men of faith can promise.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Promise?” I ask.
He nods and stretches his arm out, holding up a gloved pinky across the distance. I take it and we pinky promise. The smallest contact, but the first time we’ve ever touched.
- Stella Grant”
Source: Five Feet Apart
“Promise is more worthy than Time and Money.”
“Promise is most given when the least is said.”
Source: The Works of George Chapman: Poems and Minor Translations
“Promise is one thing. Fulfilling that promise is quite another.”
“Promise is the capacity for letting people down.”
Source: Enemies of Promise
“Promise me forever, Thane,” she said. “Forever and always,” he said against her lips. “I will never stop loving you. I will never stop craving you.”
Source: Long Live the Elf Queen
“Promise me, if this is the end of us, let it be the beginning of the revolution.”
Source: The Watchers: The Tomb
“Promise me, Moonflower. If we are attacked, you will run. Do not try to fight. Do not let them take you.”
Source: The Road of Bones
“Promise me.”
“No.”
Etan’s eyes were glassy with tears. “Coward. If I were dying, you’d promise me. Because you wouldn’t have to answer to me then. But I’m not dying, and you won’t promise it. Bloody coward.”
Source: The Crimson Campaign
“Promise me. No more doubts. No more buts. No more putting your feelings on the back burner. No more secrets.”
Source: Wings Against The Wind
“Promise me no promises,
So will I not promise you:
Keep we both our liberties,
Never false and never true:
Let us hold the die uncast,
Free to come as free to go:
For I cannot know your past,
And of mine what can you know?”
“Promise me now and I'll promise us forever.”
“Promise me one thing. Whatever happens, when you get back to Olympus, when you’re a god again, remember. Remember what it’s like to be human.”
Source: The Burning Maze
“Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed.”
“promise me, Sam: whatever it takes to win, whatever it takes to survive.”
“Astrid—”
Suddenly she grabbed his face with one hand and squeezed too hard. “You listen to me. I’m not losing you because you played fair. You’re not getting killed. You’re not dying. This isn’t some doomed last mission. Do you understand me? This does not end with me crying and missing you every day for the rest of my life. This ends with us walking out of this nightmare together. You and me, Sam.”
Source: Light
“Promise me something,' she said.
'I'll promise you anything I can without lying to you again.'
Pearl nodded. 'If magic really does exist, and you really can erase my memory, and I let you do it- you have to promise to come find me again once you're safe. You have to promise me to tell me everything that happened, and tell me again about your parents, and the books. Fill in all the blanks. I don't want to forget forever. I want to know.' She took a shuddering breath. 'But I don't think I can handle knowing right now. Alone.'
Esther wanted this to be a promise she could keep. 'Yes,' she said. 'I promise.'
'Swear it to me,' said Pearl, extending her little finger, but instead Esther uncurled her other fingers and pressed a kiss to her palm.
'I swear it.”
Source: Ink Blood Sister Scribe
“Promise me,” Tarekh says in a low voice. When I glance over, he continues. “Promise me that if she’s dead, you’ll put an end to me, too. I won’t live knowing that I failed her.”
Source: Enticed By The Corsair