P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.”
“Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?”
“Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.”
Source: The Works of Ben. Jonson: Underwoods. Timber; or, Discoveries made upon men and matter. Horace, Of the art of poetry [with an English translation by Jonson]. The English grammar. Leges convivales, rules for the Tavern Academy. The case is altered
“Passions are the driving forces that ignite your enthusiasm and propel you forward. They are the activities, causes, or pursuits that bring you joy and fulfillment. Identifying your passions provides clarity about what truly matters to you and what activities or endeavours you should prioritize in your life.”
“Passions are the gales of life.”
“Passions are the speech of our bodies, they are our vitality speaking.”
“Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.”
“Passions begin delicately and then they inflame the fire.”
“Passions change, politics are immutable.”
“Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.”
Source: Selected writings on art and literature
“Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.”
“Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.”
Source: Leviathan
“Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.”
Source: The Map of Life
“Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.”
“Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.”
“Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.”
Source: Why Men Fight
“Passive Aggression – Being covertly spiteful with the intent of inflicting mental pain.”
Source: Life Happens To Us: A True Story
“Passive-aggressive behavior is the art of saying one thing, meaning another.”
“Passive-aggressive behavior is the perverse art of letting someone know you’re not happy without actually telling them.”
“Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities, and to see the profits of our trade snatched from us, to enrich our enemies and persecutors. That unequalled spirit of enterprise . . . an inexhaustible mine of national wealth, would be stifled and lost; and poverty and disgrace would overspread a country, which, with wisdom, might make herself the admiration and envy of the world.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution
“passive consumption vs. active creation.
choose wisely”
“Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.”
“Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.”
“Passive Income: It's not just about real estate”
Source: The Money Tree: A Story about Finding the Fortune in Your Own Backyard
“PASSIVE PAVISSE-
ANAGRAM: Shield yourself from aggressors - Walk away without acknowledgement”
Source: Profound Vers-A-Tales
“Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity”
“Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.”
Source: Two Plays: Professor Taranne, Translated by Peter Meyer, and Ping Pong, Translated by Derek Prouse
“Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.”
Source: Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings
“Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.”
“Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.”
Source: Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings
“Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.”
Source: One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World
“Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.”
“Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive.”
“Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;
Consider the Empire and Gandhi.”
Source: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash
“Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug.”
Source: Drinking: A Love Story
“Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.”
“Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence.”
“Passivity is the same as defending injustice.”
“Passivity manifests in complaining and blaming because these behaviors are both self-focused and correlate to feelings of helplessness. These people are likely to make frequent complaints with the accompanying message that no one will do anything about them and make demands to mobilize feelings of guilt and responsibility in those around them. Their pain is, they tell you, the result of someone or something else outside of themselves (e.g., “You make me sad”; “All this noise makes me feel anxious”). This is not to say that a correlation does not exist, but a complete lack of ownership over one’s emotional state points to a mood disorder because, quite logically, if how we feel is directly determined by an external cause, then we, too, would become anxious and ultimately depressed.”
Source: Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
“Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.”
Source: Because We Say So
“Passo e amo e ardo
Água? Brisa? Luz?
Não sei. E tenho pressa;
Levo comigo uma criança
que nunca viu o mar.”
Source: Coração do Dia / Mar de Setembro
“Passo la mano sana tra i capelli e mi par di togliere strati di polvere dalla mia stessa vita.”
Source: Arcadia
“Passo ore a sentirmi
indistruttibile, a esser certo che nulla mi
tocchi, che nulla potrà ferirmi abbastanza da
farmi indietreggiare, e poi arrivi tu.”
Source: Prometo Falhar
“Passonate, irreverent, utterly relevant, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk offers an unforgettable portrait of a reluctant hero. Ben Fountain writes like a man inspired and his razor sharp exploration of our contemporary ironies will break your heart.”
“Passou quase uma semana desde a fuga de Larry Miller, preso há dezassete anos pelos macabros homicídios de doze jovens. Apesar do aparato policial, foi encontrado um corpo…”
Source: O Regresso de Larry Miller
“Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.”
“Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood, and smiting firstborn, give me a pass, and tell me when it's over.”
Source: Peace Kills
“Passover is very important to God. But satan HATES Passover. The enemy has worked diligently to steal Passover away. The good news is: God is restoring Passover. But it is a battle! The battle for Passover is the battle for the Blood. Satan wants to give us a bloodless religion, because a bloodless religion has no power. The power is in the Blood!”
“Passt sie zu dem, was ich bereits habe? Handele ich nur aus einer Laune heraus? Hat es für mich einen wirklichen Nutzen, oder macht mir einfach nur der Besitz an sich Freude?”
Source: Was ich vom Leben gelernt habe
“Password?” the door asks, the jaw of the skull moving with each word, as if it’s truly alive.
Val lets out an impatient huff. “Floccinaucinihilipilification,” he mutters.
“Bless you,” I snort.
"Cirio likes to use long words,”
Source: Liar Witch