P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.”
“Public shaming is a blood sport that has to stop.”
“Public sharing is an important part of science.”
“Public smiles, private suffering. That’s what we do.”
“Public space can be a lot better with some private space to contradict it and vice versa. It keeps the system alive. If the system is just one thing, then it's closed and it eventually dies.”
“Public space is for living, doing business, kissing, and playing. Its value can't be measured with economics or mathematics; it must be felt with the soul.”
“Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.”
“Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.”
“Public speaking is only bad if your clothes don’t fit correctly.”
“Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.”
“Public speaking is the ultimate battle between your brain and your vocal cords. It's like your mind turns into a circus ringmaster, juggling sweaty palms, a pounding heart, and a brain that's suddenly gone AWOL. But hey, don’t let those jitters steal the spotlight! With a pinch of humor and a sprinkle of confidence, you can turn that stage fright into a standing ovation. So, take the mic, crack a joke (or two), and show that audience who’s boss.”
“Public Speaking is very easy.”
“Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.”
Source: Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
“Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!”
“Public spending on infrastructure has fallen to its lowest level since 1947. And the U.S., which used to have the finest infrastructure in the world, is now ranked 16th according to the World Economic Forum, behind Iceland, Spain, Portugal and the United Arab Emirates.”
“Public stigma
Stereotype Negative belief about a group (e.g., dangerousness, incompetence, character weakness)
Prejudice Agreement with belief and/or negative emotional reaction (e.g., anger, fear)
Discrimination Behavior response to prejudice (e.g., avoidance, withhold employment and housing opportunities, withhold help)
Self-stigma
Stereotype Negative belief about the self (e.g., character weakness, incompetence)
Prejudice Agreement with belief, negative emotional reaction (e.g., low self-esteem, low self-efficacy)
Discrimination Behavior response to prejudice (e.g., fails to pursue work and housing opportunities)
Understanding the impact of stigma on people with mental illness. World Psychiatry. Feb 2002; 1(1): 16–20.
PMCID: PMC1489832”
“Public support in the U.S. for the war against Iraq was founded on a multitiered edifice of falsehood and deceit, coordinated by the U.S. government and faithfully amplified by the corporate media.”
“Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it's about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked.”
“Public television goes dark only in two circumstances: when a country is occupied by foreign forces or when there is a coup.”
“Public toilets have a duty to be accessible, poetry does not.”
“Public torture, in seventeenth-century Europe, created searing, unforgettable spectacles of pain and suffering in order to convey the message that a system in which husbands could brutalize wives, and parents beat children, was ultimately a form of love. … It seems to us that this connection – or better perhaps confusion – between care and domination is utterly critical to the larger questions of how we lost the ability freely to recreate ourselves by recreating our relationships with one another. It is critical, that is , to understanding how we got stuck, and why these days we can hardly envisage our own past or future as anything other than a transition from smaller to larger cages.”
Source: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
“Public transit situates us so that we are given license to accept what's right in front of us, but will likely arouse our desire to compare our narrative to someone else's, to give ourselves permission to speculate upon a person's private space, or life, with no fear of recourse or punishment.”
Source: Seen Reading
“Public transport at 5am is nobody's idea of a good time, but buses in Madagascar are a whole other level of miserable. They are Spartan, to say the least. Getting a seat on these buses should be an Olympic sport”
Source: The Eucalyptus Tree
“Public transportation is for jerks and lesbians.”
“Public unions are the country's foremost advocates for increased taxes at all levels of government.”
“Public Utility Commission (PUC), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) complaints are rarely upheld. It is estimated that less than 5% of complaints are successful and that the actual number may be below 1% in some cases.”
“Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.”
“Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.”
Source: Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814
“Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this public passion must be superiour to all private passions.”
Source: Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814
“public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.”
Source: Pavements at Anderby: tales of
“Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.”
“Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.”
Source: Human action: a treatise on economics
“Public worship occurs when the people of God assemble for the express purpose of giving to the Lord the glory due His name and enjoying the joy of His promised special presence with His own people.”
“Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.”
“Public-Private Partnership in financing, service delivery and provision of workspaces and training of trainers must be promoted to meet the demand and supply gap in the field of skill development.”
“Publication - is the auction of the mind.”
Source: Dickinson
“Publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.”
Source: Endless horizons
“Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.”
“Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.”
“Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.”
“Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.”
“Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Publication is rather like pushing the boat out; then the boat/book turns into a melting ice floe and you have to conjure a second boat which again turns into a melting floe under your feet. All the stepping stones that you conjure disappear under the water behind you.”
“Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.”
“Publication there [in Nimbus] was to prove a turning point… The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was to be directly linked to the mini-collection in Nimbus, and his Collected Poems (1964)”
“Publications by the World Health Organization show that diphtheria is steadily declining in most European countries, including those in which there has been no immunization. The decline began long before vaccination was developed. There is certainly no guarantee that vaccination will protect a child against the disease; in fact, over 30,000 cases of diphtheria have been recorded in the United Kingdom in fully immunized children.”
Source: Vaccination And Immunisation: Dangers, Delusions and Alternatives (What Every Parent Should Know)
“Publications such as Forbes and Fortune continually rank Georgia cities as among the best places to live, work and run a business.”
“PUBLICISTA 3: ¡Se va usted a forrar a costa del televidente!
JEFE: Ya, aunque el público quizás piense...
PUBLICISTA 1: ¡Se equivoca completamente!
PUBLICISTA 2: ¡El público nunca piensa!
PUBLICISTA 3: ¡Ni queremos que lo haga!”
Source: Basura TV - Tecnozombies
“Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.”
“Publicity can become invasive at times.”