P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.”
“Put an end to so great an evil and arrive at a peace settlement whatever the outcome, and whatever the conditions.”
“Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.”
“Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.”
“Put anger aside. It is not a solution. Patience and love is a solution. With compassion and action, together we can end slavery.”
“Put another way: I don't know what's going to happen on Election Day, other than the fact that the election won't be the only thing I'm thinking about- as November 5, 2024, also marks the ten-year anniversary of the death of my mother: a milestone so striking, it seems impossible to me even as I write it. And guess what? I won't be the only person in this country with something else on my mind that day, either.”
Source: I Used to Like You Until...: How Binary Thinking Divides Us
“Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.”
Source: The Third Chimpanzee
“Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in the Pacific and a single sailor managed to swim to a desert island, would he be pleased to see, ten minutes later, another sailor emerging from the surf? Quite possibly - but only if the new arrival accepted that the first man was now a landed aristocrat while he himself was an illegal immigrant.”
Source: Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life
“Put any woman in an area run mostly by men and rumors will fly. Unless you make it very clear that you are off limits, there is also a certain competitiveness that sets in. Some men are either trying to run you out of town or get into your pants. They don't seem to know any other way to deal with a woman. If you're not a sexual object, you're a threat.”
Source: Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Put aside all the things they deem "wrong" and simply write. Conscious writing comes from within, so at the end of the day, its your "word" not theirs.”
“Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.”
“Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend.”
“Put aside your pride,
Set down your arrogance,
And remember your grave.”
“Put away evil from your flesh.”
“Put away evil from your heart, then can you make your heart right with God.”
“Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.”
Source: Commentaries on Living 1
“Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be. When you love, everything will come right. Love has its own action.”
“Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)
“Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five
“Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.”
“Put bluntly, failure attracts more money than success. Politically, failure becomes a reason to demand more money...”
Source: Black Rednecks and White Liberals
“Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works - but our lives refute our faith.”
Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“Put bluntly, the ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. All Forms are not other than Emptiness, including the form of the ego. It is not necessary to get rid of the ego, but simply to live with it a certain exuberance.”
Source: The Essential Ken Wilber
“Put, "Cabbage Day", on your calendar today!”
“Put character and mental toughness before execution and you will get consistent execution.”
“Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age.”
“Put cream and sugar on a fly and it tastes very much like a raspberry.”
“Put crudely, adaptations evolve most strongly when the going gets tough.”
Source: The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
“Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual integrity married to artistic banality-or, worse, art compromised on both counts. Neither one will satisfy those who recognize the fundamental necessity of integrity in both faith and art.”
“Put differently, the rhetoric of Williams’ different body isn’t just sexist – it’s profoundly racist.”
Source: Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."
(Casual Chance, 1964)”
“Put down me for a lifetime of success: give me credit, I'll find ways of paying.”
“Put down that bag of potato chips, that white bread, that bottle of pop.
Turn off that cellphone, computer, and remote control.
Open the door, then close it behind you.
Take a breath offered by friendly winds. They travel the earth gathering essences of plants to clean.
Give it back with gratitude.”
Source: Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
“Put down the pen someone else gave you.
No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.”
“Put down the Technicolor ones. No freaking way."
"But blue's my favorite color," I say, batting my eyelashes at him.
"Put them down.”
Source: My Life Next Door
“Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.”
Source: The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship
“Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. Pay attention to everything in the world as if it's alive. Realize everything has its own discrete existence outside your story. By doing this, you open to gifts and lessons that the world has to give you.”
“Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last. All the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves. Everything is waiting for you.”
Source: The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship
“Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own spirit, your heart, your mind. Feel the joy of being alive and free.”
“Put down your glass,
it is time to dance.
If you want to get drunk
all you need is to drink love.
Put down your pipe
and do away with these childish toys.
If you want to get high
all you need is to breathe love.
Now,
can I have this dance?”
“Put down your smartphone, smell the roses, and—as
Gandalf instructs King Théoden when the latter emerges from Wormtongue’s hypnotic spell in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of Tolkien—‘breathe the free air again, my friend.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“Put down your stones.
Why are you breaking the window
when God has left the door wide open?
If you are afraid, lover,
follow me.
I will guide the way.”
“Put 'em who threaten possessions and power together with 'em who offend our tastes in sex and dope. Those who're touched, put 'em in asylums. Pack off old ones to 'senior communities,' nursing homes. Our children? Keep'em prisoner, baby-sitter as warden. School? Good for fifteen to twenty years. Army afterward. Liberated, we live in prison. No this, no that. Kill us before we die!”
Source: M: Writings '67–'72
“Put emotions to thoughts. Thoughts to words. Words to paragraphs. Paragraphs to pictures. Let your mind be known, heard and seen. Your thoughts are real as it could be.”
“Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.”
“Put every great teacher in a room, and they'd agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything.”
“Put every light you have on a dimmer. Because after a certain age, we can play with the lighting and set it on how you look best on it. Its cheaper than plastic surgery.”
“Put faith in one who's had experience.”
“Put fire into your workout any you burn off worry and frustration!”
“Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.”