A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.
‐‐ Park Chan-wook
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
‐‐ Beverly Sills
A prime minister has to keep a certain balance when dealing with sensitive issues.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert
A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert
A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.
‐‐ Jack Layton
A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
‐‐ Grandma Moses
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
‐‐ Niccolo Machiavelli
A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
‐‐ George Savile
A princely mind will undo a private family.
‐‐ George Savile
'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated.
‐‐ Junot Diaz
A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.
‐‐ Andy Stanley
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi
A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.
‐‐ John Foxe
A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage.
‐‐ Elon Musk
A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.
‐‐ T. S. Kalyanaraman
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.
‐‐ Eleanor Robson Belmont
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
‐‐ Miguel de Cervantes
A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln
A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.
‐‐ Charles Tupper
A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.
‐‐ Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
‐‐ Dorothea Brande
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
‐‐ Duke Ellington
A problem shared is attention gained.
‐‐ Pippa Evans
A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together.
‐‐ Mohsen Makhmalbaf
A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.
‐‐ Charles Kettering
A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.
‐‐ Jill Lepore
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell
A producer gets the whole vision done from top to bottom, to making the record to having the record delivered to the world. That's a producer.
‐‐ DJ Khaled
A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting.
‐‐ Alan Ladd
A producer is always behind the scenes, even more in the movies - nobody sees you. I didn't even meet most of the actors. When I worked on 'Top Gun,' I never met Tom Cruise. You were always in the background.
‐‐ Giorgio Moroder
A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft service.
‐‐ Ryan Reynolds
A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.
‐‐ Kip Winger
A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
‐‐ Alan Arkin
A product is usually created to improve people's lives; otherwise, why buy it? I'm no genius, but I am an American, and gosh-darnit, I consume, so I know what I'm talking about.
‐‐ Steven Weber
A product name has to be specific. You know that Tasty Soup is tasty - that Hot Chips will burn off the roof of your mouth.
‐‐ Caroline Leavitt
A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
‐‐ Alistair Cooke
A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place.
‐‐ Red Grange
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
‐‐ Norman Schwarzkopf
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
‐‐ Richard Bach
A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken
A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people.
‐‐ N. R. Narayana Murthy
A profoundly disturbing thing you discover very quickly traveling in Cuba is that the most dangerous person for Cubans isn't the police or even the secret police; it's their neighbor. Anyone can report you for anything 'outside' the revolution - even if you haven't done it yet.
‐‐ Brin-Jonathan Butler
A program to make municipal composting of food and yard waste mandatory and then distributing the compost free to area farmers would shrink America's garbage heap, cut the need for irrigation and fossil-fuel fertilizers in agriculture, and improve the nutritional quality of the American diet.
‐‐ Michael Pollan
A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.
‐‐ Paul Graham
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
‐‐ Alan Perlis
A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken
A project like 'Rizzoli & Isles' is something you can't pursue. It's something that comes to you... I like to call it 'fairy dust.' And it happened without my having to do anything.
‐‐ Tess Gerritsen