All Quotes

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.
‐‐ Robert Creeley

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.
‐‐ Edwin Louis Cole

The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building of counters or a system like that.
‐‐ John Henry Carver

The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
‐‐ Illinois Jacquet

The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff.
‐‐ Charles Stross

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.
‐‐ Herbert Hoover

The pavilion that seems to intercept divine aid does not cover God but occasionally covers us. God is never hidden, yet sometimes we are, covered by a pavilion of motivations that draw us away from God and make Him seem distant and inaccessible.
‐‐ Henry B. Eyring

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.
‐‐ Howard Staunton

The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.
‐‐ Zebulon Pike

The PAWS Act is a simple bill that could have a dramatic - and potentially life-saving - effect on the lives of many.
‐‐ Ron DeSantis

The pay is good and I can walk to work.
‐‐ John F. Kennedy

The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.
‐‐ Justin Welby

The payment for certain sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.
‐‐ Shawn Ryan

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.
‐‐ Shawn Ryan

The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.
‐‐ Nassau William Senior

The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.
‐‐ James Monroe

The payoff of a customer-centric approach to software and digital product design is substantial and long-lasting for both companies and their customers.
‐‐ Alan Cooper

The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.
‐‐ Kathie Lee Gifford

The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else.
‐‐ Michael Arrington

The payroll tax is affecting sales. It's causing sales declines.
‐‐ Fred DeLuca

The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
‐‐ Taufik Hidayat

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.
‐‐ Bill Gates

The PC is becoming a truck. Everybody is using a tablet and a phone.
‐‐ Brad D. Smith

The PC is successful because we're all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs.
‐‐ Gabe Newell

The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.
‐‐ Tom Hayden

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve.
‐‐ Solomon Ortiz

The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.
‐‐ Sargent Shriver

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.
‐‐ Sargent Shriver

The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.
‐‐ John McCarthy

The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
‐‐ Randy Travis

The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.
‐‐ Che Guevara

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.
‐‐ James Weldon Johnson

The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also bred a certain detachment, a sense that the world was a place to explore rather than truly inhabit. This manifested as a kind of shyness, even timidity.
‐‐ Scott Anderson

The pedicure is beside the point - the rub is all I care about. And not just my feet, my calves and thighs. There is nothing better, except maybe a scalp massage.
‐‐ Amy Landecker

The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy.
‐‐ Norm Coleman

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.
‐‐ George Dennison Prentice

The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.
‐‐ Billy Collins

The pen is mightier than the sword.
‐‐ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
‐‐ Marty Feldman

The pen is mightier than the sword, and is considerably easier to write with.
‐‐ Marty Feldman

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.
‐‐ Graham Swift

The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game.
‐‐ Howard Staunton

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
‐‐ Nancy Astor

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
‐‐ Mary Wilson Little