All Quotes

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.
‐‐ Pat Riley

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
‐‐ Carl Jung

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.
‐‐ Robert Musil

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
‐‐ John Stuart Mill

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?
‐‐ Rudolf Nureyev

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.
‐‐ Maurice Jarre

A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator.
‐‐ Romesh Gunesekera

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.
‐‐ Romola Garai

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
‐‐ Fawn M. Brodie

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren't proud of what you're doing, why should anybody else be?
‐‐ Richard Branson

A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
‐‐ Tom Peters

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
‐‐ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.
‐‐ Dean Kamen

A patient healthy enough to undergo a kidney transplant might someday no longer need dialysis. That would free up a slot for a new patient.
‐‐ Sheri Fink

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
‐‐ Edward Abbey

A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial.
‐‐ David A. Bednar

A peace agreement isn't like a fairy story. You don't live happily ever after.
‐‐ Jonathan Powell

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.
‐‐ Richard Holbrooke

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
‐‐ Jack Ma

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
‐‐ Henry Van Dyke

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.
‐‐ Pope John XXIII

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
‐‐ Rita Mae Brown

A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.
‐‐ George Wald

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
‐‐ John Berger

A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.
‐‐ Manny Farber

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

A pen is different from the pad, the key, moving your fingers across a screen. I like both. I like to work on sketchbooks, big old white sketch paper. I like how that feels, and I like to put different media on it. Then there's the phone, smartphone, iPad: It's the new page, and it's not the same page anymore.
‐‐ Juan Felipe Herrera

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
‐‐ J. R. R. Tolkien

A penalty is a cowardly way to score.
‐‐ Pele

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno

A penny saved is a penny earned.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.
‐‐ Mary Landrieu

A penny saved is two pence clear.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you're managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
‐‐ Rudyard Kipling

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
‐‐ B. R. Ambedkar

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.
‐‐ Annie Besant

A people cannot exist if there is no social solidarity.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
‐‐ Oliver Ellsworth

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.
‐‐ Alice Walker

A people fatigued by bad presidential judgment aren't inclined to reward him or his party.
‐‐ Monica Crowley

A people free to choose will always choose peace.
‐‐ Ronald Reagan

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
‐‐ Benazir Bhutto

A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.
‐‐ Jefferson Davis

A people must have dignity and identity.
‐‐ Andrew Goodman

A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep.
‐‐ Bjornstjerne Bjornson

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
‐‐ Edith Hamilton

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.
‐‐ John Henrik Clarke