All Quotes

A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.
‐‐ Zac Goldsmith

A pound of Alaskan king crab legs and buffalo shrimp = happy Travie.
‐‐ Travie McCoy

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
‐‐ James A. Garfield

A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.
‐‐ John C. Calhoun

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.
‐‐ Charles Babbage

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
‐‐ Marcel Proust

A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.
‐‐ Marina Abramovic

A powerful studio boss doesn't want to be bested by a woman, even in chess. And a successful agent steps on a lot of toes. You lose actors jobs so you can get them for your own clients.
‐‐ Sue Mengers

A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
‐‐ Carolus Linnaeus

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.
‐‐ Edward Tufte

A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as a galactic society.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
‐‐ Phillips Brooks

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

A precedent embalms a principle.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

A precept or command is a general teaching of God, obligating every man under pain of mortal sin - namely, in cases in which he has fallen away from the command. Hence, the saints who for a period of their life lived hypocritically sinned mortally for that period. So also the damned, by persistent false living, sin persistently in Hell.
‐‐ Jan Hus

A pregnancy is a marvelous moment that I would love to repeat and repeat.
‐‐ Paz Vega

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.
‐‐ Barbara Mikulski

A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.
‐‐ Gordon W. Allport

A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety.
‐‐ Daniel Yergin

A premium support program is different than a voucher program. They're just fundamentally different.
‐‐ Jason Chaffetz

A preoccupation with theory has been a defensive response by academic biographers in this country, I submit, to the condescension of traditional humanists and social scientists pervading higher education for many years.
‐‐ David Levering Lewis

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.
‐‐ Daniel Goleman

A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and heap the flattery on academia - each of which Mr. Bush has signally failed to do.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

A president and a party that can provide insurance for 31 million more Americans is far preferable to most voters than a party that only says, 'No.'
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.
‐‐ Richard M. Nixon

A president can't go to every memorial service.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

A President cannot always be popular.
‐‐ Harry S Truman

A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

A President doesn't have a terribly long time to talk to people who are not really on the agenda.
‐‐ Erich Leinsdorf

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
‐‐ Harry S Truman

A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics.
‐‐ Anibal Cavaco Silva

A president is always cosseted by his staff.
‐‐ Monica Crowley

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
‐‐ Max Lerner

A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.
‐‐ Monica Crowley

A president must be on the job 24/7, ready for any contingency, any crisis, anywhere, anytime.
‐‐ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

A president must serve only the common cause of the people of the United States.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
‐‐ Harry S Truman

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
‐‐ Lyndon B. Johnson

A president should look for what binds the people together rather than what drives them apart. As soon as you are identified with one side of the political map, you are no longer everybody's president.
‐‐ Dan Shechtman

A president shouldn't tell the judiciary what to do.
‐‐ Michel Temer

A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced.
‐‐ David Limbaugh

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.
‐‐ Al Gore

A presidential candidate's great desire is to be seen as pragmatic, and they hope their maneuvering and shifting will be seen in pursuit of some higher purpose. It doesn't mean they are utterly insincere.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.
‐‐ Ron Fournier

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.
‐‐ David Frum

A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.
‐‐ Jessica Savitch

A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.
‐‐ Francis J. Grimke

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
‐‐ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
‐‐ Thomas Moore