A puny body weakens the soul.
‐‐ Paul Cezanne
A pupil is a great resource.
‐‐ Hudson Stuck
A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
‐‐ Josh Billings
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
‐‐ James Madison
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
‐‐ Nathaniel Hawthorne
A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.
‐‐ George Oppen
A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.
‐‐ Howard Fineman
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
‐‐ David Hume
A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
‐‐ Charles B. Rangel
A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.
‐‐ Charles Sanders Peirce
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
‐‐ Saint Francis de Sales
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing.
‐‐ Charlie Trotter
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.
‐‐ Italo Calvino
A quarter of my life has been spent on 'Secret Life.' I'm 20 and I've been doing it for five years, so I think the best moments have been when all the cast members get to work together and we get to collaborate and share experiences. We all grew up together.
‐‐ Shailene Woodley
A quarterback that goes out and performs for you and is a franchise quarterback is more valuable than a player playing another position, but there's a lot more risk there. It's a more difficult position to play, and there are lot more failures.
‐‐ Bob McNair
A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how high I don't know, but at least as far and high as Yosemite tourists.
‐‐ John Muir
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.
‐‐ Conrad Black
A question I get asked a lot is 'What is it like to play the straight guy all the time?' And I'm totally okay with it.
‐‐ Rashida Jones
A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggle and empathize and doubt and believe. The question moves, whereas our sense of what an answer is can often be static, a stopping point.
‐‐ Tracy K. Smith
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
‐‐ Albert Einstein
A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.
‐‐ James Randi
A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.
‐‐ Michael Medved
A quick shallow fry is a great way to transform leftovers, and no more so than in the case of risotto.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
‐‐ Bruce Lee
A quiet impression could be a personal instruction from the Lord. It is personal and private. It comes from the Lord. Why is it important to keep sacred writings private? Because then He will give us more.
‐‐ Richard G. Scott
A quiet mind cureth all.
‐‐ Robert Burton
A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.
‐‐ Bill Budge
A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.
‐‐ Ben Elliot
A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.
‐‐ Jacques Santer
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
‐‐ Brendan Behan
A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.
‐‐ Kailash Kher
A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.
‐‐ Louis Finkelstein
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
‐‐ Jimmy Cannon
A race cannot be purified from without.
‐‐ Anna Julia Cooper
A race driver needs to be quick, to be intelligent, to have good relationships and be in the right place at the right time. There are a lot of factors that would create a successful race driver.
‐‐ Bruno Senna
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
‐‐ Steve Prefontaine
A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
‐‐ J. Philippe Rushton
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
‐‐ Gore Vidal
A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
‐‐ Saul Alinsky
A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.
‐‐ Mario Andretti
A racing driver has to be a good driver.
‐‐ Emerson Fittipaldi
A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
‐‐ A. J. P. Taylor
A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton
A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.
‐‐ Stanislav Grof
A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.
‐‐ Janis Ian
A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work.
‐‐ Hermann von Helmholtz