All Quotes

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
‐‐ Aesop

Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.
‐‐ Daniel Alarcon

Peru, Peru. My heart's lighthouse.
‐‐ Morrissey

Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history.
‐‐ Nobu Matsuhisa

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.
‐‐ Pietro Aretino

Perusing colorful storylines on the backs of book jackets, I realized that none of them could possibly be as dramatic as my life to date. Then sadly, I also realized I could never find the ending of my story from the safety of an armchair.
‐‐ Sarah Kay

Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
‐‐ L'Wren Scott

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
‐‐ Pope John Paul II

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.
‐‐ Harvey Mackay

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
‐‐ Golda Meir

Pessimism is my default setting.
‐‐ Miranda Hart

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
‐‐ Bernard DeVoto

Pessimism is rife in Israel.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

Pessimism never won any battle.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.
‐‐ Antonio Gramsci

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.
‐‐ Francis Parker Yockey

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
‐‐ Arnold Bennett

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.
‐‐ David Rakoff

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
‐‐ Elias Canetti

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
‐‐ James A. Baldwin

Pessimists are toxic. I love optimists - and by that, I don't mean people who are unable to see challenges. Optimists are solution-oriented.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.
‐‐ Sean O'Faolain

Pesto is such a great standard. It's so simple to make and always tastes good.
‐‐ Tamra Davis

Pet foods come in a variety of flavors because that's what humans like, and we assume our pets like what we like. We're wrong.
‐‐ Mary Roach

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.
‐‐ Tony Snow

Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want.
‐‐ Connie Stevens

Pet stores just sell their animals.
‐‐ Booboo Stewart

PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.
‐‐ Bea Arthur

PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
‐‐ Ingrid Newkirk

Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He's a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling.
‐‐ Paul Watson

Pete Davidson - he's in the movie 'Trainwreck.' He has a small part in it. I told Lorne Michaels about him, said he was really funny.
‐‐ Bill Hader

Pete Dj Jones was the first person that I saw with 2 turntables. This was 1972.
‐‐ Kurtis Blow

Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.
‐‐ Jack Nicklaus

Pete Moffat writes crime conspiracy thrillers so beautifully. He goes places other people wouldn't; he is fearless.
‐‐ Alistair Petrie

Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.
‐‐ Steve Carlton

Pete Rose is the most likable arrogant person I've ever met.
‐‐ Mike Schmidt

Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Pete Townshend is one of my greatest influences. More than any other guitarist, he taught me how to play rhythm guitar and demonstrated its importance, particularly in a three-piece band.
‐‐ Alex Lifeson

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.
‐‐ Ritchie Blackmore

Pete Wentz was the Justin Bieber of 2007. Girls loved him; they obsessed over him.
‐‐ Ashton Irwin

Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.
‐‐ Adam McKay

'Peter and the Starcatcher' is the most amazing piece of theater I think I've ever seen. It made we want to be a kid again and made me want to pretend, which I do on a nightly basis.
‐‐ Steve Kazee

Peter Baltes was the best bassist I ever played with.
‐‐ Don Dokken

Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.
‐‐ Terry Southern

Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend.
‐‐ Noah Baumbach

Peter Boyle on Everybody Loves Raymond is more of an insane Dad.
‐‐ Kurtwood Smith

Peter Breggin, an American psychiatrist, had been criticising SSRIs since the early 1990s. He wrote 'Talking Back to Prozac' (1995) to repudiate psychiatrist Peter Kramer's 'Listening to Prozac' (1993) - a bestseller which claimed that Prozac made patients 'better than well.'
‐‐ John Cornwell

Peter Chelsom and Edgar Wright are totally different directors and worlds apart, but both really accomplished directors who are certain of how they want to make a film.
‐‐ Rosamund Pike