All Quotes

Prometheus - trickster, rebel and hero - links the realm of the gods with the world of humanity, with which he had such close affinity. His act of stealing fire has been viewed as the foundation of all man's technologies.
‐‐ Neil MacGregor

'Prometheus' was a great experience for me.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.
‐‐ Barbara Kruger

Prominent scientists have become increasingly convinced that the connection between carbon emissions and rising temperatures is real, but skeptics have whole truckloads of studies to demonstrate the opposite.
‐‐ David Ignatius

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
‐‐ Jacki Weaver

Promise a lot and give even more.
‐‐ Anthony J. D'Angelo

Promise is most given when the least is said.
‐‐ George Chapman

Promise Keepers was looking for a movement that can actualize the hope of Jesus, the hope that we see. And 'Uprising' was what they were looking for.
‐‐ Erwin McManus

Promise keeping is a powerful means of grace in a time when people hardly depend on each other to remember and live by their word.
‐‐ Lewis B. Smedes

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
‐‐ A. A. Milne

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.
‐‐ Anthony J. D'Angelo

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
‐‐ Norman Vincent Peale

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
‐‐ Hannah Arendt

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

Promising something that seems popular at the time that you know you're never going to deliver - that's the kind of cynical politics that I don't want any part of.
‐‐ Justin Trudeau

Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.
‐‐ Robyn Hitchcock

Promoting a stock is like making a movie. You've got to have stars, props, and a good script.
‐‐ Robert Friedland

Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book is fundamental.
‐‐ Sasha Grey

Promoting healthy lifestyles and encouraging fitness are so important for our children's development and reducing the nation's epidemic of childhood obesity.
‐‐ Marcia Fudge

Promoting job creation and economic growth in the Hudson Valley is one of my top priorities in Congress.
‐‐ Sue Kelly

Promoting the interaction of orders remains one of the most difficult, but crucially important, challenges we face concerning our national market system.
‐‐ Arthur Levitt

Promoting the use of sustainable and renewable rainforest products can help to stop rainforest devastation. The rainforests are much more valuable alive than cut or burned, providing a steady supply of medicinal plants, fruits, nuts and oils.
‐‐ Chris Kilham

Promoting tolerance and human dignity is one of mankind's unfinished challenges.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

Promotions are the worst part of making a movie. We are actors and not salesmen. Still, you have to go to so many places to try and sell the movie.
‐‐ Ranbir Kapoor

Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'
‐‐ Vidya Balan

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
‐‐ Charles Simmons

Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.
‐‐ Leo Szilard

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.
‐‐ Conor Oberst

'Proof' is a really cool pilot that I was lucky enough to read by Rob Braggin for TNT that's about a surgeon who's an agnostic, tough, grounded, scientific mind and she's hired by a Steve Jobs-type who's just been diagnosed with cancer to focus on near death experiences and what happens when you die.
‐‐ Alex Graves

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
‐‐ Arthur Eddington

Proof of the black hole is a tremendous amount of mass inside a very small volume. There's 4 million times the mass of our sun within a region that's comparable to the size of our solar system.
‐‐ Andrea M. Ghez

Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.
‐‐ Delphine de Girardin

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people's attention, then maybe they'll go and find out more about the person.
‐‐ Shepard Fairey

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
‐‐ Christopher Lasch

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.
‐‐ John Berger

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
‐‐ Jean Anouilh

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.
‐‐ Alice Walker

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.
‐‐ Christian Lous Lange

Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
‐‐ John Berger

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
‐‐ Hubert H. Humphrey

Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.
‐‐ Pranab Mukherjee

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.
‐‐ Michael Gove

Proper love should be utterly supportive and comfortable, and it feels like a raincoat or a jacket potato.
‐‐ Olivia Colman