All Quotes

Proper names are rigid designators.
‐‐ Saul Kripke

Proper school nutrition must be complemented by activities outside of the cafeteria. The decisions parents make to keep their kids healthy are critical in fighting this battle on the home front.
‐‐ Tom Vilsack

Proper stance and movement are obviously genetically old, environment-resistant behaviours. Misuse, with all its psychosomatic or, rather, somato-psychic consequences, must therefore be considered a result of modern living conditions - of a culturally determined stress.
‐‐ Nikolaas Tinbergen

Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.
‐‐ Peter Thiel

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
‐‐ Pierre Bayle

Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.
‐‐ B. F. Skinner

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
‐‐ Ezra Pound

Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
‐‐ Barry Sternlicht

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.
‐‐ Robert Dale Owen

Property is a nuisance.
‐‐ Paul Erdos

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
‐‐ Lord Acton

Property is organized robbery.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
‐‐ John Adams

Property is theft.
‐‐ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
‐‐ Plautus

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
‐‐ Roger Babson

Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.
‐‐ Robert Dale Owen

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
‐‐ Benjamin Cardozo

Prophecy is an intercept from the mind of an all-knowing and all-seeing and all-powerful God.
‐‐ Joel C. Rosenberg

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
‐‐ Mark Twain

Prophets have no other purpose, no other mission except to serve God.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign that reads 'The End Is Near,' passersby will laugh and heckle. People will say you're like Chicken Little, running around telling people the sky is falling.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

Proponents of efficiency standards argue that they save consumers and businesses money, reduce energy use, and reduce emissions. But families and businesses already understand how energy costs impact their lives and make decisions accordingly.
‐‐ Gina McCarthy

Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection.
‐‐ Francis Collins

Proponents of privatization argued that cities and states needed private capital to fund all the upgrades that our decaying infrastructure so desperately needed.
‐‐ Bethany McLean

Proponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents 'radical' and 'extremist.' However, given that no society in thousands of years has allowed same-sex marriage, it is, by definition, the proponents of same-sex marriage whose position is radical and extreme.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor.
‐‐ Stephen F. Lynch

Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.
‐‐ Vitruvius

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
‐‐ Arne Jacobsen

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.
‐‐ John McCarthy

Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the 'real world.'
‐‐ Parker Palmer

Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.
‐‐ George Soros

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
‐‐ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Proprietary programming like news can be a great weapon.
‐‐ Alan Gerry

Proprietary software grew up, starting really in the 1980s, as an alternative and that became the dominant model with the rise of companies like Microsoft and Oracle and the like.
‐‐ Tim O'Reilly

Proprietary software is an injustice.
‐‐ Richard Stallman

Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the users can't change it since they don't have the source code. They can't study what it really does. So the proprietary program is a system of unjust power.
‐‐ Richard Stallman

Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users don't have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.
‐‐ Richard Stallman

Proprietary stock-index arbitrage is but one aspect of program trading. Arbitrage will take place whenever there is an imbalance created in one or more markets that are similar.
‐‐ John Gutfreund

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
‐‐ Robert Graves

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.
‐‐ Mary Karr

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
‐‐ Ernest Hemingway

Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something.
‐‐ Bill Callahan

Prose is not so dependent on sound. The line of poetry, with the breaking of the line - to me, sound is the kind of doorway into poetry. And my sense of sound, or my ability to control it, lapsed or grew less.
‐‐ Donald Hall

Prose is something that is persistent in staying in one place long enough to not only zero in on the dramatic effect of something that might have happened, or something that might have been seen, but also in watching how it played out and thinking about the cause and the effect.
‐‐ Tracy K. Smith

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.
‐‐ Gunter Grass

Prose talks and poetry sings.
‐‐ Franz Grillparzer

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
‐‐ Laurence Housman