All Quotes

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
‐‐ Miguel de Cervantes

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
‐‐ James Howell

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
‐‐ Leo Rosten

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
‐‐ Alphonse de Lamartine

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
‐‐ Thornton Wilder

Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.
‐‐ Bernie Worrell

Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
‐‐ Abbe Pierre

Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups.
‐‐ Michael Shermer

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.
‐‐ Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Providing all Latin-American children with the education and early childhood development that they need is in the best interest of all, so it has to be a priority for all of us, not only the government and civil society, but also the business sector.
‐‐ Shakira

Providing better computer science education in public schools to kids, and encouraging girls to participate, is the only way to rewrite stereotypes about tech and really break open the old-boys' club.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes

Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.
‐‐ John Baldacci

Providing 'freemium' cloud storage to society is not a crime. What will Hollywood do when smartphones and tablets can wirelessly transfer a movie file within milliseconds?
‐‐ Kim Dotcom

Providing great schooling is the single most important thing we can do to help any child from a disadvantaged background succeed. It's also the single most important thing we can do to boost the long-term productivity of our economy.
‐‐ George Osborne

Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination.
‐‐ Atul Gawande

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.
‐‐ Paul Rand

Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.
‐‐ Shigeru Miyamoto

Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare.
‐‐ Timothy Murphy

Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.
‐‐ Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Providing working Minnesotans with at least seven days of paid sick leave every year is the right thing to do to. It benefits our families and helps our businesses become more worker friendly and family friendly.
‐‐ Mark Dayton

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.
‐‐ Stockwell Day

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.
‐‐ Sheena Easton

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.
‐‐ Richard E. Grant

Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by.
‐‐ Laurie Colwin

Provision must be made for the extension of speedy and effective assistance when any African State is threatened with military aggression. We cannot rely solely on international morality.
‐‐ Haile Selassie

Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies.
‐‐ James F. Byrnes

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
‐‐ Charles Horton Cooley

Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.
‐‐ John Ortberg

Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
‐‐ John Ortberg

Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush.
‐‐ John Ortberg

Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It's what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general.
‐‐ John Ortberg

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.
‐‐ Charles Churchill

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.
‐‐ Mary Wortley Montagu

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
‐‐ Stendhal

Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
‐‐ Donald Rumsfeld

Psephology isn't a hate crime.
‐‐ Ken Livingstone

Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
‐‐ Cara Delevingne

Psy is fantastic. He's shifted the planet. He's got the whole world dancing. And it's a rarity in this world. Only four people made that happen in history - James Brown, Michael Jackson, yours truly and Psy.
‐‐ MC Hammer

Psych yourself up until you're confident that the world will be interested in what happens to your characters. Confidence is key.
‐‐ Deborah Moggach

Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.
‐‐ Thomas Szasz

Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.
‐‐ Trisha Goddard

Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.
‐‐ Victoria Abril

Psychiatry causes so much death.
‐‐ Kate Millett

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
‐‐ Laurence J. Peter

Psychics can never be 100 percent. I think that would be scary to be 100 percent.
‐‐ Sylvia Browne

Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties.
‐‐ Hilary Mantel

Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure.
‐‐ Joseph Stefano

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.
‐‐ Thomas Mann