All Quotes

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.
‐‐ James Mark Baldwin

The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin

The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.
‐‐ Amar Bose

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
‐‐ George Bancroft

The Premier League is the best league in the world; it's so strong. The smaller teams love to try their chances against the big ones, and this is why the game goes back and forth. That can be strenuous, tough on you and your body, but I really love it.
‐‐ Mesut Ozil

The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.
‐‐ Fernando Torres

The premieres are, kind of exciting, especially to Ella, who loves limousines.
‐‐ Kelly Preston

The premise for me has always been that it's vulnerable people who do violent things. And the more vulnerable they feel, often, the more violent they are. But I think, you know, that's an idea that comes from history, from classical theater, for me.
‐‐ Liev Schreiber

The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent.
‐‐ Dennis Weaver

The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it's sometimes found and sometimes not.
‐‐ Chris Crutcher

The premise of 'Descent' may sound pretty straightforward: One summer morning while vacationing with her family in the foothills of the Rockies, a young girl, a high-school athlete in her senior year, goes out for a run in the higher altitudes - and disappears.
‐‐ Alan Cheuse

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.
‐‐ Jonah Goldberg

The premise of my whole campaign has been not that people need to believe what I say to them, but they need to look at what I have done. And what I have done in the state of Nevada, I have voted over a 100 times against tax and fee increases, poor public policy, and unconstitutional bills.
‐‐ Sharron Angle

The premise of 'Secret Coders' is reminiscent of 'Harry Potter.' An intrepid band of tweens stumbles upon a secret school, only instead of teaching magic, the school teaches coding.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang

The premise of 'The Originals' are places that have been open 50, 60, 75, 100 years or longer that are still doing it right that maybe a lot of people, particularly the younger generations, have not even thought about.
‐‐ Emeril Lagasse

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
‐‐ Melinda Gates

The premium single-cup segment is the fastest-growing business within the global coffee industry.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

The prenup needs to be drawn up months before the wedding, not days - it's not something you slap together and sign in the car on the way to the ceremony. A shotgun prenup might not hold up in court.
‐‐ Suze Orman

The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.
‐‐ Edmund Morgan

The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.
‐‐ Nigel Mansell

The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.
‐‐ Harlan Coben

The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.
‐‐ Hayden Fry

The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.
‐‐ Russel Honore

The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.
‐‐ Zebulon Pike

The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.
‐‐ Thomas Bulfinch

The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic.
‐‐ Tommy Hilfiger

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
‐‐ Arthur Koestler

The Prescription Drug Benefit we passed in Congress is already working to make prescription drugs available and affordable for all seniors who depend on them, through the drug card that became available last year.
‐‐ Mark Kennedy

The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe.
‐‐ John Conyers

The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.
‐‐ C. J. Mahaney

The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

The presence of the Holy Spirit is the keystone of all our hopes.
‐‐ John Nelson Darby

The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.
‐‐ Christopher Dawson

The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.
‐‐ Alain Resnais

The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people.
‐‐ Shimon Peres

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.
‐‐ John Desmond Bernal

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.
‐‐ Stephen J. Field

The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.
‐‐ Joseph Rotblat

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
‐‐ Henri Bergson

The present danger which this country faces is at least as great as the danger which we faced during the war with Germany and Japan. Briefly stated, it is the very real danger that this country, as we know it, may cease to exist.
‐‐ James Forrestal

The present fashion system is too hard - there are too many collections. The designers have no time to think! Money is too important. Schedules are too crazy.
‐‐ Azzedine Alaia

The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.
‐‐ Peter Maxwell Davies

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.
‐‐ Penelope Lively

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
‐‐ John Jay Chapman

The present is a point just passed.
‐‐ David Russell

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
‐‐ Frank Lloyd Wright

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal