List of Topics starting with [P]

Performance metrics are numbers in context, results are related to your strategic goals.

The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions and bring sustenance ...

It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those ...

Greenmantle took a swig of the wine directly fromt he bottle - when he'd selected it from the kitchen, he hadd thought it would look ...

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.

God's will for you is to make you more like Jesus. Christlikeness is your target, your goal, your vision, and the reason you were created. ...

This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody ...

Every time I see my brother, I just praise God for God's grace in his life. Because if God can change Franklin from a prodigal ...

As a chef and as a father, I am very upset by what's on the menu at most schools: chicken nuggets and tater tots and ...

I refuse to sit and wait for salvation. Every day I have looked to the sky for the white streak of a plane making its ...

The only pressure I feel is how I can contribute to help my team win the match. Of course, there is always the pressure to ...

People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time ...

The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.

You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.

Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always.

Shut it, Flynn. Just ... oh God, you've been impossible to evict, because possession is nine-tenths of the law. You're inside me. A part of ...

There are times when I love to play all kinds of complicated games in painting. But this is one case when I need to be ...

In a one-party system there is always a landslide.

Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that seemed ...

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but ...

Ignorance as a deliberate choice, can be used to reinforce prejudice and discrimination.

There exists in every person a place that is free from disease, that never feels pain, that cannot age or die. When you go to ...

Chief security officer on an OPA ship was a half-assed kind of position, one part cop, one part efficiency expert, and pretty much all den ...

Perfect God, Prince of Peace.

If the attitude of the teacher toward the material is positive, enthusiastic, committed and excited, the students get that. If the teacher is bored, students ...

What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the ...

Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors! How did they ...

Whatever may be my feelings of personal gratitude to the Navy of the United States, I feel myself under still greater obligations to them for ...

Patience is hard when your very soul cries for freedom.

Allan had always reasoned about religion that if you couldn't know for sure then there was no point in going around guessing.

Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

Marcie: Neurons that play together stay together, that is how we make connections.Danny: You want to play on my neural network? Are you sending me ...

My husband, children, and my family are my biggest supporters. I just pray to God to keep my family and I aligned at all times, ...

Loving Jesus is not a technique. Do not think about how you can communicate a passion for Jesus to others. Be passionate about him. Meditate ...

Wishful thinking won't make the Palestinians an Israeli peace partner, no matter how much President Barack Obama pressures Israel to make concessions; caustically mocking Putin's ...

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

Get up," James finally said, his tone indecipherable. "I don't need a patient dying from pneumonia on me tonight.

From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow ...

Life is a gift and it's meant for the living, and we dishonor our dead by squandering that gift in favor of the destructiveness of ...

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

When they hunt, every dog knows the position of every other dog. I wanted them to understand the duality of team and player. The strength ...

I think when people see photos of you out and about in your personal life, they assume that you've asked for it or that you ...

It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.

It's definitely hard when you're putting in the work and the guy who's starting isn't, especially if he's overhyped or you're not winning. I can't ...

[The Soviet State Security Service] is more than a secret police organization, more than an intelligence and counter-intelligence organization. It is an instrument for subversion, ...

The 24/7 nature of online debate, on the web and across social media, has allowed for more vibrant discussion of the opinions we publish - ...

If you would force me to be unarmed and helpless I would have to do everything in my power to neutralize you ... Peace and ...

I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. ...

Tonight, unhappy with your love, your job, your life, not enough money? Use your head. You can think yourself into a lot better you. Positive ...

Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot.

I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reasonBringing something we must learnAnd we are led to those who help us ...

Grace is false, and beauty is vain. A woman who fears God - she is praised. Give to her of the fruit of her hands, ...

I'm quite tactile, so I like fabrics that feel good. I try to avoid fabrics that crease - especially with my son. When you have ...

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, ...

Forgiving once is human, forgiving twice is Godlyness, forgiving the third time is cowardice.

My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they ...

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

I am the illegal alien of commentary. I will do the jokes that no one else will do.

PS ... ... confused from where you should start planning ... ... . !! Well, start from who you are, where you are and how ...

As you experience love and relationships, you start to realize that love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.

The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.

Because the past makes you who you are. I want to know why you're this way.

Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .

Once there was a moose, a very poor, thin, lonely moose who lived on a rocky hill where only bitter leaves grew and bushes with ...

There's magic in recognizing a kindred spirit, and an even greater power in letting yourself love them. When it scares you, let it - that's ...

A baby is a small member of the home that makes love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, the bank roll smaller, the home happier, the ...

Maybe the ability to confer attention to another person was not simply common courtesy, but was the fundamental act of humanity. When it came down ...

If women become too much like men, men lose purpose, meaning, and inspiration in life.

Perpetual Adoration, Eucharistic Adoration offers to our people the opportunity to join those in religious life to pray for the salvation of the world, souls ...

I think everyone is strong and weak in different ways.

Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares ...

These inbred pinheads are the only people you could find in the world to agree with your philosophies. (In reference to Wally George's largely redneck ...

When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,farewell cool reason and ...

It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the ...

The honest truth is that it was just traumatizing with the piano, with the authority of the piano teacher, getting rapped across the knuckles, and ...

Worship is not about having a fantastic voice.

I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a ...

Statesmen, men of science, philanthropists, the acknowledged benefactors of their race, might pass away, and yet not leave the void which will be caused by ...

But as a war time president James Madison did not display dynamic leadership. Andrew Jackson acknowledged Madison " a great civilian," but declared " the ...

He developed his revolutionary philosophy, with its grounding not in the Bible or ancient writers but in human reason, and became famous and infamous for ...

Her sister lifted her hands. 'No, I shouldn't. It's a private message for you.' B'it's for both of us,' she said, and pressed it into ...

God works with power, and can make the unwilling willing; if He undertakes the conversion of a soul, it will be converted. All the pious ...

Your image is your brand and you have only one opportunity to make that first impression. Choose to make a positive first impression.

Puff, the Magic Dragon, lived by the sea, and frolicked in the Autumn Mist in a land called Honah Lee, little Jacky Paper loved that ...

It's a long story," I said. "The short version is Diesel and I are pretending to get married, so we can get Kloughn to marry ...

To keep your sanity, when everything seems like it's going wrong, focus on the one thing that's going right!

The panty-line thing shouldn't be a big deal. I think we should just all agree that panty lines are OK. Because the thong thing is ...

Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.

Through prayer, charity and humility before God, people receive a heart which is firm and merciful, attentive and generous, a heart which is not closed, ...

We can't really waste our time; we have to see that we are all in the same boat and that different religious traditions point in ...

We're in His hands." Abby muttered the words she and Phil had said before they left for Iceland. "May God protect us all. He always ...

12Do not forget to rejoice, for hope is always just around the corner. Hold up through the hard times that are coming, and devote yourselves ...

Do your practice and all is coming.

Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the ...

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this ...