List of Topics starting with [P]

If you want to live then you must prepare to die

Being a pastor, of course, obviously people would say it (shouldn't) have done much but, boy, it sure gave me a peace I never had ...

When you enter the world of laughter, you enter the world of fantasy and creativity.

I loved comedy, but I never saw myself as a sitcom guy. I envisioned myself doing an hour drama or doing movies.

It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.

LISTEN to the small, quiet voice within that only ever guides you with love and compassion. Let yourself receive the inspiration of beauty and kindness. ...

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular ...

As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr's death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on ...

I had sent [the magazine] a batch of poems which they turned down flat. I was furious. Floss [my wife] said, 'If I were the ...

A shop bought card saying Get Well Soon. Didn't seem to fit the bill. This hand made card hopes that pretty soon ... You'll be ...

That's for me to know, and for you to find out.

: woman is an eminently poetic reality since man projects onto her everything he is not resolved to be.

Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds.

When someone makes you suffer, it's because his own pain is spilling over. But

If a Christian is not having tribulation in the world, there's something wrong!

Things sometimes go our way and sometimes they don't. All we can do is apply ourselves to our profession, giving our very best effort but ...

We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.

When it comes to loving people, let's not allow it to be something we do on the side. Let's make it a lifestyle. Whether we ...

If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.

Appreciate all the wonderful things in life

On the pro-vaccine side - and not everyone does this, but I saw it enough for it to make me really uncomfortable - is a ...

Music herself should be silent when Nicholas speaks. (on why he had stopped playing during a performance with Tsar Nicholas I in attendance)

You know you're on the right road, when the right and necessary people cross your path

My book might be seen as a search for lower consciousness, an attempt to remove the patina of abstraction or glassy-eyed piety from religious words, ...

Your time is the life you have at a particular moment

You can wait as long as you like, pretty one, it won't make any difference. He will never see you as anything more than some ...

Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it. ...

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.

Anger is a poison that affects our thoughts and creates a fire that burns our sweetness of heart.

Margaret Thatcher said,you know the problem with socialism is that eventually it will run out of other people's money. And she was absolutely right.

See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

A lot of people have wondered what I've been up to. I retired from my career after 24 years. My feeling was that it was ...

A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing ... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less ... ...

When I tell people I'm planning on majoring in psychology, I usually get one of three responses: A) Oh! Are you analyzing me right now? ...

I'm trying to, with my stand-up and with the podcast, give people these little stupid things to give them happiness. I know that sounds lofty ...

Champions learn how to develop empowering beliefs and invest a substantial amount of time solidifying those beliefs, mostly through their own self-talk.

Fear kills instead of protecting. It murders dreams, hopes, relationships and or physical well being.

So that's why you've got to try, you got to breath and have some fun. Though I'm not paid, I play this game, and I ...

Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses ...

I have too much emotion to only be a dick to the people who deserve it.

Malavika Vishwanath. Don't try to say it you'll just piss me off.

After the presentations, we had to fill out these questionnaires. The first question was, 'Where do you see yourself in fifteen years?' I know EXACTLY ...

The God we serve is able (Dan. 3:17). Everything is possible (Mark 9:23). Nothing is impossible (Luke 1:37). We can always hope and pray diligently ...

Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test ...

You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or ...

We are not apart from nature, we are a part of nature. And to betray nature is to betray us, to save nature, is to ...

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence these are the features of ...

The four cardinal pillars of the value culture I practise are: integrity; hard work and commitment; professional excellence; and commitment to society. I

Marriage, in my culture, has nothing to do with romance. It's a matter of logic. If Mr. and Mrs. Ahmadi like Mr. and Mrs. Nejari, ...

If we dispense with some of our self-made boundaries, India can really take its place in the world as an economic power. It hasn't happened ...

Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine.

You will go to the lady and say certain things as i instruct youSuppose she sends for the police?She will not send for the policeYou ...

Immortal honour, endless fame, Attend the Almighty Father's name: The Saviour Son be glorified, Who for lost man's redemption died; And equal adoration be, Eternal ...

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables ...

Do not pull; just attract. Do not demand; just love.

He searched his mind for something more to say, something to take away her pain, but he could find nothing. There were no words to ...

Except for some queasiness in the morning or tiredness in the afternoon, Mary may not have noticed any real signs of her pregnancy yet. Elizabeth's ...

Seen on a poster: I once asked a child what the meaning of life was. "Feed the kitties," she said, "feed the kitties.

It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to ...

The dustbin of history is littered with remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom. We must never forget ... in ...

It's an imperfect world, so you fit in perfectly.

Only children believe they're capable of everything.

There is a lot of stigma and snobbiness about the self-help genre, and I can't vouch for everything out there, but for me, the idea ...

Please always remember, the secret of survival is to embrace change, and to adapt. To quote, All things fall and are built again, and those ...

Ravna thought a moment. "Sysadmin is the usual term," she said.

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; ...

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning ...

The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to say, Robert Herrick; ...

Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of awe and disbelief. "Ever.

Military cemeteries around the world are packed with brainwashed dead soldiers who were convinced God was on their side. America prays for God to destroy ...

Lord ... my goal is not to live forever but to live in thy favor forever. May you not only always bless me and my ...

Outcome-oriented China has enjoyed the fruits of Hamiltonian prosperity; nevertheless, it also endured great human sacrifice and personal agonies along the way to affluence.

And do we also have, do we have ... a party of minor deities from the Halls of Asgard? Away to his right came a ...

There are basically two kinds of people: those who have empathy and care about others and those who don't. The ones who don't are creating ...

I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken up in a ...

It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.

Things worth telling - take time

Pulling off a zebra-print dress can be challenging for some.

Practice has become a real oasis in a chaotic week. It's when we invite the Holy Spirit to fill us again so we can get ...

Never despise a pawn. If it succeeds in crossing the board safely, it becomes a queen - the most powerful piece in the game.

The "hillbilly" girls were generating more enriched Tubealloy per run than the PhDs had...The District Engineer understood perfectly. Those girls...had been trained like soldiers. Do ...

Life is meaningless until we learn to use the power of divine love and see the divine in every event and in every beauty.

Life can be tough at times, but each time you fall, is another lesson to learn from.

The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.

Becoming a dad means you get transformed from the healthy, vibrant, intelligent, youthful person pictured in your wedding photo into a twitching, bewildered, sleep-deprived, Play-Dough-smeared ...

A classroom is like a Greenhouse where the teacher must provide essential amenities like knowledge and life-skill with patience and empathy, control temperatures and provide ...

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just ...

But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

The very sight of a teapot puts a smile on the face of most people. One cannot help but think of more serene and genteel ...

Regardless of what you believe in or conceive of as the functionality of Reality, the Oneness of you with all you experience in your life ...

Mother Teresa said that she couldn't imagine doing her work for more than thirty minutes without prayer. Do you and I have work that we ...

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

A fine layer of ash had blown into the carport, showing a single set of cat prints going from the side of the house to ...

I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got ...

For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like how do I make this ...