List of Topics starting with [P]

Two things that annoy me, are; people who are positive out of ignorance, and people who are negative out of bitterness, People who are neither ...

It indicates possession for plural nouns, between the end of the plural word and the s that follows, as in children's. Except when the word ...

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

Assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the effort to develop ...

When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer. (Technically a misquote, but I like the ...

This is so lame to say in a magazine, but I just grabbed some pink wallpaper. I find it to be a very relaxing color.

The problem is that, partly because we are women, a large measure of our happiness depends on our relationships - including, unavoidably, our relationships with ...

Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing on my own, ...

I'm a workaholic.

The power to be at peace - not because of anything your physical senses perceive, and sometimes in spite of what your physical senses perceive ...

Glorious victories make fine songs, Yarvi, but inglorious ones are no worse once the bards are done with them. Glorious defeats, meanwhile, are just defeats.

Without a positive male role model in your life, it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.

What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.

For Hamlet, greatness means willingness to fight for reasons as thin as an eggshell: anyone would fight for things that matter; true heroes take their ...

Flanked by his personal guardsmen, Emperor Gevalen walked toward me, never letting go of me with his eyes. It was thrilling and terrifying all at ...

I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The ...

There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can ...

My family background was deeply Christian.

To strengthen your power of love,Love those who do not deserve your love.

You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to ...

Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their ...

If at first you dont succeed quit and let God take over

Singing was my first passion. Whenever I sing, I'm always so happy.

It is just a crazy life as a sportsman. My daughter, Sam, wants to go into tennis, and I tell her, 'No, you don't want ...

We entered a vast, bottomless silence. I scrambled for better conversation topics. This all would have been far less stressful in the movie version of ...

One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.

It all comes from the mind. I've seen the most incredible success stories because a person had a dream and it was so powerful no ...

The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are ...

One may feel a sudden wave of sadness and rake his brain for an explanation when he might have noticed that it was caused by ...

My own country's record on human rights for gay people is far from perfect.

We become what we repeatedly do.

Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware ...

Her hair was so fair that it was white, the kind of platinum-blonde tresses that should have belonged to a long-dead movie starlet, her lips ...

The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.

All I'm saying is I've never seen my ex and satan in the same room.

All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words.

Countries, therefore, when lawmaking falls exclusively to the lot of the poor cannot hope for much economy in public expenditure; expenses will always be considerable, ...

Before I began seeing a therapist, I lost a few iPhones due to chucking them across a room.

Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.

I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.

I do, however, want you . You're not the one I'm stuck with because I didn't get my first choice. If you think you're in ...

My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.

I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly ...

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

Walt Whitman said, To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

You have to renew your mind with positive thoughts daily.

I tend to like to write a song and then think about it for a while. I record a demo of it and then put ...

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If ...

Sure, sometimes guys pass you up in salary, and maybe it's a lesser player, but it's all based on what a team has as far ...

Wow, put the girl through a couple of days of high-level stress, dress her in black leather and give her a gun, and suddenly she ...

Living Life without a Purpose is like having an Ice cream cone in your hand, letting it melt and drip without eating it. It was ...

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper ...

Poor planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency on mine.

All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear.

I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, 'Wow!' but I feel like then for the longest ...

Why do people want to drain your energy? So they can journey to other worlds after death, where pleasures are a thousandfold. It is a ...

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

I was always useless at flirting, and simply did not know what needed to be done in order to snare my target... I always ended ...

Without a plan in your head or a penny in your pocket, you best have a prayer in your heart-

Rainbows, very macho -Leo

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.

A disastrous flaw in our design is that the heart always defies the brain.

For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.

When you see yourself in a shattered mirror, don't think of it as the broken pieces of yourself. Think of it as all of the ...

The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.

You feed the requisite substance through personal development efforts and position yourself strategically to allow the forces around you to create the path for your ...

Loving God is laying down your life in service to the Creator so that He can give it back to you.

Professor Henry Higgins: She's an owl, sickened by a few days of *my* sunshine.

They had not yet learned to draw the significant but often very fine distinction between smut and pure science.

To be romantic is quite simply to allow yourself to fall in love with life - all of life - and experience it fully, openly, ...

It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more ...

That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.

No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the ...

The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators ...

If you're sexy and you know it put your hands up in the air. Put your hands up in the air, girl, put your hands ...

I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. ...

There are Latino people in our world who believe strongly that if you are Latino you should speak the language, you should eat the food, ...

Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify ...

Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself.

God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of a cross when I walk out on to the pitch. I ...

I tried four times to get into the Central School of Speech and Drama before I got accepted. I started when I was 17, which ...

Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn't life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking ...

Painting a picture is writing a poem with paint.

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics ... that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need ...

Loose diagnosis is causing a national drug overdose of medication. Six percent of our people are addicted to prescription drugs, and there are now more ...

I watched as he raised his hand to run a finger down my nose to my lips, then traced my mouth.The feather-light touch made me ...

I do not know of a Chinese blogger who has gone to jail, but I know several who have had their blogs shut down. I ...

Well, software doesn't quite work that way. Rather than construction, software is more like gardening - it is more organic than concrete. You plant many ...

Only the insane equate pain with success.""The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die."_Cheshire Cat

Pick a side or create new one ! Otherwise be a coward or traitor.

Though at opposite ends of our country, Maine and Hawaii are, other than climate, much alike. Places where you say who you are, be who ...

Leaders are not born, they're made.

I didn't want to do my mathematics homework back home. Or mend the fence or mind the chickens. But I did it anyway. Just because ...

I have one problem, I don't hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I ...

Humans only see what they want to see, where they are in their minds, who they want to be

It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!