List of Topics starting with [P]

Sufre mas el que espera siempreque aquel que nunca espero a nadie?Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who's never waited for ...

The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to ...

Stop thinking you have to go to big industry to have a big life, because it's not the truth.

For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is ...

Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting slavery behind you. ...

And chase hard and good and with no mistakes and do not overrun them.

The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

There is no failure, unless we fail to begin or we fail to continue.

If they had $2.00 for food, they had to give $1.00 to the union. Otherwise, they would never get out of the trap of poverty. ...

The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds ...

Our source is private.""So are your parts but you can expose them".

Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification.

In the year 2052, it's not love but hate that unites the world.

It is only within knowing ones own self that truth resides & peace prevails.

The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these personalities to ...

I've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.

Im okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better.

I'd seen more cops in the last few days than on a weekend LAW and ORDER marathon - Paigne Winterbourne

And don't even suggest that these would be better off in Tiercel's hands. No, Tiercel has other things to do with his life. You, on ...

My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal.

He and I have a head-nod friendship, since that's pretty much the limit of our interaction.

Though I constantly felt like I was out of my comfort zone, maybe God wanted me totally in a place of uneasiness in order that ...

Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, ...

You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot ...

Is the pen really mightier than the sword? I suppose that depends on how sharp the pen is, and the strength of the warrior wielding ...

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

Shh," she said sternly, as if Luc had been the one who'd just let out the caterwaul.

It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, 'What's happening?' and keep it ...

It is He Who sent down to thee, in truth, the Book (Quran), confirming what went before it; and He sent down the Law (of ...

But then, he calls many things mad that he does not care for. Perhaps that is easier than accepting them.

It's Friday, friday, gotta get down on Friday

Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!

I tell them that there is nothing more selfish than trying to change someone's mind because they don't think like you. Just because something is ...

But it is the waiting that is unbearable, this suspension of time when something has not yet happened and where we feel how very useless ...

I guess people might just get tired of my face.

We're born into the world as just one small piece to the puzzle that makesup an entire life.

For give the dry fool drink, then is the fool not dry. Bid the dishonest man mend himself. If he mend, he is no longer ...

Some people say, "If you trust in God's unconditional love, why do you need to pray?" A better ending is "why wouldn't you want to?"

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, ...

I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel.

Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough.

There are thoughts we must not think.

Excellent book. Very transformative and empowering with a lot of practical advise forepeople struggling to overcome difficulties.

I don't really like the word 'religion.' To me, that's like rules and regulations and paying money to send up prayers. That kind of all ...

It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.

Books were better than movies,

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we turn ...

This is one of God's great purposes in marriage: to picture the relationship between Christ and His redeemed people forever!

I don't accept that the new generation is looking for anything different than what we've always been looking for. Depending on the moment, they want ...

Also, she does this thing women sometimes do with their eyebrows where they just completely shave them off and draw news ones in a different ...

And maybe no better. There is no government in Mexico. Hell, there's no God in Mexico. Never will be. We are dealing with a people ...

Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which ...

The difference between magic and miracles is this. Magic is when you use your mind to tell the Universe what you want. Miracles is when ...

The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given by ...

If you want to change something, change it. Don't just sit around sighing all day like a balloon losing air.

I want to see a doctor," I said.He beamed. "But you've already seen one. Lucky Chang has M.I).s and Ph.D.s from every school between Seoul ...

LOVE will lay a carpet of treasures under your feet.

If anyone or anything tries to curse or kill the Goodness at the Center of all things, it will just keep coming back to life. ...

I have an aspergers diagnosis and I don't give a shit what you people think. My friends are on the internet.

I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'

Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in ...

I was taught very well. My mom raised me very well, and so did my dad. I've been very blessed to have great parents that ...

Maybe it's impossible to live life without any regrets. Even when you know the future... you'll still mess up." (p.163)

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

There are two kind of people. Those who believe in luck and ones who try hard.

Right now what's in my mind is going up there and being disciplined. I was swinging at so many pitches out of the strike zone, ...

When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems ...

It took everything Annika had not to charge herself up with a million volts and turn that little spectral bitch into a smoking blob of ...

Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, 'I have to get this wicket.' When I am just looking to bowl, ...

While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is ...

Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

No one is you, and that is your power.

As a kid I always wanted to be a centre-forward. I wanted the buzz and thrill of scoring goals from an early age.

Selling yourself does not mean boasting about your accomplishments but rather demonstrating security in your goals and your lifestyle so your "customers" feel success and ...

Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning ... Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us ...

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

NEPHEW: One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war ...

What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story.

He said, People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.

Often I didn't think I was cut out for the way the world is, being born into a common culture and system I would never ...

Every night, it's a bakery on the bus. It's a curse, because I talk about how much I love cake, people bring me cake. And ...

Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing ...

Women are born twice.

You are an analog girl, living in a digital world.

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of ...

The life of a vampire begins with the first bite.

My task might be monumental, but my gift - my curse - was the only means I had of making a difference in this world.

What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the ...

Acknowledging the problem is healthy, fearing it is not.

When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.

One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.

My records are borderline dance records. They've got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there's a ...

Teach us ... that we may feel the importance of every day, of every hour, as it passes.

When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a ...

Astonishingly, at least to a non-German, the issue arose again at the reunification of 1990.

One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, ...