List of Topics starting with [P]

She was fairly good at any kind of housework not demanding brains. Nobody could say why some of Ossian Popham's gifts of mind and conversation ...

Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing ...

Yeah, keep telling yourself that. Mom and Dad will be so proud that she brought home an alien.

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to beapproached without some humor and some bewilderment.

That kind of love is always changing, you can never plant your feet on it. Trust me there will be others. But those kinds of ...

Carrie lay on the bed and gazed at the ceiling. She was back in business. It was a day to remember. December 7, the same ...

A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.

Usually sees only at Christmas. At last he reached in and tenderly removed his gift of glass from the carton. "A geranium! I cannot believe ...

I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't ...

Big fucking mistake man. You can't be near her. Don't you get it? [ ... ] She's part of this city. Do you see? I ...

The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring about mental emancipation. Without the wonderful element of doubt, the ...

You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering ...

You have the ability to choose your thoughts,to control your emotions,and to determine your actions.Thus you decide your fate.

The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.

Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that ...

Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and said, ...

If you want to know what your child is doing, look at their friends, they wouldn't be friends with them if they weren't doing the ...

She pulled down the blanket and aimed baby Sophie's bottom at him like she might unleash a fusillade of weapons-grade poopage such as the guileless ...

I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the ...

Medical prescriptions, everything that she needed for the performance, in bed, of her duties to soul and body, to keep the proper times for pepsin ...

You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing ...

Cause you gotta stay cool in the corner when the truth is that you wanna move

She's got her God and she's got good wine, Aretha Franklin, and Patsy Cline.

A warning: If you rip, tear, shred, bend, fold, deface, disfigure, smear, smudge, throw, drop, or in any other manner damage, mistreat, or show lack ...

They sealed this promise by hooking pinkies, the way they used to, long ago, when promises didn't hurt as much.

It might've been my fichu.-Patricia to Lucy about her engagement to vicar Penweeble.

You're such a cheater. The best wood in your golf bag is your pencil!

Then we change our possy and lie down again to play cards. We know how to do that: to play cards, to swear, and to ...

I feel so privileged as a mom to be part of a significant organization like the March of Dimes that works hard to prevent prematurity ...

I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies ...

I like people who are fit. I figure if I work out, you can at least return the favor. Would I go out with a ...

Detachment is a basic requirement for seeking enlightenment. Anyone or anything we are attached to has power to manipulate us although we all have freedom ...

Claude Pistal is a creep! He is lucky I'm reasonably mild-mannered like Clark Kent.

If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving ...

Do not judge an entire species based on the actions of their worst few. That is the trait of the Genjix. The Prophus choose to ...

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

Information is power.Humfrey

Once he got bitten, and they all wept bitterly, expecting to see a spectacular death-agony; but he just went off into the bush and probably ...

Being a student of Wuxia literature, I was aware 'Crouching Tiger' was book four in the 'Crane Iron Pentalogy.'

But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last ...

She'd been killed by her own personal assistant, news that Charlotte believed had come as a terrible shock to everyone in the city except the ...

The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many ...

I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish ...

[I]n politics, reputation is the prologue to fact...

A man should therefore grow accustomed to his state and complain about it as little as possible, seizing upon whatever good it may have.

Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.

People are cooking less but obsessing about it more.

Could it be that Cania isn't the ultimate prep school, isn't the sure way into the Ivy League? As if to solidify my suspicion, a ...

How could I possibly learn to survive in such a pagan place, where trams were streetcars, vans and lorries were trucks, pavements were sidewalks, jumpers ...

It is impossible to make disciples aside from the church of Jesus Christ.

Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.

This sword is not just an angel sword. She's an archangel sword. Better than an angel sword, in case that's not clear. She intimidates the ...

Competition is simply an unestablished paternship.

My Dad used to tell us: 'En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos' 'In this country, you ...

We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes.

Passover takes place in the home rather than the synagogue and centers around an epic meal - the seder - so you remember Passover as ...

I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.

No is a false perception. Yes is a positive conception.Go with reality and reason.

I'm accused of having no morality, which is a fair assessment, because my morality is whatever the system allows

When fairness disappears from the public discuss of any nation, when partiality replaces impartiality, God begins to look

It's okay, Ig." said Fang. "Just give it your best shot." Sometimes the Fangster is incredibly supportive, just not with me.

To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal ...

Rewards, my tender pigpiss.

In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the ...

The increasing fascination with and funding of genetic technology is simply another medical dead end, another reductionist rabbit hole that will lead us no further ...

Have you ever gazed up into the infinity of space on a clear night, awestruck by the absolute stillness and inconceivable vastness of

As Jules kissed my cheeks he whispered, She has nothing on you, of course, Kates. It's just that you're so very ... taken.

As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.

You can't live off of just greasy fatty foods and stayin' up till six in the mornin' just partyin'. You gotta take care of yourself.

People who shop at Barnes and Noble voted Ulysses the best novel of the last century, and who's to tell them different? There was a ...

The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties.

One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general.

In their dreams they touch, they intertwine, it's more like a collision, and that is the end of flying. They fall to earth, fouled parachutists, ...

Lion emits a low whistle as he spots Bo entering his fifth-period Journalism class. 'What happened to your face?'Bo touches it tenderly and smiles. 'Nothing ...

To get from "protoplasmal primordial atomic globule" (as Gilbert and Sullivan put it) to sentient upright modern human has required you to mutate new traits ...

My mother and father taught me about black excellence and dynasty. They experienced racism personally, and when something like that happens to you and not ...

Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of ...

All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life ...

An apple cannot not become an orange simply because a McKinsey report concluded it would be beneficial for it to do so.

What a silence when you are here. What a hellish silence.You sit and I sit.You lost and I lose.

Don't patronize me, Caro", he said, sounding even angrier. "You think I don't know what it means to make this commitment but I do ... ...

What I liked about working with Palmbomen and him being a super crate digger and super well known with all this exotic and unfamiliar music ...

My auntie reads those. They're lady porn. Nothing but cowboys who stumble upon the preacher's daughter bathing and next thing you know they're fucking under ...

I started writing music when I was 15 in my bedroom, and I'd post them on MySpace, and from there it shifted to doing covers ...

With 'America's Next Top Model,' I've always cast girls who the industry might call 'plus size' but I like to call 'fiercely real.' That was ...

I always believe in being prepared, even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails.

I don't force myself to exercise; I find going to gyms really boring. I find it easier to go for a fast walk or a ...

The evaluative criteria are then listed as: "1) storytelling quality; 2) photographic quality; 3) impact; 4) simplicity; 5) beauty" (Mich, 46).

Oh my God, you're insatiable.' He held her arms. 'Only on the full moon.' *

When I was young, I couldn't imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they weren't out in ...

If you are surrounded by people who not only don't believe in your goals and your positive outlook on life, but who also continually try ...

This form of love is like the painof childbirth: so intenseit's hard to remember afterwards,

I kept seeing Yolanda on the parquet, two men pinning her to the ground, her eyes loaded with hatred and madness combing her hair. I ...

The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing ...

Ye've a furtive look in your eye - a furtive, sneakin', poachin' look in your eye, that 'ud ruin the reputation of an archangel!

No master can make me swear blind obedience.

Let's all go and be feminists in the pub.

La Posta, eighty miles east of San Diego. That's where they taught us stealth, camouflage, and patrolling, the essential field craft of the commando.

A kiss for luck, demoiselle?"It is a magnificent, lusty kiss and I feel nothing but deep regret that it may be his last. Just before ...