List of Topics starting with [P]

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.

At the heart of Christian ethic is humility; at the heart of its parodies, pride. Different roads with different destinations, and the destinations color the ...

I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When he meets the ...

A dream is a seed.Vision plants it.Imagination nurtures growth.Opportunities create blooms.Thoughts become things!

My legal wife is to me dead; the only ecclesiastical authority I recognise pronounces me free; the attacks and threats of men do not disturb ...

For the D-Day spies were, without question, one of the oddest military units ever assembled. They included a bisexual Peruvian playgirl, a tiny Polish fighter ...

I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race ...

Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered and ...

I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!

How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII

Often we cannot understand what God does because we cannot see the future He sees.

I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that ...

As to the future, the only certainty is that the Internet will encounter new technical and social challenges. If the Internet is to continue as ...

I do not know whether music knows how to despair over music, or marble over marble, but literature is an art which knows how to ...

There's no financial aspect to stats.

If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp ...

There was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own ...

Our nation will succeed or fail to the degree that all of us - citizens and businesses alike - are active participanats in building strong, ...

I still have a Gypsy sense of adventure. I don't think I have slept in the same bed for more than three or four months ...

There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect.Thus I lust over the flawless,and fall amorously forceless to the flawed.

Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse ...

My dad grew up in Pittsburgh in the '50s, and he used to sing Four Seasons songs on the stoop. He made me listen to ...

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

Merlin seeks assistance from Pigwiggen, the only one of Arthur's knights who is also a fairy, and they unite their enchantments to move the British ...

I have been sworn against by perjured and wicked people.

If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was ...

There's a boy who they call Pony! He's always acting gross and horny! He thinks he's got a lot down there, but he sure wears ...

I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to ...

We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but ...

I was contemplating dropping out [pole dancing lessons]; I could barely move a muscle. It had certainly burst my 'I'm in great shape' bubble.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Garret Sutton's books on corporations provide wonderful insight into the power of personal corporations.