Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Singer

Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.

Peter Singer

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.

Peter MacKay

I feel guilty about spending so much time away from home and loved ones.

Peter MacKay

I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia.

Peter Lynch

If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.

Peter Lynch

You shouldn't just pick a stock - you should do your homework.

Peter Guber

There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.

Rachel Carson

Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?

Quvenzhane Wallis

As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.

Quvenzhane Wallis

Brave men don’t learn from their home.

Quincy Jones

My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you know, they were no joke. And he was their master carpenter. He used to build their homes, and all I saw when I was 11 years old were dead bodies and tommy guns and stogies, and backrooms, you know, Drexel Wine and Liquor, with the big piles of money underneath.

Quincy Jones

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

Quentin Crisp

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

Quentin Tarantino

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

Prince Andrew

I look at Canada like a second home.

Polly Adler

My home is in whatever town I'm booked.

Polly Adler

A house is not a home.

Pliny the Elder

Home is where the heart is.

Plutarch

Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, "It is better to make friends at home," Anacharsis replied, "Then you that are at home make friendship with me.

Plutarch

What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

Pierce Brosnan

I live a very simple existence when I'm not on the road. Because when I'm on the road making a movie, I'm away from home.

Phyllis Schlafly

If home is to have a greater lure than a tavern the wife must be at least as cheerful as the waitress.

Phyllis Schlafly

American women are so fortunate. When I got married, all I wanted in the world was a dryer so I didn't have to hang up my diapers. And now women have paper diapers and all sorts of conveniences in the home. And it is the man and the technology that has made the home such a pleasant place for women to be.

Pico Iyer

For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle.

Pico Iyer

I do think it’s only by stopping movement that you can see where to go. And it’s only by stepping out of your life and the world that you can see what you most deeply care about… and find a home.

Pico Iyer

Movement is a fantastic privilege but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.

Pico Iyer

For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul.

Pico Iyer

Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.

Phillip Phillips

Just know you're not alone, 'cause I'm gonna make this place your home.

Phillip Phillips

Settle down, it'll all be clear Don't pay no mind to the demons They fill you with fear The trouble it might drag you down If you get lost, you can always be found Just know you're not alone Cause I'm going to make this place your home

Phillip Lim

I started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes.

Phoebe Cary

One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.

Pope Francis

Once capital becomes an idol and guides people's decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity, it sets people against one another and it even puts at risk our common home.