Quotes about pro
profound surprise sophisticated
To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden as well as its obvious beauties and is capable of profound and impressive interpretations. What is deeply objectionable about most of these interpretations is that they allow the believer to say Yes while evading any No. Walter Kaufmann
progress use movement
Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak. Walter Lippmann
process found new-things
A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them. William Stafford
problem ought
It is not the ought-ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness! William Pickens
progress trials made
Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes ; yet they are usually left unchronicled. William Ramsay
promise
The future is as bright as the promise of God. William Carey
progress age doe
It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear. Wilhelm von Humboldt
proportion absurdity customs
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude. Walter Savage Landor
procrastination practice hatred
Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.
projects novel asks
The best project is one that asks a novel question. Walter Gilbert
problem controversial
The problem of sexual minorities in Russia has been deliberately made controversial in Russia. There is no such problem in Russia. Vladimir Putin
protect committed
Under the international agreements, the Russian peacekeepers are committed to protect the population of South Ossetia.
provocative
I do not want to answer provocative question.
progress too-much deals
Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop. Winifred Holtby
proxy
Nature will not be admired by proxy. Winston Churchill
procrastination entering delay
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.
problem no-problem solutions
You won't find a solution by saying there is no problem William Rotsler
problem
As soon as you have a problem, it's insoluble. These things should never have been allowed to happen. William S. Burroughs
progress action welfare
Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones. William Lyon Mackenzie King
proud weakness liberalism
Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness. William Kristol
promise gone may
God may be a matter of indifference to the evolutionists, and a life beyond may have no charm for them, but the mass of mankind will continue to worship their creator and continue to find comfort in the promise of their Savior that he has gone to prepare a place for them. William Jennings Bryan
procrastination done politics
Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now. Woodrow Wilson
progress-of-society political lines
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
prostitution
When the stocks go up, the cocks go up! Xaviera Hollander
prostitution call-me mercenary
You can call me mercenary, or call me madam, but, as I always tell my customers - just call me anytime!
produce balkans
[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume.
procrastination hands drug-use
Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet. Will Self
produce best-work working-it
Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.
promise done politics
Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise "what they would do if they got in." But the Republicans have to promise "what they would do" and then explain why they haven't already "done it". Will Rogers
profit-margin limits mature
The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isnt so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment. Zong Qinghou
prove
I want to be working with directors who are at the top of their game. I want to be raising the bar for myself, and to me, the best way to do that is to prove to them that I'm the best for this job. Zachary Quinto
profit happens
Profit is what happens when you do everything else right. Yvon Chouinard
procrastinating distracted
I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything. Zach Braff