Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Landsteiner

Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms.

Frank Scott

Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism.

Yves Montand

Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.

Frank O'Hara

Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.

Barbara Kingsolver

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Philip Guston

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

Kazimir Malevich

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

Theodor Herzl

Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together.

Yasser Arafat

Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.

Laurie Anderson

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

Fred Rogers

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

LZ Granderson

Parents are supposed to instill a sense of right and wrong in their children and then keep up the due diligence necessary to make sure they don't veer off that path.

Bob Keeshan

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

Jane Howard

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.

Bernice Weissbourd

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

Bridget Kelly

Paris is a danger for people like me. We spend our rent money in Paris on clothes.

Pontus Hulten

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.

Henry Mayhew

Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings

Norman Tebbit

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

William Ames

Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.

Ben Lewin

Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.

Melissa McCarthy

Part of being young is you think gaining 6 lbs. is the end of the world.

Greg Kinnear

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

Carne Ross

Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one.

Elizabeth Emken

Part of the problem you have is that you don't have a dialogue between elected officials and their constituents. They've built these barricades, these barriers around themselves and tried to avoid interaction with their constituents.

Ryan Seacrest

Part of wearing a tee is saying, 'I'm comfortable and casual.'

Kenny Scharf

Part of what I do and what I want to do is I want to bring art into the everyday life. If you can take ordinary just walking in the street and you're confronted by something, that might change your day - it might inspire you.

Colin O'Donoghue

Part of what I like about the best villains in TV and film is when you feel sorry for them, and that makes you feel even worse for feeling guilty about wanting them to succeed, in some way.

Yo-Yo Ma

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

Robert Sternberg

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Henry Samueli

Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It's what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for.

Inga Muscio

Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls.

Marvin Olasky

Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.

Libba Bray

'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest books I've ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book.

Kim Jong-un

Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.

Ron Ben-Israel

Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.

Barbara Johnson

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Douglas Southall Freeman

Patrick Henry aligned himself against ratification. So did Richard Henry Lee.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Phil Jackson

Pau is one of the best big men in the game. I mean, Pau Gasol is going to be in the Hall of Fame.

Robert Gottlieb

Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each other while their disgusted seconds take up the quarrel, is nonstop funny.

James Sinegal

Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

Najib Mikati

Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.

Tawakkol Karman

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

Menachem Begin

Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and more and more.

Kenneth Tynan

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

Bob Casey, Jr.

Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America.

Russell Crowe

People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.

Andy Goldsworthy

People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.

Callie Khouri

People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.