Famous Quotes & Sayings

Balthus

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

Benazir Bhutto

Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.

Adela Florence Nicolson

Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?

Sean Covey

Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else.

Hugo Black

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

Jack Abbott

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

Clive Owen

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

Stone Gossard

Parenthood and having kids puts you in touch with a whole other sort of sensitivity which is nothing but good. You feel more than you ever felt. You feel that vulnerability, but at the same time you wouldn't trade it for anything.

Susanne Bier

Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.

Philip Yancey

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

Edward Rutherfurd

Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity.

Serge Schmemann

Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.

Henry IV

Paris must not be a cemetery. I do not wish to reign over the dead.

Robert Smithson

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

Thomas Hoving

Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.

Tom Glazer

Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating.

Bill Murray

Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an ambulance comes, and the police arrive. If you can avoid those things, pretty much all behaviour is acceptable.

Kevin Bacon

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

James Bovard

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

Daniel Gilbert

Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.

Franz von Papen

Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.

Parvesh Cheena

Parvesh Cheena is a real treat for the ladies.

W. Eugene Smith

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Karl Liebknecht

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

Guy Kawasaki

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Norma McCorvey

Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

George Jean Nathan

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Michael Ignatieff

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

Meredith Eaton

Paul Haggis, who's now a big movie guy, cast me as a lawyer in 'Family Law.' When that series ended, I thought that I would be going on more auditions and booking more jobs, but everything just came to a screeching halt.

Linda McCartney

Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.

Antisthenes

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

Anwar Sadat

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

Ronald Reagan

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

James Thomson

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Lenny Kravitz

People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.

Anne Tyler

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

Dashiell Hammett

People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

Eduardo Saverin

People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker. For me, they see a co-founder of Facebook.

Natasha Trethewey

People always want to be on the right side of history; it is a lot easier to say, 'What an atrocity that was' then it is to say, 'What an atrocity this is.'

T. D. Jakes

Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

Red Adair

Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.

Rick Scott

Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home.

Vikram Seth

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.

Bernard Malamud

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Hannah Arendt

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Bobby Seale

Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.

Georg Buchner

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.