Ludek Pachmann
Hope is the conviction that it is never too late.
Marcel Pagnol
First people learn to walk and to talk. Later they learn to sit still and be quiet.
Thomas Paine
Human nature is not of itself vicious.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Sarah Palin
If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes.
Lord Palmerston... the need to cultivate the press and appeal in simple terms to the public in order to create a mass-based political constituency,
Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests.
Christabel Pankhurst
Ability is sexless.
Paracelsus
The poison is the dose.
David Park
Statements of fact end and fall silent, but myth echoes in the memory of generations.
Charlie Parker (jazz musician)
Romance without finance ain't got no chance.
Dorothy Parker
Brevity is the soul of lingerie. (from: www.quotationspage.com)
Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.
I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. (from: www.quotationspage.com)
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
Four be the things I'd been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. (from: ww.quotationspage.com)
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people He gave it to.
If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. (from: www.quotationspage.com)
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires. (from: http: www.quotationspage.com)
I wish I could drink like a lady; I can take one or two at the most; Three and I am under the table; Four, and I am under the host.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgement. (from: www.quotationspage.com)
Kevin Parker (Deutsche Bank)
It's clear the planet can't sustain the rate of growth the way we live.
We have to ask whether it's going to be possible to feed 9 billion people.
Michael Parker
Hope is the ingredient that makes a vision worth pursuing.
Cecil Parkinson
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
Parkinson's Laws
Expenditures rise to meet revenues and to exceed them.
Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.
Dolly Parton
You owe it to people not to look like a dog if you can help it.
Blaise Pascal (Pensées)
He who would act the angel becomes the beast.
As fashion decides what is pleasant, so it decides what is just.
Man is by nature credulous and incredulous, fearful and bold.
The wiser and better a man is the more good he sees in others.
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
In making a book the last ting to know is to find what we must put first.
Glory is so sweet that we love anything to which it is attached, even death.
There are two great mistakes: to reject all reason - or to accept reason only.
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached.
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far, but Faith has no limit.
Men never sin so completely and so cheerfully as when they do so for conscience's sake.
If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.
Chance provides thoughts and chance sweeps them away: there is no art of keeping or getting them.
Why do we follow the majority? Is it because they have more reason? No, because they have more power.
We never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitable that we never become so.
Power and not opinion is the ruler of the world. But it is opinion that makes use of power. It is power that forms opinion.
It is pleasant to be in a storm-tossed ship when one is sure that one will not drown. The persecutions which afflict the church are of this nature.
Boris Pasternak
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
To hope and to act, that is our duty in misfortune.
Louis Pasteur
Chance only favours the mind prepared for it.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity and is the torch which illuminates the world.
James Paterson
I don't subscribe to historical inevitability. People and events can change the course of history.
James Patterson
What are we but our stories. (‘Sam's letters to Jennifer')
George S. Patton
A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
Always do more than is required of you.
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Jean Paul
Humour is suffering conquered.
Laugh at life! Maybe it laughs back.
Memories are the only paradise we can't be expelled from.
It is easier to understand others than to understand yourself.
The worst mistakes are made while trying to correct a previous one.
Our greatest experiences are not our loudest, but our very quiet hours.
Children and clocks must not be wound up forever: one has got to let them go.
Care for individuality and honour it everywhere, because it is the root of all good.
He who started swearing at his enemy instead of using a spear, started civilisation.
We don't realise that wisdom comes with the years until wisdom and years have arrived.
Everyone believes to be the best and most important; but only fools have the courage to say it.
Linus Pauling
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Henry Paulson (US Treasury Secretary 2008)
Raw capitalism is dead.
Anna Pavlova
No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.
Nancy Pelosi
I eat nails for breakfast.
Elections are about the future.
Kieran Pender, lawyer (about whistleblowers)
We're trying to decrease the cost of courage.
Whistleblowers raise fundamental questions of our democracy. They force debate on the influence of corporations, and the balance between free speech and secrecy, and citizen rights and state power.
Stef Penney
Farming is a slow, sure way to lose your fortune.
Vanity is one of the attributes that distinguish us from animals. (all ‘The Tenderness of Wolves’)
The secret of happiness … is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall.
Saul Perlmutter(cosmologist)
What is so remarkable is that we are answering deep philosophical questions with physical measurements.
Simon Peres
You don't begin peace negotiations with a happy end. Keep the happy end for the end.
Juan Peron
The masses don't think, the masses feel.
Ross Perot
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Dominic Perrottet (Treasurer, Government NSW / Australia 2018)
When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
You don't get to choose the times in which you live.
Getting judged at the polls is not as important as being judged by the generations that follow.
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Sooner or later, but with certainty, nature takes revenge against everything humans have done against her.
Peter the Great
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
Petrarca
A little bit of sweet offsets a lot of bitter.
Tracy Pew
Rock music is the anus of culture.
Adam Phillips
You can't be monogamous and unfaithful at the same time.
Julia Phillips
I know a lot of dead people, and one of them is me.
The excitement comes with the principle of love as opposed to love itself.
(from 'You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again')
Kevin Phillips
The whole secret of politics is knowing who hates who.
Pablo Picasso
Youth has no age.
Good artists copy; great artists steal.
Art is a lie that helps us see the truth.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of humdrum life.
There are many more copies among people than originals.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
If there were only one truth one couldn't paint a hundred pictures on the same theme.
An idea is a point of departure, that's all. As soon as you elaborate, it becomes changed by thought.
Art is not the application of a rule of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can imagine beyond any rule. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Never permit a division to rule your life, a division in which you hate what you do and have only pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
T.Boone Pickens
A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan.
Jodi Picoult
Home isn't a where.... It's a who.
The last words are lasting words.
Every beginning is already the start of the end.
The opposite of love ... isn't hate. It's complacency.
Things have a way of working out the way they're supposed to.
Who we are is about not what we do, but why we tell ourselves we do it.
Many people can't see the shape of the life they've lived until they get to the very end of it.
Writing is not about being inspired, waiting for the muse to strike. You can always edit something bad. You can't edit something blank.
Ancient Egyptians believed that the first and most necessary ingredient in the universe was chaos. It could sweep you away, but it was also the place from which all things starts anew.
Harold Pinter
Good writing excites me and makes life worth living.
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
Peter Pierce Professor, James Cook University Cairns
Australia's essential faith is the refusal of faith. This is the most nihilistic country in the world.
Luigi Pirandello
Human imagination helps nature to create even better.
Robert M.Pirsing
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
William Pitt
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Max Planck
The very soul of man is beyond logic.
Science advances one funeral at a time.
Truth never triumphs - its enemies simply die out.
Man needs science for understanding, and faith for action.
Leisure and the good life are necessary conditions for every culture.
Sylvia Plath
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.
Plato
Well begun is half ended.
We become like what we love.
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
Honesty is usually less profitable than dishonesty.
States, just as men, grow out of human characters.
Who tells the truth is regarded as the worst enemy.
I have good hope that there is something after death.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
There is no sure way to success. But a sure way to failure is trying to please everyone.
Democracy is a charming form of government, messy and varied with equality for equals and unequals alike.
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world.
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
Tanya Plibersek
You have to behave in the way that your moral compass points, irrespective of whether it costs you. And on your death bed, that's what will matter.
Pliny the Elder
Home is where the heart is.
Prosperity challenges the fortunate, adversity the great.
It is generally much worse to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired one.
Pliny the Younger
It is better to excel in just one art than to be mediocre in many; however, moderate skill in several is ok if one cannot be excellent in any.
Plutarch
Time is the wisest of all counselors.
To find a fault is easy; but to do better may be difficult.
The measure of a man is the way he behaves under misfortune.
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one in adversity.
To do evil is base. To do good without daring, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do something noble and great by risking everything in doing so.
Edgar Allan Poe
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
I have great faith in fools; my friends call it self-confidence.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so..
Those who dream by day have knowledge of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Henri Poincaré
Small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter. Prediction becomes impossible.
Jackson Pollock
A canvas is an area in which to act.
J.P. Pomare
Death makes life real. (‘In The Clearing’)
If you don't shoot, you don't score. ('The Wrong Woman')
The giver will one day be the receiver. (‘The Last Guests’)
Trust is a precious flower. Squeeze it a little and it wilts. (‘In The Clearing’)
There is a stranger inside everyone, an animal that doesn't think but responds only to its instincts and impulses.
(‘Call Me Evie’)
George Pompidou
There are three ways to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasing is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
Patrice Poncet (Professor ESEC Business School)
It is the tendency of politicians to turn temporary measures into permanent ones.
James Poniewozik
In a world of endless woes, you can be overwhelmed into inaction.
Alexander Pope
Passions are the gales of life.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Pope Benedict XVI
Forgiveness does not replace justice.
Karl Popper
In our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Democracy’s strength is not that it guarantees the best possible government but that it allows the bloodless removal
of a bad one.
Ferdinand Porsche
If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged oneself.
Natalie Portman
You need a great deal of ignorance to take on a great challenge.
Neil Postman
We gaze at technology as a lover does on his beloved, seeing it as without blemish and entertaining no apprehension for the future.
Ezra Pound
Literature is news that stays news.
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
If a man is not prepared to give his life for an ideal, either the man is worth nothing, or the ideal.
Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions. It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
Colin Powell
Either move or be moved.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
Richard Powers
No self without self-delusion. (‘The Echo Maker')
Much of the work of the brain consists of hiding its work from us. (‘The Echo Maker')
Philippe Pozzo di Borgo
Truth is all people depend on each other - we all need each other.
Varshin Prakash
What creates the breeding ground for authoritarianism is people believing that our institutions cannot create material changes
in their lives.
Terry Pratchett (on euthanasia)
If I knew I could die, I would live.
Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Wind is air on its way elsewhere.
Katharine Susannah Prichard
To live was to suffer; but to take the storms of life with exultation, defying the gods with joy in it all, that was the great achievement. ("Intimate Strangers")
J. B. Priestley
The future was influencing the present. ('Lost Empires')
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
Annie Proulx
If you can't fix it you've got to stand it. (‘Brokeback Mountain')
You can't have a fence with only one post. (‘The Mud Below')
Anonymity is extremely pleasant. It's grand to be invisible.
Marcel Proust
Everything great that we know has come from neurotics.
The only cure from suffering is to experience it totally.
A change in the weather can recreate the world - and ourselves.
We living are all dead ones who haven't followed their calling yet.
Every doctor has his favourite diagnosis - and it’s hard to get him off it.
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object with the price tag left on.
The real act of discovery is not finding new lands, but seeing it with new eyes.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Often it is simply lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
Happiness is good for the body, but it is grief that develops the strength of the mind.
(Memory is) …a rope let down from heaven to draw one up from the abyss of unbeing.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure is not to dream less but to dream more: to dream all the time.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves along a journey that no one can take for us.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so intensely than those we spent with a favourite book.
Lies are essential to humanity. They may be as important as the pursuit of pleasure and are certainly dictated by that pursuit.
Pu Zhiqiang
Force itself is powerless.
Emerson Pugh
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. (‘The Biological Origin of Human Values')
Natasha Pulley
She moved like a faulty bicycle.
He had only just learned to dance and talk at the same time. (both ‘The Watchmaker of Filigree Street’)
Alexandr Pushkin
Precision and brevity are the principal merits of prose.
The illusion which excites us is dearer to us than tenthousand truths.
Vladimir Putin
In politics, as in sports, there is always competition.
I am deeply convinced that the biggest disappointments are born out of big expectations.
All armed conflicts end one way or another with some kind of negotiations on the diplomatic track.
Mario Puzo
I was human once, then I got married.
Screw. It's the least labor-intensive recreation.
Revenge is a dish that tastes best when it is cold. (‘The Godfather’)
It is dangerous to be reasonable with stupid people.
Screenwriters don't have writer's block because they don't write. (‘The Last Don’)
Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as personal insults. (‘The Godfather’)
Money can make you safe in this world, from everything except a beautiful woman.
Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks. (‘The Godfather’)
Life is like a box of hand grenades. You never know what will blow you to kingdom come. (all ‘The Last Don’)
Pythagoras
Only talk if you have to say something which is better than silence.
There are only two medicines to heal a wounded soul: hope and patience.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.