Quotes 5161 till 5180 of 8447.
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Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
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Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening.
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
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Pretty hard to sweep me off my feet. It would have to take someone very special. You never know. I guess when you least expect it, it's going to come.
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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
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Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
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Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it is all I require of them.
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Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
Source: Highway 61 Revisited (1965) -
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
Source: Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr -
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
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Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
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Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, connecting people.
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Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.
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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
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Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.
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Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.
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