Quotes 5281 till 5300 of 8624.
-
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
-
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
-
Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.
-
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
-
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
-
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.
-
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
-
Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
-
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.
-
Politicians and bureaucrats are the new upper class in Norway. It is an upper class that is growing by an increasing number of top-paid politicians in municipalities and counties. They let the people suffer, but let themselves go free.
Source: About state officials Speech at the Progress Party national convention o -
Politicization means the expansion is slowing up and you are no longer attempting to achieve increased output per capita, or increased wealth, or increased satisfactions... but you are doing so by mobilizing power. We have seen this going on for almost a century....increased militarization.
Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war, you can only be killed once. But in politics many times.
-
Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.
-
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
-
Polygraphs are not allowed as evidence in most U.S. courts, but they're routinely used in police investigations, and the Defense Department relies heavily on them for security screening.
-
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
-
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.
-
Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.
-
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
All us—but famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 265)
