PACIFISM : Pacifism, after all, fails if it’s passive. (Virginia Heffernan: U.S. journalist and cultural critic, Born 1969)

PACIFISM : War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

PAIN : As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. (Edith Wharton: Novelist, short story writer, and designer, whose work portrayed the lives and morals of the Gilded Age, 1862-1937)

PAIN : But ne'er the rose without the thorn. (Robert Herrick: English lyric poet and cleric, 1591-1674)

PAIN : If you want to enjoy intimacy, you must learn to enjoy pain. (Marshall Rosenberg: U.S. psychologist, mediator, author, and teacher who developed the Non-violent Communication (NVC) process for helping to resolve conflict, 1934-2015)

PAIN : Nothing lasts forever, neither pain nor happiness. It’s just a matter of time to heal or seal. (Unknown Source: )

PAIN : One cannot get through life without pain . . . . What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us. (Bernie S. Siegel: U.S. writer and retired pediatric surgeon, Born 1932)

PAIN : Pain is deeper than all thought, laughter is higher than all pain. (Elbert Hubbard: U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, and philosopher, 1856-1915)

PAIN : Pain is part of being alive . . . .Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbearable, (Harold Kushner: U.S. rabbi, author, and lecturer, 1935-2023)

PAIN : Pain is the root of knowledge. (Simone Weil: French philosopher and political activist for the working class, 1909-1943)

PAIN : People who are hurting hurt others. (Kathryn G. Patinkin: U.S. actress and writer, Born 1946)

PAIN : The depth of your pain is an indication of the height of your future. (Joel Osteen: U.S. pastor, televangelist, businessman, and author, Born 1963)

PAIN : The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings. (William Hazlitt: English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)

PAIN : The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977)

PAIN : We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. (Jim Rohn: U.S. entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker, 1930-2009)

PAIN : When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured. (English proverb: )

PAIN : Where there is love, there is pain. (Spanish Proverb: )

PAINTER : Every photographer is a painter trying to get out. (Pablo Picasso: Spanish painter, sculptor, ceramicist, stage designer, poet, and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)

PAINTING : Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. (Claude Monet: French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, 1840-1926)

PAINTING : I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. (Vincent Van Gogh: Dutch painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of modern Western art, 1853-1890)

PAINTING : I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall. (Pierre Renoir: French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style, 1841-1919)

PAINTING : Ideas are to literature what light is to painting. (Paul Bourget: French novelist, critic, and a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1852-1935))

PAINTING : If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. (Edward Hopper: U.S. realist painter, 1882-1967)

PAINTING : It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colors, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important. (Vincent Van Gogh: Dutch painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of modern Western art, 1853-1890)

PAINTING : Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. (Vincent Van Gogh: Dutch painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of modern Western art, 1853-1890)

PAINTING : Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. (Simonides: Greek lyric poet, c.556—c.468 B.C.E.)

PAINTING : Painting is the song of the brush. (Unknown Source: )

PAINTING : Painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later. (Joan Miro: Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist, 1893-1983)

PAPERWORK : We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. (Werner Von Braun: German-American aerospace engineer and space architect, 1912-1977)

PARACHUTES : A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open. (Frank Zappa: U.S. musician, singer, composer, songwriter, bandleader, and satirist of U.S. culture, 1940-1993)

PARALYSIS : Fear is the most devastating of all human emotions. Man has no trouble like the paralyzing effects of fear. (Unknown Source: )

PARANOIA : I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. (J. D. Salinger: U.S. writer, known for his widely-read novel, "The Catcher in the Rye," 1919-2010)

PARDONING : It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. (St. Francis of Assisi: Italian Catholic deacon, preacher, and as a saint is one of the most venerated religious figures in history, 1181-1226)

PARDONING : The heart has always the pardoning power. (Anne-Sophie Swetchine: Russian mystic, famous for her salon in Paris, 1782-1857)

PARENTHOOD : A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents. (Unknown Source: )

PARENTHOOD : A child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. (Ellen Key: Swedish feminist writer and an early advocate of a child-centered approach to education and parenting, 1849-192)

PARENTHOOD : A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. (Margaret Fuller: U.S. author, critic, and women's rights advocate, 1810-1850)

PARENTHOOD : A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. (Unknown Source: )

PARENTHOOD : Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. (John Wilmot: English Earl and poet, 1647-1680)

PARENTHOOD : Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. (Lady B. Johnson: U.S. socialite and the First Lady of the United States as the wife of the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson, 1912-2007)

PARENTHOOD : Come mothers and fathers throughout the land. And don't criticize what you can't understand. Your sons and daughters are beyond your command. (Bob Dylan: U.S. Nobel Prize laureate, singer, painter, and songwriter of "The Times They Are A-Changin,' Born 1941)

PARENTHOOD : For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world. (William R. Wallace: U.S. poet, 1819-1881)

PARENTHOOD : Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. (Chinese Proverb: )

PARENTHOOD : He that spareth his rod hateth his son. (Unknown Source: )

PARENTHOOD : If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

PARENTHOOD : If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)

PARENTHOOD : If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. (Abigail Van Buren: U.S. advice columnist and radio show host who began the 'Dear Abby' column in 1956, which became the most widely syndicated newspaper column in the world, 1918-2013)

PARENTHOOD : In addition to marriage vows, vows before becoming parents should be established between partners. (Donald DeGrasse: U.S. mechanical engineer, 1963-2019)

PARENTHOOD : Let your children go if you want to keep them. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990)

PARENTHOOD : Parenting is a lifetime sentence. (Unknown Source: )

PARENTHOOD : Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. (Marcelene Cox: U.S. writer, 1899-1998)

PARENTHOOD : Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth. (Peter Ustinov: British actor, writer, filmmaker, columnist, radio broadcaster, and television presenter, 1921-2004)

PARENTHOOD : Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. (African Proverb: )

PARENTHOOD : The child is father of the man. (William Wordsworth: English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature, 1770-1850)

PARENTHOOD : The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. (Theodore Hesburgh: U.S. priest who served for 35 years as the president of the University of Notre Dame, 1917-2015)

PARENTHOOD : The rifle fires the bullet, but the wind carries it. (Russian Proverb: )

PARENTHOOD : The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. (Peter DeVries: U.S. editor and novelist known for his satiric wit, 1910-1993)

PARENTHOOD : The words a father speaks to his children in the privacy of the home are not overheard at the time, but, as in whispering galleries, they will be clearly heard at the end and by posterity. (Johann (Jean) P. Richter: German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. 1763-1825)

PARENTHOOD : There are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect. (Ivy B. Priest: U.S. politician who served as U.S. Treasurer and California State Treasurer, 1905-1975)

PARENTHOOD : There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. (Carter Hodding lll: U.S. journalist and politician, Born 1935)

PARENTHOOD : Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

PARENTHOOD : Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. (Jim Bishop: U.S. journalist and author, 1907-1987)

PARENTHOOD : What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

PARENTHOOD : When a newborn child squeezes for the first time with his tiny fist his father's finger, he has him trapped forever. (Gabriel G. Marquez: Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1927-2014)

PARENTHOOD : Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children. (Ann Landers: U.S. syndicated advice-columnist whose work was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America and led to her becoming a cultural icon, 1918-2002)

PARENTHOOD : You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. (Franklin P. Adams: U.S. writer, famed for his wit and best known for his columns and as a radio panelist, 1881-1960)

PARENTHOOD (U.S.A.) : The thing that impresses me most about North America is the way parents obey their children. (Unknown Source: )

PARENTING : All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar. (Cathy Guisewite: U.S. cartoonist, Born 1950)

PARENTING : Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)

PARENTING : As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. (Buddy Hackett: U.S. comedian and comic actor, 1924-2003)

PARENTING : Birth is much, but breeding is more. (English proverb: )

PARENTING : Do not worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. (Robert Fulghum: U.S. author and Unitarian Universalist minister, Born 1937)

PARENTING : I just taught my kids about taxes by eating 38% of their ice cream. (Conan O'Brien: U.S. television host, comedian, writer, podcaster, and producer, Born 1963)

PARENTING : If one's children, it makes it harder to be the child to one's own parents once on is an adult. (Unknown Source: )

PARENTING : If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. (Abigail Van Buren: U.S. advice columnist and radio show host who began the 'Dear Abby' column in 1956, which became the most widely syndicated newspaper column in the world, 1918-2013)

PARENTING : In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane. (Phyllis Diller: U.S. actress and stand-up comedian, 1917-2012)

PARENTING : My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. (Clarence Kelland: U.S. writer who was a literary figure whose writings were both prolific and versatile, 1881-1964)

PARENTING : Offspring are not meant to be molded, but unfolded. (Jesse Lair: U.S. professor and author who wrote a bestselling book considered the forerunner of the self-help movement, 1927-2000)

PARENTING : One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. (George Herbert: English aristocrat and financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Egyptian tombs, 1866-1923)

PARENTING : One of the greatest things a father can do for his children is to love their mother. (Howard W. Hunter: U.S. lawyer and the 14th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1907-1995)

PARENTING : Parenting should involve Roots to give children security and a sense of belonging, but also Wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices. (Unknown Source: )

PARENTING : Spare the rod and spoil the child. (English proverb: )

PARENTING : The best time to give advice to your children is while they''re still young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. (Evan Esar: U.S. humorist who wrote 'Esar's Comic Dictionary,' 1899-1995)

PARENTING : The days are long, but the years are short. (Gretchen Rubin: U.S. author, blogger, and public speaker, Born 1965)

PARENTING : The fathers may soar / And the children may know their names. (Toni Morrison: U.S. African-American novelist, editor, professor, social reformer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1931-2019)

PARENTING : The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. (Fred Astaire: U.S. dancer, singer, actor, musician, choreographer, and presenter, 1899-1987)

PARENTING : The scariest part about being a parent is the part when you have to sit back and let them learn on their own. (Unknown Source: )

PARENTING : We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. (Phyllis Diller: U.S. actress and stand-up comedian, 1917-2012)

PARENTING : When my father didn't have my hand . . . he had my back. (Linda Poindexter: U.S. Episcopalian priest, author, and humorist, 1944-2023)

PARENTING : While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. (Angela Schwindt: U.S. mother and unicyclist coach)

PARENTING : Your children are not your children . . . . They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

PARENTS : By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away. (Wayne W. Dyer: U.S. author and motivational speaker, 1940-2015)

PARENTS : Parents are friends that life gives us; friends are parents that the heart chooses. (Diane de Beausacq: French writer, 1829-1899)

PARENTS : Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of. (John Wolfenden: British educationalist who supported the decriminalization of homosexuality, 1906-1985)

PARENTS : Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best (Bob Talbert: U.S. sportswriter, editor, and columnist, 1936-1999)

PARENTS : There are no illegitimate children—only illegitimate parents. (Leon R. Yankwich: U.S. Federal judge, 1888-1975)

PARTICIPATION : He who moves most fully into life feels most removed from death, and he who is least afraid of living is least afraid of dying. (Arthur Jersild: U.S. developmental psychologist at Columbia University, 1902-1994)

PARTICIPATION : It is not upon you to finish the task, but you’re not absolved from trying. (Unknown Source: )

PARTICIPATION : The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. (Alexis de Tocqueville: French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)

PARTINGS : Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. (Charles Dickens: English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870)

PARTISANSHIP : Divided opinions have convulsed societies since Greece and Rome; they are the oxygen of a free government. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

PARTISANSHIP : The rocks in the water don't know how the rocks in the sun feel. (Haitian Proverb: )

PARTISANSHIP : Where you stand depends on where you sit. (Rufus Miles: U.S. author and Federal administrator who served as an assistant secretary under three presidents, 1910-1996)

PARTISANSHIP (U.S.A.) : America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

PARTYING : Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow ye diet. (William G. Beymer: U.S. novelist and Assoc. Professor of history, 1881-1969)

PASSION : Faith is a passionate intuition. (William Wordsworth: English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature, 1770-1850)

PASSION : He fights with spirit as well as with the sword. (Latin Proverb: )

PASSION : Hope is passion for what is possible. (Soren Kierkegaard: Danish existentialist philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author, 1813-1855)

PASSION : I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

PASSION : I would rather die of passion than of boredom. (Vincent Van Gogh: Dutch painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of modern Western art, 1853-1890)

PASSION : Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. (Jean de la Fontaine: French fable writer and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century, 1621-1695)

PASSION : Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. (Georg W. Hegel: German philosopher whose canonical stature within Western philosophy is universally recognized, 1770-1831)

PASSION : Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. (Denis Diderot: French Enlightenment philosopher and art critic, 1713-1784)

PASSION : Passion is the log that keeps the fire of purpose blazing. (Oprah Winfrey: U.S. talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist, born 1954.)

PASSION : The lust for comfort murders the passions of the soul. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

PASSION : Those who have a why or what to live for can bear almost any how. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

PASSION : Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.)

PASSION : Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you haven't even begun to live. (William P. Merrill: U.S. Presbyterian clergyman, pacifist, author, and hymn writer. who at the time was considered as one of the most influential ministers in the country, 1867-1954)

PASSION : What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight—it's the size of the fight in the dog. (Dwight D. Eisenhower: U.S. politician and five-star Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969)

PASSION : Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. (Pasquier Quesnel: French Jansenist theologian, 1634-1719)

PASSIONLESS : Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. (Claude A. Helvetius: French philosopher, freemason, and writer, 1715-1771)

PASSIONLESS : People who never get carried away should be. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990)

PASSPORTS : While we all carry a national passport out of necessity, ‘the world is our country’. (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)

PAST : "The good old days." The only good days are ahead. (Alice Childress: U.S. novelist, playwright, actress, stage producer, and off-Broadway union organizer, 1916-1994)

PAST : Don't let yesterday take up too much of today, (Will Rogers: U.S. stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, newspaper columnist, and social commentator, 1879-1935)

PAST : Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity (Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb: Arabic caliph, Muslim jurist, and father-in-law of the islamic prophet, Muhammad, c. 583 or 584 C.E. - 644 C.E.)

PAST : I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. (Arthur W. Pinero: English actor, dramatist, and stage director, 1855-1934)

PAST : I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. (Patrick Henry: U.S. attorney, planter, orator, and one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1736-1799)

PAST : I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

PAST : In reflecting on your past, don't obscure the future. (Stacy Keach: U.S. actor and narrator, Born 1941)

PAST : It is no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then]. (Lewis Carroll: English writer, mathematician, and logician whose most famous writings are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," 1832-1898)

PAST : It’s but little good you’ll do a-watering the last year’s crops. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

PAST : Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. (John W. Gardner: U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1912-2002)

PAST : Memories are . . . disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection. (Oliver Sacks: British-U.S. neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer, 1933-2015)

PAST : Never be a prisoner of your past; it was just a lesson, not a life sentence. (Unknown Source: )

PAST : Nostalgia is a seductive liar. (George W. Ball: U.S. diplomat and banker who also served in the management of the U.S. State Department, 1909-1994)

PAST : Not the power to remember, but its very opposite: the power to forget is a necessary condition for our existence. (Sholem Asch: Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language, 1880-1957)

PAST : Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened but of what people believe happened. (Gerald W. Johnson: U.S. historian, journalist, novelist, editor, 1880-1980)

PAST : Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours. (Bill Vaughan: U.S. columnist and author, 1915-1977)

PAST : One faces the future with one's past. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

PAST : People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797)

PAST : Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future. (Dale Turner: U.S. singer-songwriter and rock musician, noted for his sophisticated song-craft)

PAST : The apparent serenity of the past is an oil spread by time. (Lloyd Frankenberg: U.S. poet critic, anthologist, and Guggenheim Fellow in the Creative Arts, 1907-1970)

PAST : The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

PAST : The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be. (Paul Valery: French poet, essayist, and philosopher, 1871-1945)

PAST : The illusion that times that WERE are better than those that ARE has probably pervaded all ages. (Horace Greeley: U.S. author and statesman who was the founder and editor of the 'New-York Tribune,' 1811-1872)

PAST : The longer you live in the past, the less future you have to enjoy. (Unknown Source: )

PAST : The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. (Ralph Blum: U.S. actor and writer, Born 1932)

PAST : The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. (Eckhart Tolle: German-born resident of Canada, an influential spiritual writer, Born 1948)

PAST : The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post. (L. T. Holdcroft: English dramatist, poet, and translator who helped Thomas Paine publish the first part of "The Rights of Man," 1745-1809)

PAST : The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living. (Roy T. Bennett: U.S. inspirational author, 1957-2018)

PAST : The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

PAST : The past is for inspiration, not imitation; for continuation, not repetition. (Israel Zangwill: British author at the forefront of cultural Zionism during the 19th century, 1864-1926)

PAST : The past is never dead—it is not even past. (William Faulkner: U.S. novelist and Nobel Laureate, 1897-1962)

PAST : The past is never where you think you left it. (Katherine A. Porter: U.S. journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet, and political activist, 1890-1980)

PAST : The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. (Robertson Davies: Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor, 1913-1995)

PAST : This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past. (Agathon: Greek tragic poet, 448—400 B.C.E.)

PAST : Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

PAST : Time goes by like the current of a river, never to come back. (Bengali Proverb: )

PAST : Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday. (John Wayne: U.S. actor, filmmaker, and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, 1907-1979)

PAST : We must feel the past under our feet because we raised ourselves upon it. (Jose Ortega y Gasset: Spanish philosopher and essayist, 1883-1955)

PAST : We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. (William Wordsworth: English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature, 1770-1850)

PAST : What's past is prologue. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

PAST : When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back. (Omar Khayyam: Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet, 1048-1131)

PAST : When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. (Alexis de Tocqueville: French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)

PAST : Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. (George Orwell: English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic, known for his outspoken support of democratic socialism, 1903-1950)

PAST : You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on. (Heraclitus: Pre-Socratic Ionian Greek philosopher, and a native of the city of Ephesus, in modern day Turkey and then part of the Persian Empire, 535—475 B.C.E.)

PAST : Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it. (Unknown Source: )

PASTIME : Television is chewing gum for the eyes. (Frank L. Wright: U.S. architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, 1867-1959)

PATHWAYS : If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. (Frank A. Clark: U.S. lawyer and politician who served in public and private practice for some 50 years, including 20 years in the U.S. Congress, 1860-1936)

PATHWAYS : The obstacle is the path. (Unknown Source: )

PATIENCE : A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. (Dutch Proverb: )

PATIENCE : Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

PATIENCE : All human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope! (Alexandre Dumas: French novelist and playwright who is one of the most widely read French authors, 1802-18870)

PATIENCE : All things come round to him who will but wait. (Henry W. Longfellow: U.S. poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline," 1807-1882)

PATIENCE : Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. (Chinese Proverb: )

PATIENCE : Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. (Unknown Source: )

PATIENCE : Delay is preferable to error. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

PATIENCE : Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good. (William A. McDonough: U.S. architect and the dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, Born 1951)

PATIENCE : Don’t go down to the cellar until the windstorm hits. (Unknown Source: )

PATIENCE : Endurance is patience concentrated. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

PATIENCE : Everything comes if a man will only wait. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)

PATIENCE : Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

PATIENCE : Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

PATIENCE : Genius is eternal patience. (Michelangelo: Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance, 1475-1564)

PATIENCE : Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience. (Georges-Louis Leclerc: French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and, encyclopédiste, 1707-1788)

PATIENCE : Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. (Nathaniel Hawthorne: English novelist and short story writer, 1804-1864)

PATIENCE : He that can have patience can have what he will. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

PATIENCE : However long the night, the dawn will break. (African Proverb: )

PATIENCE : I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

PATIENCE : I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

PATIENCE : If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient observation than to any other reason. (Isaac Newton: English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution, 1642-1727)

PATIENCE : If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow. (Unknown Source: )

PATIENCE : It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. (Joseph Rose: U.S. journalist and Episcopal priest, Born 1969)

PATIENCE : Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. (Hal Borland: U.S. author and journalist, 1900-1978)

PATIENCE : Make haste slowly. (Unknown Source: )

PATIENCE : My mother said, "You won't amount to anything because you procrastinate." I said, "Just wait." (Judy Tenuta: U.S. comedian noted for her brash onstage persona, Born 1956)

PATIENCE : Never a tear bedims the eye / That time and patience will not dry. (Bret Harte: U.S. short-story writer and poet, best known for his short fiction featuring miners and gamblers of the California Gold Rush, 1836-1902)

PATIENCE : Patience and fortitude conquer all things. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

PATIENCE : Patience and gentleness is power. (Leigh Hunt: English critic, essayist, and poet, 1784-1859)

PATIENCE : Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit. (German Proverb: )

PATIENCE : Patience is also a form of action. (Auguste Rodin: French sculptor, 1840-1917)

PATIENCE : Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead. (Bill McGlashan: U.S. businessman and former international private equity investor, Born 1963)

PATIENCE : The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it (Arnold H. Glasow: U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

PATIENCE : The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. (Iris Murdoch: Irish novelist and philosopher who is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious, 1919-1999)

PATIENCE : The secret of patience . . . is to do something else in the meantime. (Unknown Source: )

PATIENCE : The secret of patience . . . to do something else in the meantime. (Unknown Source: )

PATIENCE : The strongest of all warriors are these two—Time and Patience. (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

PATIENCE : Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time. (Pericles: Greek statesman and general of Athens during its golden age, c.495—c.406 B.C.E.)

PATIENCE : Wisely and slow / They stumble that run fast. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

PATIENCE : You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. (Franklin P. Adams: U.S. writer, famed for his wit and best known for his columns and as a radio panelist, 1881-1960)

PATIENCE : You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

PATIENTS : It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has. (William Osier: Canadian physician, one of the founders of Johns Hopkins Hospital, and known ast he 'Father of Modern Medicine,' 1849-1919)

PATRIOTISM : I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. (Edith Cavell: British humanitarian and nurse who is celebrated for saving the lives of World War I soldiers from both sides without discrimination, 1865-1915)

PATRIOTISM : If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. (Mokhtar Dahari: Malaysian professional football payer, 1953-1991)

PATRIOTISM : It is lamentable that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

PATRIOTISM : It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he adores the flag. (Kin Hubbard: U.S. cartoonist, humorist, and journalist, 1868-1930)

PATRIOTISM : Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. (Guy de Maupassant: French writer, remembered as a master of the short-story form, 1850-1893)

PATRIOTISM : Patriotism is like the love that a parent has for a child; nationalism is akin to believing that one's child can do no wrong. (Robin Givhan: U.S. fashion editor and Pulitzer Prize winning writer, Born 1964)

PATRIOTISM : Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. (George J. Nathan: U.S. drama critic, author, and editor of literary magazines, 1882-1958)

PATRIOTISM : Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power. (Chelsea Manning: U.S. activist and whistleblower. She is a former United States Army soldier who was convicted by court-martial in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act but whose sentence was later commuted by President Obama, Born 1987)

PATRIOTISM : Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

PATRIOTISM : Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

PATRIOTISM : Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels. (Unknown Source: )

PATRIOTISM : Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first. Nationalism is when hate for people other than your own comes first. (Charles De Gaulle: French military general and statesman who founded France's Fifth Republic and was elected as the President of France, 1890-1970)

PATRIOTISM : Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

PATRIOTISM : The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. (Edward Abbey: U.S. naturalist, author, and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, 1927-1989)

PATRIOTISM : The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for. (Laurence J. Peter: Canadian educator best known for the formulation of the 'Peter Principle- managers rise to the level of their incompetence,' 1919-1990)

PATRIOTISM : When a whole nation is roaring 'Patriotism' at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of heart. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

PATRIOTISM : You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

PATRIOTISM (U.S.A.) : Dissent is not only patriotic, it is the essence of what being an American is all about. (Howard Zinn: U.S. political science professor, author, and social activist, 1922-2010)

PATRIOTISM (U.S.A.) : Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. (Barbara Ehrenreich: U.S. journalist, activist, and author, Born 1941)

PATRIOTISM (U.S.A.) : I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

PATTERNS : When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. (Tuli Kupferberg: U.S. counterculture poet, author, singer, cartoonist, publisher, and co-founder of a rock band, 1923-2010)

PEACE : A bad peace is even worse than war. (Tacitus: Roman senator and historian, known for his penetrating insights into the psychology of power politics, 56—117 A.D.)

PEACE : A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war. (Henry Van Dyke: U.S. poet, 1852-1933)

PEACE : Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

PEACE : How can a solution come if everyone is trying to gain more and more? Nobody yet has said, What can I give for a solution, what can I sacrifice to achieve peace? (Tony Angastiniotis: Greek Cypriot human rights activist and documentary-maker, Born 1966)

PEACE : I have never advocated war, except as a means of peace. (Ulysses S. Grant: 18th president of the United States, who 1865, as commanding general, Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War, 1822-1885)

PEACE : I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

PEACE : If they want peace, nations should avoid the pinpricks that precede cannon shots. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

PEACE : If we are to reach real peace in this world . . . we shall have to begin with the children. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

PEACE : If you want peace, work for justice. (Pope Paul VI: Leader of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State, 1963-1978, Born 1897, Died 1978)

PEACE : If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

PEACE : Imagine there's no country . . . Nothing to kill or die for / And no religion, too / Imagine all the people / Living life in peace. (John Lennon: English musician, singer, and songwriter who was a founding member of the rock band, the Beatles, 1940-1980)

PEACE : In order for me to write poetry that isn't political / I must listen to the birds / and in order to hear the birds / the warplanes must be silent. (Marwan Makhoul: Palestinian poet living in Israel who challenges Israeli policies and norms through his verses)

PEACE : In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. (Herodotus: Greek historian who is known for having written the book "The Histories," and who is often referred to as "The Father of History,” 484—425 B.C.E.)

PEACE : It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. (Andre Gide: French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)

PEACE : Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace. (Dwight D. Eisenhower: U.S. politician and five-star Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969)

PEACE : Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew. (John G. Whittier: U.S. poet, Quaker, and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States, 1807-1892)

PEACE : Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

PEACE : Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. (Benedict Spinoza: Dutch Enlightenment philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin who was inspired by ground-breaking ideas of Rene Descartes, 1632-1677)

PEACE : Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

PEACE : Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us. (Sargent Shriver: U.S. politician, activist, the driving force behind the U.S. Peace Corps, and founder of the Job Corps and Head Start, 1915-2011)

PEACE : Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. (Carl Sandburg: U.S. poet, biographer, journalist, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln, 1878-1967)

PEACE : Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. (Unknown Source: )

PEACE : The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war. (Unknown Source: )

PEACE : The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. (Carlos Santana: Mexican and American guitarist who pioneered a fusion of rock and roll and Latin American jazz, Born 1947)

PEACE : The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations. (Golda Meir: Israeli teacher, kibbutznik, stateswoman, politician, and the fourth Prime Minister of Israel — Israel’s first and only woman to hold the office, known as the ‘Iron Lady’ of Israeli politics, 1917-1951)

PEACE : There can be no peace in the world until there is peace among the world's religions. (Hans Kung: Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and author who was president of the Foundation for a Global Ethic, 1928-2021)

PEACE : There is nothing . . . to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

PEACE : There never was a good war or a bad peace. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

PEACE : Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

PEACE : To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. (George Washington: U.S. politician and soldier who served as the first President of the United States and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, 1732-1799)

PEACE : Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it. (Anne O. McCormick: English-American journalist who worked as a foreign news correspondent and was the first woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize in a major journalism category, winning in 1937 for Correspondence, 1880-1954)

PEACE : War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace. (Norman Cousins: U.S. political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate, 1915-1990)

PEACE : When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. (Jimi Hendrix: U.S. rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter, 1942-1970)

PEACE-MAKING : Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

PEACE-MAKING : Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. (Ronald Reagan: U.S. actor and politician who served as the 40th President of the United States, 1911-2004)

PEACE-MAKING : The earth is too small and life is too short for anything to be more important than the quest for peace. (Leonard I. Beerman: U.S. Reform rabbi, a promoter of interfaith dialog, and an advocate for peace and a two- state solution in the Middle East, 1921-2014)

PEACE-MAKING : The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. (Vijaya L. Pandit: Indian freedom fighter, diplomat, and politician who served as the 8th President of the United Nations General Assembly, 1900-1990)

PEACE-MAKING : The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. (Sun Tzu: Chinese general, military strategist, writer, and philosopher who authored an influential work of military strategy that has affected both Western and East Asian philosophy and military thinking, 544-496 B.C.E.)

PEACE-MAKING : We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. (Buckminster Fuller: U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983)

PEACEFULNESS : A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. (Aesop Fable: )

PEACEFULNESS : Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.)

PEDESTAL : A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934)

PERCEPTION : A fish can’t see water unless it jumps out of the water. (Chinese Proverb: )

PERCEPTION : A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

PERCEPTION : A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. (Antoine de Saint-Expery: French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator, 1900-1944)

PERCEPTION : All our interior world is reality—and perhaps more so than our apparent world. (Marc Chagall: Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin whose creations include virtually every artistic format, 1887-1985)

PERCEPTION : All that glisters is not gold. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616)

PERCEPTION : Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. (Franz Kafka: German language writer of novels and short stories, 1883-1924)

PERCEPTION : Art is a form of perceptual gymnastics. (Umberto Eco: Italian novelist, literary critic, and semiotician, 1932-2016)

PERCEPTION : As we learn we always change, and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us. (Hyemeyohsts (Charles) Storm: German-American immigrant, Born 1935)

PERCEPTION : Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. (Margaret Hungerford: Irish popular novelist who wrote light romantic fiction, 1855-1897)

PERCEPTION : Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. (Wayne W. Dyer: U.S. author and motivational speaker, 1940-2015)

PERCEPTION : Do not believe everything you hear: Real eyes realize real lies. (Tupac Shakur: U.S. musical artist who is widely considered one of the most influential and successful rappers of all time, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide, 1971-1996)

PERCEPTION : Everyone hears only what he understands. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

PERCEPTION : Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.)

PERCEPTION : From a distance it is something, and nearby it is nothing. (Jean de la Fontaine: French fable writer and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century, 1621-1695)

PERCEPTION : Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

PERCEPTION : He had but one eye, and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of. two. (Charles Dickens: English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870)

PERCEPTION : How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us. (Parks Cousins: )

PERCEPTION : I stopped explaining myself when I realized people only understand from their level of perception. (Kevin Gates: U.S. rapper, singer, and entrepreneur, Born 1986)

PERCEPTION : I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. (Kurt Vonnegut: U.S. writer, 1922-2007)

PERCEPTION : If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. (William Blake: English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827)

PERCEPTION : If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people (Virginia Woolf: English writer, considered to be a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device, 1882-1941)

PERCEPTION : In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance. (S. J. Hayakawa: Canadian-born American academic and politician of Japanese ancestry, who served as U.S. Senator from California, 1906-1992)

PERCEPTION : In the hopes of reaching the moon, men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. (Albert Schweitzer: French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965)

PERCEPTION : Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism. (Susan Sontag: U.S. writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist, 1933-2004)

PERCEPTION : It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem. (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

PERCEPTION : It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. (Antoine de Saint-Expery: French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator, 1900-1944)

PERCEPTION : It is the heart always that sees before the head can see. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

PERCEPTION : It's not what you look at that matters; it's what you see. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

PERCEPTION : Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

PERCEPTION : Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. (Niccolo Machiavelli: Italian diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who has often been called the 'Father of modern political philosophy and political science,' 1469-1527)

PERCEPTION : Most people think that shadows follow, precede, or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. (Elie Wiesel: Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor, 1928-2016)

PERCEPTION : Music has charms to soothe a savage beast / To soften rocks / or bend a knotted oak. (William Congreve: English playwright and poet of the Restoration period who is known for his clever, satirical dialogue, 1670-1729)

PERCEPTION : Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745)

PERCEPTION : Now that my house is burned down, I have a much better view of the moon. (Japanese Haiku: )

PERCEPTION : One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. (G. K. Chesterton: English writer, philosopher, literary and art critic, known as the 'Prince of Paradox,' 1874-1936)

PERCEPTION : People only see what they are prepared to see. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

PERCEPTION : Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. (Laura I. Wilder: U.S. novelist, 1867-1957)

PERCEPTION : Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. (Edward Steichen: Luxembourgish-American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator, 1879-1973)

PERCEPTION : Photography is the art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. (Elliott Erwitt: French-born U.S. advertising and documentary photographer, Born 1928)

PERCEPTION : Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. (Theodore N. Vail: U.S. leader of the American Telephone and Telegraph who viewed telephone service as a public utility and moved to consolidate telephone networks under the Bell system, 1845-1920)

PERCEPTION : Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others. (Ellen DeGenerous: U.S. comedian, TV host, actor, and writer, Born 1958)

PERCEPTION : Suffering is the origin of consciousness. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

PERCEPTION : The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

PERCEPTION : The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. (Henri Bergson: French-Jewish philosopher who was known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality, 1859-1941)

PERCEPTION : The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

PERCEPTION : The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people. (German Proverb: )

PERCEPTION : The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

PERCEPTION : The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of. (Charles H. Perkhurst: U.S. clergyman and social reformer who attacked the political corruption of New York City government that led to subsequent social and political reform, 1842-1933)

PERCEPTION : The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't (Kathryn Schulz: U.S. journalist and author won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, Born 1974)

PERCEPTION : The most important thing in communication is to hear what is not being said. (Peter Drucker: Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, 1909-2005)

PERCEPTION : The path is never clear until it’s passed. (Rachel Barenbaum: U.S. novelist, author of "A Bend in the Stars")

PERCEPTION : The softer you sing, the louder you're heard. (Donovan: Scottish musician, songwriter, and record producer, Born 1946)

PERCEPTION : The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. (John V. Chaney: U.S. poet, essayist, and librarian. 1848-11822)

PERCEPTION : The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

PERCEPTION : The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. (William M. Thackeray: British novelist, 1811-1863)

PERCEPTION : The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. (William Butler Yeats: Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature, 1865-1939)

PERCEPTION : There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt. (Audre Lorde: U.S. writer, feminist, librarian, and civil rights activist, 1934-1992)

PERCEPTION : There are none so blind as those who will not see. (English proverb: )

PERCEPTION : There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

PERCEPTION : They sicken of calm, who know the storm. (Dorothy Parker: U.S. writer, satirist, social critic, 1893-1967)

PERCEPTION : Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden. (Unknown Source: )

PERCEPTION : Through the picture, I see reality. Through the word, I understand it. (Sven Lidman: Swedish military officer, poet, writer, and preacher, 1882-1960)

PERCEPTION : To be blind is bad, but it is worse to have eyes and not see. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

PERCEPTION : Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745)

PERCEPTION : We are not troubled by things, but by the opinion which we have of things (Epictetus: Greek Stoic philosopher who was born into slavery and then lived in Rome until his banishment, Died 135 A.D.)

PERCEPTION : We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them (Phyllis Bottome: British novelist and short story writer., 1884-1963)

PERCEPTION : We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them. (Unknown Source: )

PERCEPTION : We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977)

PERCEPTION : We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon. (Walter Bagehot: British journalist and businessman, 1826-1877)

PERCEPTION : What the Caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly (Richard Bach: U.S. author who has written numerous works of fiction and also non-fiction flight-related titles, Born 1936)

PERCEPTION : What the student calls a tragedy, the master calls a butterfly. (Unknown Source: )

PERCEPTION : What we see depends mainly on what we look for. (John Lubbock: English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist, and polymath who coined the terms 'Paleolithic' and 'Neolithic' to denote the Old and New Stone Ages, respectively, 1834-1913)

PERCEPTION : When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

PERCEPTION : When the familiar has become somewhat strange to you, it’s never quite the same again. (Unknown Source: )

PERCEPTION : When you change the way you view things, the things you look at change. (Unknown Source: )

PERCEPTION : When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. (Wayne W. Dyer: U.S. author and motivational speaker, 1940-2015)

PERCEPTION : Why is it that one can look at a lion . . . or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair? (Walker Percy: U.S. author writer whose interests included philosophy and semiotics, 1916-1990)

PERCEPTION : You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

PERCEPTION : You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. (Harper Lee: U.S. novelist widely known for "To Kill a Mockingbird," for which she received a Pulitzer Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1926-2016)

PERCEPTION : Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

PERCEPTIVENESS : Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. (William E. Channing: U.S. Unitarian preacher and one of Unitarian's foremost theologians, 1780-1842)

PERFECTION : Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good. (William A. McDonough: U.S. architect and the dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, Born 1951)

PERFECTION : Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognize it. (Kakuzo Okakura: Japanese scholar and art critic who in the era of Meiji Restoration reform promoted a critical appreciation of traditional forms, customs and belief, 1863-1913)

PERFECTION : Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence. (Vince Lombardi: U.S. football player, championship coach, and executive in the National Football League, 1913-1970)

PERFECTION : Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. (Robert Hillyer: U.S. poet and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1895-1961)

PERFECTION : The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. (Eugene Delacroix: French artist who was known as the leader of the French Romantic school, 1798-1963)

PERFECTION : The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

PERFECTION : The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all. (Pablo Casals: Spanish cellist, conductor, and composer, 1876-1973)

PERFECTION : The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. (George Will: U.S. conservative political commentator and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, Born 1941)

PERFECTION : Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress. (Seth Godin: U.S. author and former dot com business executive, Born 1960)

PERFECTIONISM : Done is better than perfect. (Sheryl Sandburg: U.S. technology executive, philanthropist, and writer, Born 1969)

PERFECTIONISM : Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order. (Anne W. Schaef: U.S. author, speaker, consultant, and seminar leader, Born 1935)

PERFECTIONISM : We cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good. (Italian Proverb: )

PERFORMANCE : Good is not good, where better is expected. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

PERMANENCE : There is nothing permanent except change. (Heraclitus: Pre-Socratic Ionian Greek philosopher, and a native of the city of Ephesus, in modern day Turkey and then part of the Persian Empire, 535—475 B.C.E.)

PERPLEXITY : Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

PERSEVERANCE : A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure. (Unknown Source: )

PERSEVERANCE : A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence. (Unknown Source: )

PERSEVERANCE : A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others have thrown at him. (David Brinkley: U.S. newscaster in a career lasting 54 years, 1920-2003)

PERSEVERANCE : All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them. (Angela Davis: U.S. activist, author, and professor, Born 1944)

PERSEVERANCE : Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. (J. R. Oppenheimer: U.S. theoretical physicist, one among those who are credited with being the 'Father of the atomic bomb,' 1904-1967)

PERSEVERANCE : As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come. (Ernest Hemingway: U.S. novelist, short story writer, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1899-1961)

PERSEVERANCE : Better to die standing than to live on your knees. (Ernesto Che Guevara: Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist, 1928-1967)

PERSEVERANCE : Birch trees bend in a storm but don’t break. (Unknown Source: )

PERSEVERANCE : By perseverance the snails reached the ark. (Charles H. Spurgeon: English Particular Baptist preacher who opposed the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day, 1834-1892)

PERSEVERANCE : Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990)

PERSEVERANCE : Don't deny your challenges. Embrace them! (David S. Tatel: U.S. lawyer who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Born 1942)

PERSEVERANCE : Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. (Will Rogers: U.S. stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, newspaper columnist, and social commentator, 1879-1935)

PERSEVERANCE : Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. (Samuel Beckett: Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator, 1906-1989)

PERSEVERANCE : Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947)

PERSEVERANCE : Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. (Mason Cooley: U.S. aphorist, Born 1927)

PERSEVERANCE : Find what you love and let it kill you. (Charles Bukowski: German–American poet, novelist, and short story writer, 1920-1994)

PERSEVERANCE : Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

PERSEVERANCE : Happy are those who dream dreams and who are ready to pay the price to make them come true. (Antoine de Saint-Expery: French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator, 1900-1944)

PERSEVERANCE : He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him. (Dutch Proverb: )

PERSEVERANCE : I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

PERSEVERANCE : I never dreamed about success. I worked for it. (Estee Lauder: U.S. business woman and cosmetics pioneer)

PERSEVERANCE : If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. (William E. Hickson: British educational writer, 1803-1870)

PERSEVERANCE : If there's no struggle, there's no progress. (Frederick Douglass: African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895)

PERSEVERANCE : If you are going through hell, keep going. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

PERSEVERANCE : If you believe in something, work nights and weekends. It won't feel like work. (Kevin Rose: U.S. Internet entrepreneur, Born 1977)

PERSEVERANCE : If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

PERSEVERANCE : If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)

PERSEVERANCE : If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend. (Joseph Addison: English essayist, poet, playwright, politician, and co-founder of 'The Spectator' magazine, 1672-1719)

PERSEVERANCE : If you're going through hell, keep going. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

PERSEVERANCE : It always seems impossible until it's done. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013)

PERSEVERANCE : It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.)

PERSEVERANCE : It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that," [said the Queen]. (Lewis Carroll: English writer, mathematician, and logician whose most famous writings are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," 1832-1898)

PERSEVERANCE : It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit in life . . . and keep moving forward. (Randy Pausch: U.S. professor of computer science and design, 1960-2008)

PERSEVERANCE : I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. (Steve Jobs: U.S. business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor, 1955-2011)

PERSEVERANCE : Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

PERSEVERANCE : Luck is not chance—It’s Toil. (Emily Dickinson: U.S. poet, 1830-1886)

PERSEVERANCE : Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

PERSEVERANCE : Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.. (Dale Carnegie: U.S. developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, public speaking, and interpersonal skills, 1888-1955)

PERSEVERANCE : Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. (F. S. Fitzgerald: U.S. fiction writer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, 1896-1940)

PERSEVERANCE : Never, ever let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do. (Note: Beethoven was deaf but was a musician. (Tom Hiddleston: English actor, Born 1981)

PERSEVERANCE : On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

PERSEVERANCE : Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

PERSEVERANCE : Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence. (Vince Lombardi: U.S. football player, championship coach, and executive in the National Football League, 1913-1970)

PERSEVERANCE : Perseverance . . . inspite of all obstacles . . . it is this that in all things distinguishes the strong from the weak. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

PERSEVERANCE : Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore. (Unknown Source: )

PERSEVERANCE : Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time. (Ruth B. Ginsburg: U.S. lawyer, jurist, and the second female Associate Justice to be confirmed to the U.S Supreme Court, Born 1933)

PERSEVERANCE : Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. (Harper Lee: U.S. novelist widely known for "To Kill a Mockingbird," for which she received a Pulitzer Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1926-2016)

PERSEVERANCE : Roots grow strongest when storms teach them to hold. (Unknown Source: )

PERSEVERANCE : Seek knowledge from the cradle to the coffin. (Muhammad (Prophet): )

PERSEVERANCE : Some say it’s holding on that makes you strong. Sometimes it’s letting go. (Herman Hesse: German-born poet, painter, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize In Literature, whose works include "Steppenwolf," and "Siddhartha," 1877-1962)

PERSEVERANCE : Storms make trees take deeper roots. (Dolly Parton: U.S. singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in country music, Born 1946)

PERSEVERANCE : Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

PERSEVERANCE : Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

PERSEVERANCE : Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out. (Robert Collier: U.S. author of self-help and metaphysical books in the 20th century, 1885-1950)

PERSEVERANCE : The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. (Unknown Source: )

PERSEVERANCE : The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)

PERSEVERANCE : The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing. (Unknown Source: )

PERSEVERANCE : The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs — one step at a time. (Joe Girard: U.S. salesman, motivational speaker, and author, 1928-2019)

PERSEVERANCE : The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs . . . one step at a time. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

PERSEVERANCE : The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. (Walter Bagehot: British journalist and businessman, 1826-1877)

PERSEVERANCE : The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight / But they, while their companions slept / Were toiling upward in the night. (Henry W. Longfellow: U.S. poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline," 1807-1882)

PERSEVERANCE : The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.)

PERSEVERANCE : The pain of holding on is always greater than the pain of letting go. (Unknown Source: )

PERSEVERANCE : The path is never clear until it’s passed. (Rachel Barenbaum: U.S. novelist, author of "A Bend in the Stars")

PERSEVERANCE : The secret of success is constancy to purpose. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)

PERSEVERANCE : The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed. (Chinese Proverb: )

PERSEVERANCE : The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going. (Molly Haskell: U.S. feminist film critic and author, Born 1939)

PERSEVERANCE : The world doesn't come to the clever folks; it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people. (Mary R. Rinehart: U.S writer, 1876-1958)

PERSEVERANCE : The world is only what you shape it to be. (J. K. Rowling: British novelist who is best known for writing the 'Harry Potter' fantasy series., Born 1965)

PERSEVERANCE : There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway. (Mark Burnett: British author and television producer, Born 1960)

PERSEVERANCE : To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. (Mother Teresa: Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who spent most of her life in Calcutta, India, 1910-1997)

PERSEVERANCE : Tough times never last, but tough people do. (Unknown Source: )

PERSEVERANCE : Trouble, like the hill ahead, straightens out when you advance upon it. (Marcelene Cox: U.S. writer, 1899-1998)

PERSEVERANCE : Try again, fail again. Fail better. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902)

PERSEVERANCE : Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress. (Seth Godin: U.S. author and former dot com business executive, Born 1960)

PERSEVERANCE : We can learn a lot from trees: they’re always grounded but never stop reaching heavenward. (Everett Mamor: U.S. author)

PERSEVERANCE : We conquer by continuing. (George Matheson: Scottish minister and hymn writer who was blind from his youth, 1842-1906)

PERSEVERANCE : We need to take risks. We need to go broke. We need to prove them wrong, simply by not giving up. (Awkwafina: U.S. actress, rapper, and comedian, Born 1988)

PERSEVERANCE : When someone tells me “no,” it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them. (Karen E. Miller: U.S. best-selling author, contributor to 'The Huntington Post')

PERSEVERANCE : When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. (Unknown Source: )

PERSEVERANCE : When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

PERSEVERANCE : When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row. (Alice Paul: U.S. Quaker, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,1885-1977)

PERSEVERANCE : When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. (Franklin D. Roosevelt: U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)

PERSEVERANCE : When you reach the top, keep climbing. (Zen proverb: )

PERSEVERANCE : Where there's a will, there's a way. (English proverb: )

PERSEVERANCE : Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving (Paul Kalanathi: U.S. surgeon and writer, 1977-2015)

PERSEVERANCE : You have not failed until you quit trying. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

PERSISTENCE : A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence. (Unknown Source: )

PERSISTENCE : All things are difficult before they are easy. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

PERSISTENCE : Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. (George S. Patton Jr.: U.S. Army General who commanded the military in World War II, both in the Mediterranean and in France and Germany, 1885-1945)

PERSISTENCE : Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. (Sam Levenson: U.S. humorist, television host, and journalist, 1911-1980)

PERSISTENCE : Energy and persistence conquer all things. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

PERSISTENCE : Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. (Wendell Phillips: U.S. attorney, abolitionist, and advocate for Native Americans, 1811-1884)

PERSISTENCE : Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

PERSISTENCE : Find what you love and let it kill you. (Charles Bukowski: German–American poet, novelist, and short story writer, 1920-1994)

PERSISTENCE : I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

PERSISTENCE : If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. (Henry W. Longfellow: U.S. poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline," 1807-1882)

PERSISTENCE : It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.)

PERSISTENCE : Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. (Hal Borland: U.S. author and journalist, 1900-1978)

PERSISTENCE : Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.. (Dale Carnegie: U.S. developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, public speaking, and interpersonal skills, 1888-1955)

PERSISTENCE : The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs — one step at a time. (Joe Girard: U.S. salesman, motivational speaker, and author, 1928-2019)

PERSISTENCE : The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. (George Will: U.S. conservative political commentator and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, Born 1941)

PERSISTENCE : The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. (Bible, Ecclesiastes 9:11: )

PERSISTENCE : The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

PERSISTENCE : The tallest oak in the forest was once a little nut that held the ground. (Unknown Source: )

PERSISTENCE : When nothing seems to help, I think of a stone-cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before together. (Jacob A. Riis: Danish-American social reformer, journalist, and social documentary photographer, 1849-1914)

PERSISTENCE : You are not the darkness you endured. You are the light that refused to surrender. (John M. Green: U.S. technology instructor, poet, and short-story writer)

PERSONALITY : Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. (William M. Thackeray: British novelist, 1811-1863)

PERSONALITY : Handsome is that handsome does. (Henry Fielding: English novelist, dramatist, London magistrate, and considered to be the founder of London's first police force, 1707-1754)

PERSONALITY : Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. (Unknown Source: )

PERSONALITY : There are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

PERSONALITY : Two people can be as different from one another as night and day, or ‘chalk and cheese’. (John Gower: 14th century English poet, author of ‘The Lover’s Confession,’ and friend of Chaucer, 1325 (?)-1403)

PERSONALITY : You change for two reasons: either you learn enough that you want to, or you've been hurt enough that you have to. (Kate Megahan: U.S. district manager of Faber, Coe, & Gregg for careers in retail)

PERSONHOOD : Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

PERSONS : It’s not about being a strong woman — it’s about being a strong person. (Billie Lourd: US. actress who appeared in the 'Star Wars sequel trilogy', Born 1992)

PERSPECTIVES : A fish can’t see water unless it jumps out of the water. (Chinese Proverb: )

PERSPECTIVES : I've come to doubt all that I once held as true. (Paul Simon: U.S. politician who served both in the House of Representatives and the Senate, 1928-2003)

PERSPECTIVES : If you don't read, you will only know your opinion. (Unknown Source: )

PERSPECTIVES : It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out—it's the grain of sand in your shoe. (Robert W. Service: British-Canadian poet and writer, often called 'the Bard of the Yukon,' 1874-1958)

PERSPECTIVES : There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

PERSPICACITY : Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. (William E. Channing: U.S. Unitarian preacher and one of Unitarian's foremost theologians, 1780-1842)

PERSUASION : It is easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar. (English proverb: )

PERSUASION : The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion. (Thomas B. Macaulay: British historian, author, and politician, 1800-1859)

PERSUASION : Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading. (Diogenes Laertius: c.180-240 A..D.)

PERSUASION : Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B', 'A' is most likely a scoundrel. (H. L. Mencken: U.S. journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English, 1880-1956)

PESSIMISM : A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better. (Unknown Source: )

PESSIMISM : A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities, and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. (Harry S. Truman: U.S. politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States, 1884-1972)

PESSIMISM : If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. (Isaac B. Singer: Polish-American writer in Yiddish, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and a leading figure in the Yiddish Ashkenazic literary movement, 1902-1991)

PESSIMISM : No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

PESSIMISM : Pessimism never won any battle. (Dwight D. Eisenhower: U.S. politician and five-star Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969)

PESSIMISM : Pessimism of the intellect must be balanced by the optimism of the will. (Antonio Gramsci: Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist, linguist, writer, and politician, 1891-1937)

PESSIMISM : Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege. (William Beveridge: British economist and social reformer, 1879-1963)

PESSIMISM : Some people see the sunset, some the beginning of darkness. (Unknown Source: )

PESSIMISM : The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. (James Cabell: U.S. author of fantasy fiction and other genres, 1879-1958)

PESSIMISM : What one needs in life are the pessimism of intelligence and the optimism of will. (Andre de Staercke: Belgian Ambassador to NATO - the North American Trade Organization, 1913-2001)

PESSIMIST : A pessimist is an optimist with experience. (Unknown Source: )

PESSIMIST : A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

PESSIMIST : The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

PESSIMISTS : Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

PESSIMISTS : The pessimist is half-licked before he starts (Unknown Source: )

PESSIMISTS : Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

PESTICIDES : As crude a weapon as the cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life. (Rachel Carson: U.S. marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose work advanced the global environmental movement, 1907-1964)

PETS : Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, pass no criticisms. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

PETS : Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you. (Eloisa James: U.S. professor of English literature [pen name of Mary Bly], Born 1962)

PETS : Dogs have masters; cats have staff. (Unknown Source: )

PETS : Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. (Ann Landers: U.S. syndicated advice-columnist whose work was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America and led to her becoming a cultural icon, 1918-2002)

PETS : Keep in mind . . . to a dog you are family, to a cat you are staff. (Unknown Source: )

PETS : Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. (Thornton Wilder: U.S. novelist and playwright who won three Pulitzer Prizes, 1897-1975)

PETS : Until one has loved an animal, part of her/his soul remains unawakened. (Unknown Source: )

PETS : Until people have loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

PETS : When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me. (: )

PHILANTHROPY : It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

PHILANTHROPY : It's best to give while your hand is still warm. (Philip Roth: U.S. novelist and short story writer, 1933-2018)

PHILANTHROPY : No one has ever become poor by giving. (Anne Frank: German-born diarist and Jewish victim of the Holocaust, 1929-1945)

PHILANTHROPY : The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. (Corrie Ten Boom: Dutch watchmaker who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust and was sent to a Nazi concentration camp, but later was a Christian writer and public speaker,1892-1983)

PHILANTHROPY : To have and not to give is often worse than to steal. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Austrian writer and nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1830-1916)

PHILANTHROPY : To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. (Horace Mann: U.S. politician and educational reformer, 1796-1859)

PHILOSOPHY : Philosophy is doubt. (: )

PHILOSOPHY : Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

PHILOSOPHY : The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy. (Unknown Source: )

PHILOSOPHY : The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)

PHILOSOPHY : To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

PHILOSOPHY : Whence? wither? why? how? These questions cover all philosophy. (Joseph Joubert: French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)

PHOTOGRAPHER : Every photographer is a painter trying to get out. (Pablo Picasso: Spanish painter, sculptor, ceramicist, stage designer, poet, and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)

PHOTOGRAPHS : A photograph is a mirror with a memory. (Oliver W. Holmes Sr.: U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, polymath, and physician, 1809-1894)

PHOTOGRAPHY : A pictures show me at a glance what it takes dozens of pages of a book to expound. (Ivan Turgenev: Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator, and popularizer of Russian literature in the West, 1818-1883)

PHOTOGRAPHY : A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. (Edgar W. Howe: U.S. novelist and newspaper and magazine editor 1853-1937)

PHOTOGRAPHY : Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism. (Susan Sontag: U.S. writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist, 1933-2004)

PHOTOGRAPHY : Life is not about significant details, illuminated in a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. (Susan Sontag: U.S. writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist, 1933-2004)

PHOTOGRAPHY : Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. (Edward Steichen: Luxembourgish-American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator, 1879-1973)

PHOTOGRAPHY : Photography is the art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. (Elliott Erwitt: French-born U.S. advertising and documentary photographer, Born 1928)

PHOTOGRAPHY : The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. (Susan Sontag: U.S. writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist, 1933-2004)

PHOTOGRAPHY : The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. (Ansel Adams: U.S. landscape photographer and environmentalist, who received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the U.S. Presidential Award of Freedom, 1902-1984)

PHOTOGRAPHY : The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century. (Carlos Fuentes: Mexican novelist, essayist, and diplomat, 1928-2012)

PHYSICAL THERAPY : Muscles are meant to move. (Matthew Redfern: U.S. physical therapist, Born 1987)

PHYSICIANS : As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be . . . well paid. (Jean d. Bruyere: French philosopher and moralist, 1645-1696)

PHYSICIANS : I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. (John Donne: English poet, cleric in the Church of England, and member of the English Parliament, 1572-1631)

PHYSICS : Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting. (Ernest Rutherford: New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the 'Father of Nuclear Physics,' 1871-1937)

PHYSIOLOGY : Every tooth in one’s head is attached to an acupuncture meridian that goes to a different organ in one’s body. (Unknown Source: )

PHYSIOLOGY : The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly. (Charles Reznikoff: U.S. poet, 1894-1976)

PIANISTS : The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes—ah, that is where the art resides! (Arthur Schnabel: Austrian-American classical pianist, composer, and pedagogue who was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, 1882-1951)

PICTURES : A picture is worth a thousand words. (Unknown Source: )

PICTURES : Through the picture, I see reality. Through the word, I understand it. (Sven Lidman: Swedish military officer, poet, writer, and preacher, 1882-1960)

PIETY : You must have uncertainty, confusion, chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

PIRACY : Ships are but boards, sailors but men. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

PITY : Spurned pity can turn into cruelty just as spurned love turns into hate. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Austrian writer and nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1830-1916)

PLAGIARISM : To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research. (Unknown Source: )

PLAGIARISM : To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. (Unknown Source: )

PLAGIARISM : When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life." (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

PLAINTIFFS : The burden of proof lies on the plaintiff. (Unknown Source: )

PLANET : How inappropriate it is to call this planet 'Earth' when it is quite clearly ocean. (Arthur C. Clarke: U.S. science fiction writer and undersea explorer, 1917-2008)

PLANNING : A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. (George S. Patton Jr.: U.S. Army General who commanded the military in World War II, both in the Mediterranean and in France and Germany, 1885-1945)

PLANNING : A man without a plan for the day is lost before he starts. (Unknown Source: )

PLANNING : A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. (Andre Gide: French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)

PLANNING : A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. (Louis L'Amour: U.S. author of novels and short stories, many of which were made into films, 1908-1988)

PLANNING : Buildings should be good neighbors. (Paul Thiry: U.S. architect most active in Washington state, known as the 'Father of architectural modernism in the Pacific Northwest,' 1904-1993)

PLANNING : By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

PLANNING : Chance favors the prepared mind. (Louis Pasteur: French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, 1822-1895)

PLANNING : Coming events cast their shadows before. (Thomas Campbell: Scottish poet, co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, and an initiator of what became the University College London, 1777-1844)

PLANNING : Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

PLANNING : Dig the well before you are thirsty. (Chinese Proverb: )

PLANNING : Don’t throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. (Swedish Proverb: )

PLANNING : Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934)

PLANNING : Either you run the day or the day runs you. (Jim Rohn: U.S. entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker, 1930-2009)

PLANNING : Form follows function. (Louis H. Sullivan: U.S. architect who has been called the 'Father of skyscrapers' and who posthumously received the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects, 1856-1924)

PLANNING : Goals are only wishes unless you have a plan. (Unknown Source: )

PLANNING : If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.)

PLANNING : If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed. (Chinese Proverb: )

PLANNING : If you want your ship to come in, you must build a dock. (Unknown Source: )

PLANNING : In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse. (Unknown Source: )

PLANNING : It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains! (Alice C. Rice: U.S. novelist who wrote over two dozen books, the most famous of which is "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," 1870-1942)

PLANNING : It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. (Douglas Hofstadter: U.S. scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature, Born 1945)

PLANNING : It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

PLANNING : It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

PLANNING : It takes time to save time. (Unknown Source: )

PLANNING : It's a bad plan that can't be changed. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

PLANNING : Knowing exactly how much of the future can be introduced into the present is the secret of great government. (Victor Hugo: French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)

PLANNING : Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. (John Lennon: English musician, singer, and songwriter who was a founding member of the rock band, the Beatles, 1940-1980)

PLANNING : Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. (Ray Bradbury: U.S. author and screenwriter who wrote in a variety of genres, 1920-2012)

PLANNING : Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go. (Thomas Tusser: English poet and farmer, 1524-1580)

PLANNING : Luck is good planning, carefully executed. (Unknown Source: )

PLANNING : Luck is the residue of design. (Branch Rickey: U.S. baseball player and sports executive, 1881-1965)

PLANNING : Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

PLANNING : Most people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan. (John L. Beckley: U.S. athlete and writer, Born 1971)

PLANNING : No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. (: )

PLANNING : One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures. (Josiah G. Holland: U.S. novelist, poet, and co-founder/editor of 'Scribner's Monthly,' 1819-1881)

PLANNING : Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. (David Bly: U.S. teacher and politician, Born 1952)

PLANNING : The best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry. (Robert Burns: Scottish poet and lyricist who is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide, 1759-1796)

PLANNING : The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. (Christian Bovee: U.S. writer of aphorisms, 1820-1904)

PLANNING : The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill. (Anna Jameson: Anglo-Irish writer and art historian, 1794-1860)

PLANNING : The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

PLANNING : The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. (Stella I. Charnaud: English philanthropist who founded the Women's Voluntary Service and became the first female member in the House of Lords, 1894-1971)

PLANNING : To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. (Chinese Proverb: )

PLANNING : We all have two choices. We can make a living OR we can design a life. (Unknown Source: )

PLANNING : We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. (Joseph Campbell: U.S. mythologist, writer, and lecturer, 1904-l987)

PLANNING : Well begun is half done (Horace: Roman lyric poet, 65 B.C.E.- 8 B.C.E)

PLANNING : What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it from happening again. (Anne Frank: German-born diarist and Jewish victim of the Holocaust, 1929-1945)

PLANNING : When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

PLANNING : When you don't know what harbor you're aiming for, no wind is the right wind. (Unknown Source: )

PLANNING : You can hide the fire, but what are you going to do to rid the smoke? (Joel C. Harris: U.S. journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist, 1848-1908)

PLANNING : You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs. (Francois de Charette: French Royalist soldier and politician, 1763-1796)

PLANS : It's an ill plan that cannot be changed. (Latin Proverb: )

PLANS : Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take. (Angela N. Blount: U.S. author and memoirist, Born 1931)

PLANTS : In some native languages, the term for ‘plants’ translates to ‘those who take care of us.’ (Robin W. Kimmerer: U.S. Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology; Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, Born 1953)

PLANTS : Plants know how to make food and medicine from light and water, and then they give it away. (Robin W. Kimmerer: U.S. Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology; Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, Born 1953)

PLAY : It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. (Leo Buscaglia: U.S professor and a motivational speaker, 1924-1998)

PLAY : The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. (Arnold Toynbee: British professor, historian, and leading specialist in international affairs, 1889-1975)

PLAY : When I think of the sorrows and regrets of my life, not one of them is associated with the times I’ve stopped working and took time off to play. (Robert Fulghum: U.S. author and Unitarian Universalist minister, Born 1937)

PLAY : Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

PLAY : Workaholics commit slow suicide by refusing to allow the child inside them to play. (Laurence Susser: U.S. medical doctor-anesthesiologist)

PLAYWRITING : Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. (Thornton Wilder: U.S. novelist and playwright who won three Pulitzer Prizes, 1897-1975)

PLEASURE : But ne'er the rose without the thorn. (Robert Herrick: English lyric poet and cleric, 1591-1674)

PLEASURE : Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in. (John D. Rockefeller Sr.: U.S. business magnate and philanthropist who is widely considered the wealthiest U.S. American of all time, and the richest person in modern history, 1839-1937)

PLEASURE : Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. (Soren, Kierkegaard: Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher, 1813-1855)

PLEASURE : Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

PLEASURE : Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. (Nicolas de Chamfort: French writer, best known for his witty epigrams and aphorisms, 1741-1794)

PLEASURE : Seize the day! (Carpe diem) (Horace: Roman lyric poet, 65 B.C.E.- 8 B.C.E)

PLEASURE : The man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

PLEASURE : The price spoils the pleasure. (French Proverb: )

PLEASURE : The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. (Aaron Burr: U.S. politician. lawyer, and third U.S. vice-president serving during President Thomas Jefferson's first term., 1756-1836)

PLEASURE : The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Johann (Jean) P. Richter: German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. 1763-1825)

PLEASURE : There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness. (Unknown Source: )

PLUCK : The lucky fellow is the plucky fellow who has been burning midnight oil and taking defeat after defeat with a smile. (James B. Hill: U.S. inventor, 1856-1945)

PLURALISM : Just as cosmic pluralism entertains the possibility of diverse forms of life in the universe, societal pluralism emphasizes the importance of appreciating diverse identities, cultures, and worldviews on Earth. (Anaximander: Pre-Socratic philosopher and author of the first surviving lines of Western philosophy, 611 B.C.-546 B.C.)

PLURALISM : Out of many, one (E Pluribus Unum) (Pierre-Eugene d. Simitiere: Swiss-American philosopher and artist who suggested "In Pluribus Unum" (Out of Many one) as the motto for the U.S.A., 1736-1784)

PLURALISM : Pluralism: We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. (James (Jimmy) Carter: U.S. politician and humanitarian who served from 1977 to 1981 as the 39th president of the United States and was also the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1924-2024)

PLURALSIM : To see the other side, to defend another people, not despite our tradition but because of it, is the heart of pluralism. (Eboo Patel: U.S. founder of Interfaith Youth Core, Born 1975)

POETRY : A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)

POETRY : A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. (Jose Marti: Cuban revolutionary, journalist, and poet, 1853-1895)

POETRY : A picture is a poem without words. (Unknown Source: )

POETRY : Eloquence is the poetry of prose. (William C. Bryant: U.S. romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post, 1794-1878)

POETRY : Every man is a poet when he is in love. (Unknown Source: )

POETRY : For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. (Sylvia Plath: U.S. poet, novelist, and short-story writer, 1932-1963)

POETRY : For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. (Robert P. Warren: U.S. poet, novelist, literary critic, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, 1905-1989)

POETRY : Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. (T. S. Eliot: U.S.- born essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature who at age 39 became a British subject, subsequently renouncing his U.S. passport, 1888-1965)

POETRY : If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. (Thomas Hardy: English novelist and poet who was highly critical of much in Victorian society, 1840-1928)

POETRY : In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in the case of poetry, it's the exact opposite. (Paul Dirac: English theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics and electrodynamics 1902-1984)

POETRY : It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. (William C. Williams: Puerto Rican-American poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism, 1883-1963)

POETRY : Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do. (Cyril Connolly: English literary critic, writer, and editor, 1903-1974)

POETRY : Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry. (William Butler Yeats: Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature, 1865-1939)

POETRY : One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. (Unknown Source: )

POETRY : Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. (Simonides: Greek lyric poet, c.556—c.468 B.C.E.)

POETRY : Painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later. (Joan Miro: Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist, 1893-1983)

POETRY : Poetry came before reading and writing. (Camron Wright: U.S. author)

POETRY : Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry. (Gustave Flaubert: French novelist and author of "Madame Bovary," 1821-1880)

POETRY : Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. (Matthew Arnold: English poet and cultural critic, 1822-1888)

POETRY : Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. (Marianne Moore: U.S. modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature, 1887-1972)

POETRY : Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind. (Maxwell Bodenheim: U.S. poet and novelist whose writing brought him international notoriety in the 1920s during the Jazz Age, 1892-1954)

POETRY : Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment. (Carl Sandburg: U.S. poet, biographer, journalist, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln, 1878-1967)

POETRY : Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti: U.S. poet and painter, 1919-2021)

POETRY : Poetry, the eldest sister of all arts, and parent of most. (William Congreve: English playwright and poet of the Restoration period who is known for his clever, satirical dialogue, 1670-1729)

POETRY : Poetry, therefore, we will call 'Musical Thought.' (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

POETRY : Science is for those who learn; poetry for those who know. (Joseph Roux: French Catholic parish priest, poet, and philologist, 1834-1905)

POETRY : The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice. (Earle Birney: Canadian poet and novelist, 1904-1995)

POETRY : The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences. (Oliver W. Holmes Sr.: U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, polymath, and physician, 1809-1894)

POETRY : Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)

POETS : All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal. (Henry W. Longfellow: U.S. poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline," 1807-1882)

POETS : Nations are born in the hearts of poets, but they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. (Mohammad Iqbal: Indian poet, philosopher, and politician of British India, 1877-1938)

POETS : No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher. (Harley Coleridge: English poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher who was the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1796-1849)

POETS : Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world (Percy B. Shelley: English Romantic poet, who is regarded by some as among the finest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language, 1792-1822)

POETS : Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

POETS : The poet is the priest of the invisible. (Wallace Stevens: U.S. modernist poet, business executive, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his "Collected Poems," 1879-1955)

POETS : The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. (Jean Cocteau: French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist, and critic, 1889-1963)

polarization : If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other. (Ulysses S. Grant: 18th president of the United States, who 1865, as commanding general, Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War, 1822-1885)

POLICIES : At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done. Then they begin to hope it can be done. Then they see it can be done. Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. (Frances H. Burnett: British-American novelist and playwright, 1849-1924)

POLITENESS : Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. (Abel Stevens: U.S. clergyman, editor, and author of religious history, 1815-1897)

POLITENESS : Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. (Madame de Stael: French-Swiss woman of letters, historian, and author, 1766-1817)

POLITENESS : Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy. (Ambrose Bierce: U.S. Civil War soldier, wit, writer, and editor, 1842-1914)

POLITENESS : When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered. (Unknown Source: )

POLITICIANS : A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth. (Michael Kinsley: U.S. political journalist and commentator, Born 1951)

POLITICIANS : A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. (Texas Guinan: U.S. actress, producer, and entrepreneur, 1884-1933)

POLITICIANS : A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation. (James F. Clarke: U.S. theologian and author, 1810-1888)

POLITICIANS : All one needs is core common sense but to be born with trousers instead of petticoats. (Clementine Churchill: British wife of Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and a life peer in her own right, 1885-1977))

POLITICIANS : Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

POLITICIANS : Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for . . . they make many others die with them, often before them, and, at times instead of them. (Umberto Eco: Italian novelist, literary critic, and semiotician, 1932-2016)

POLITICIANS : I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. (Unknown Source: )

POLITICIANS : In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. (Charles De Gaulle: French military general and statesman who founded France's Fifth Republic and was elected as the President of France, 1890-1970)

POLITICIANS : It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he adores the flag. (Kin Hubbard: U.S. cartoonist, humorist, and journalist, 1868-1930)

POLITICIANS : Nations are born in the hearts of poets, but they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. (Mohammad Iqbal: Indian poet, philosopher, and politician of British India, 1877-1938)

POLITICIANS : Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason. (Eca d. Quieiroz: Portuguese writer, considered to among the greatest in the realist style, 1845-1900)

POLITICIANS : Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

POLITICIANS : Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. (Nikita Khrushchev: Russian politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1894-1971)

POLITICIANS : Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. (Thurgood Marshall: U.S. civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice, 1908-1993)

POLITICIANS : The heart of a statesman should be in his head. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

POLITICIANS : When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

POLITICIANS : Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

POLITICS : A full belly to the labourer is, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace. (William Cobbett: British radical pamphleteer, journalist, and member of Parliament, 1763-1835)

POLITICS : A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

POLITICS : A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. (Edward R. Murrow: U.S. war correspondent during World War II and broadcast journalist, 1908-1965)

POLITICS : All politics is local. (Thomas [Tip] O'Neill Jr.: U.S. politician who served as the 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, 1912-1984)

POLITICS : An eminent U.S. American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate.' (James Bryce: British politician, diplomat, and historian best known for his highly successful ambassadorship to the United States and for his study of U.S. politics, 1838-1922)

POLITICS : Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

POLITICS : Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797)

POLITICS : Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. (George J. Nathan: U.S. drama critic, author, and editor of literary magazines, 1882-1958)

POLITICS : Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

POLITICS : Equality is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. (Hannah Arendt: German-born, U.S. political theorist who is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, 1906-1975)

POLITICS : Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. (Vaclav Havel: Czech writer, political dissident, and politician who first served as the last president of Czechoslovakia and then as the first president of the Czech Republic after the Czech-Slovak split, 1936-2011)

POLITICS : Everybody know that politics is a contact sport. (Barack Obama: U.S. politician who served as the 44th President of the United States, the first African American to assume the presidency, Born 1961)

POLITICS : Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. (Werner Finck: German comedian, actor, and author, 1902-1978)

POLITICS : Everyone can hear you when you vote. (Barack Obama: U.S. politician who served as the 44th President of the United States, the first African American to assume the presidency, Born 1961)

POLITICS : Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. (George Washington: U.S. politician and soldier who served as the first President of the United States and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, 1732-1799)

POLITICS : Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. (Hubert Humphrey: U.S. senator who then served as Vice-President, 1911-1978)

POLITICS : Give the people bread and circuses [diversion], and they will go along with it. (Julius Caesar: Roman dictator, politician, and military general who played a critical role in the rise of the Roman Empire, 100—44 B.C.E.)

POLITICS : Great leaders use ambiguity but avoid unpredictability. (Martin Dempsey: United States Army general who served as the 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Born 1952)

POLITICS : Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength. (Blaise Pascal: French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and writer who wrote in defense of the scientific method, 1623-1662)

POLITICS : History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from it . . . It’s not yours to erase or destroy. (Brian Weiner: U.S. political theorist, with a doctorate from U.C. Berkeley)

POLITICS : History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. (Aba Eban: Israeli politician and diplomat, 1915-2002)

POLITICS : I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election. (Warren Buffett: U.S. business magnate, investor, and philanthropist, Born 1930)

POLITICS : I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political. (Barbara Kingsolver: U.S. novelist, essayist, and poet, Born 1955)

POLITICS : If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

POLITICS : If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the world. (Claude Pepper: U.S. senator and representative, 1900-1989)

POLITICS : If politics is the art of the possible, compromise is the artistry of democracy. (Amy Gutmann: U.S. professor of Political Science and President of the University of Pennsylvania, Born 1949)

POLITICS : If you are comfortable in your coalition, then your coalition is too small. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

POLITICS : If you pluck a chicken one feather at a time, nobody notices. (Benito Mussolini: Italian politician and journalist who was the leader of the National Fascist Party, 1883-1945)

POLITICS : In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

POLITICS : In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. (Desiderius Erasmus: Dutch philosopher and scholar, considered to have been one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance. (1466-1536))

POLITICS : It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. (Robert A. Heinlein: U.S. science-Fiction writer, often called the 'dean of science-fiction writers,' 1907-1988)

POLITICS : It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe. (Anne Bronte: English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Bronte literary family, 1820-1849)

POLITICS : It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. (Unknown Source: )

POLITICS : It is inaccurate to say I hate everything related to politics. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. (H. L. Mencken: U.S. journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English, 1880-1956)

POLITICS : It's better to have your enemies inside the tent than outside. (J. E. Hoover: U.S. law enforcement administrator who served as the first Director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.), 1895-1972)

POLITICS : Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. (Unknown Source: )

POLITICS : Money is the mother's milk of politics. (Jesse Unruh: U.S. Democratic politician, 1922-1987)

POLITICS : More for me. Less for we. (Matthew Desmond: U.S. author, sociologist, and professor at Princeton University who has received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Born 1979/80)

POLITICS : My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged. (Euripides: One of the three ancient Greek tragedians, Aeschylus and Sophocles, who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, c.485—406 B.C.E.)

POLITICS : Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back. (Gore Vidal: U.S. writer and political pundit, 1925-2012)

POLITICS : One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged. (Richard Hofstadter: U.S. historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century who was the DeWitt Clinton Professor a U.S. History at Columbia University (1916-1970))

POLITICS : People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election. (Otto von Bismarck: Prussian conservative statesman who dominated European affairs from the 1860s until 1890, by which he united Germany, and formed the German Empire, 1815-1898)

POLITICS : Political action is best when it accomplishes the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. (Francis Hutcheson: Scottish philosopher, 1694-1746)

POLITICS : Political equality is meaningless in the face of economic inequality. (Franklin D. Roosevelt: U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)

POLITICS : Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. (Mao Zedong: Chinese communist revolutionary, political theorist, and founder of the People's Republic of China, 1893-1976)

POLITICS : Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797)

POLITICS : Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with. (Will Rogers: U.S. stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, newspaper columnist, and social commentator, 1879-1935)

POLITICS : Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. (Ronald Reagan: U.S. actor and politician who served as the 40th President of the United States, 1911-2004)

POLITICS : Politics is the art of the possible. (Otto von Bismarck: Prussian conservative statesman who dominated European affairs from the 1860s until 1890, by which he united Germany, and formed the German Empire, 1815-1898)

POLITICS : Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other. (Oscar Ameringer: German-American Socialist editor, author, and organizer, 1870-1943)

POLITICS : Politics, as a practice . . . has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. (Henry B. Adams: U.S. historian and descendant of two U.S. presidents, 1838-1918)

POLITICS : Politics, it seems to me . . . for years has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. (Richard Armour: U.S. poet and author of more than 65 books, 1906-1989)

POLITICS : Russia is "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.'' (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

POLITICS : Small islands not capable of protecting themselves are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something very absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)

POLITICS : Some people approach every problem with an open mouth. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)

POLITICS : Speak softly and carry a big stick. (Theodore Roosevelt: U.S. statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th U.S. president, 1858-1919)

POLITICS : States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters. (Unknown Source: )

POLITICS : That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning. (John G. Diefenbaker: Canadian politician and Canada's 13th prime minister, 1895-1979)

POLITICS : The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of everything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. (Thomas Sowell: U.S. economist, social theorist, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Born 1930)

POLITICS : The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. (Niccolo Machiavelli: Italian diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who has often been called the 'Father of modern political philosophy and political science,' 1469-1527)

POLITICS : The great questions of the day are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron. (Otto von Bismarck: Prussian conservative statesman who dominated European affairs from the 1860s until 1890, by which he united Germany, and formed the German Empire, 1815-1898)

POLITICS : The history of the world . . . is who gets eaten and who get to eat. (Stephen Sondheim: U.S. composer and lyricist, regarded as one of the most important figures in 20th century musical theater, 1930-2021)

POLITICS : The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night. (Otto von Bismarck: Prussian conservative statesman who dominated European affairs from the 1860s until 1890, by which he united Germany, and formed the German Empire, 1815-1898)

POLITICS : The president proposes and the legislature disposes. (Unknown Source: )

POLITICS : The statesman’s task is to hear God’s footsteps marching through history, and to try to catch on His coattails as He marches past. (Otto von Bismarck: Prussian conservative statesman who dominated European affairs from the 1860s until 1890, by which he united Germany, and formed the German Empire, 1815-1898)

POLITICS : The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. (Unknown Source: )

POLITICS : The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind. (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)

POLITICS : The world is too complicated to fit into one political system. Progress is made by finding balance between competing truths—between freedom and security, diversity and solidarity. (David Brooks: U.S. author as well as political and cultural commentator, Born 1961)

POLITICS : There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. (Vladimir Lenin: Russian revolutionary and political theorist who served as the head of government of both Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union, 1870-1924)

POLITICS : There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. (Booker T. Washington: U.S. educator, author, orator, advisor to presidents of the United States, and the dominant leader in the African-American community, 1856-1915)

POLITICS : There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment—and nothing more corrupting. (A. J. P. Taylor: English historian, 1906-1990)

POLITICS : Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

POLITICS : Those who put out the people's eyes, reproach them for their blindness. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674)

POLITICS : Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

POLITICS : Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. (Bernard Baruch: U.S. financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant, 1870-1965)

POLITICS : War is merely the continuation of policy by other means. (Carl von Clausewitz: Prussian general and military theorist, 1780-1831)

POLITICS : We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. (John Buchan: Scottish poet, novelist, historian, and politician, 1875-1940)

POLITICS : We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. (Unknown Source: )

POLITICS : What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

POLITICS : When I was a boy, I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. (Clarence Darrow: U.S. leading member of the Civil Rights Union and attorney in the famous Leopold-Loeb trial, as well as the Scopes ‘Monkey’ trial, 1857-1938)

POLITICS : Where you stand depends on where you sit. (Rufus Miles: U.S. author and Federal administrator who served as an assistant secretary under three presidents, 1910-1996)

POLITICS : Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first call promising. (Cyril Connolly: English literary critic, writer, and editor, 1903-1974)

POLITICS : You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. (Rahm Emanuel: U.S. politician who served as the 55th mayor of Chicago and as the 23rd Chief of Staff of the U.S. White House, Born 1959)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : He serves his party best who serves the country best. (Rutherford B. Hayes: U.S. politician. abolitionist, and governor of the state of Ohio who later served as the 19th president of the United States, 1822-1893)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. (James Madison: Father of the U.S. Constitution and the fourth president of the United States, 1751-1836)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism. (Earl Warren: U.S. politician and jurist, who served as the Governor of California and Chief Justice of the United States, 1891-1974)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns. (Finley P. Dunne: U.S. humorist, social critic, and writer, 1867-1936)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : That’s one of my Goddam precious American rights, not to think about politics. (John Updike: U.S. novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, literary critic, and one of only three writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, 1932-2009)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : The American government gives the most help to those who need it the least—through tax breaks. (Matthew Desmond: U.S. author, sociologist, and professor at Princeton University who has received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Born 1979/80)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : The things that have made America great are being subverted for the things that make Americans rich. (Unknown Source: )

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. (Alexis de Tocqueville: French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : There is hardly any political question in the U.S. that is not soon or later turned into a judicial question. (Alexis de Tocqueville: French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : Third (political) parties are like bees: Once they have stung, they die. (Richard Hofstadter: U.S. historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century who was the DeWitt Clinton Professor a U.S. History at Columbia University (1916-1970))

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. (Theodore Roosevelt: U.S. statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th U.S. president, 1858-1919)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : Washington D.C. is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. (John K. Galbraith: U.S. Canadian-born economist, public official, diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism, 1908-2006)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. (Robert F. Kennedy: U.S. Senator, Attorney General, and civil rights activist, 1925-1968)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : We have the best congressmen that money can buy. (Joann Dearing: U.S. actress and producer)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but who is 'sitting in'—and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change. (Howard Zinn: U.S. political science professor, author, and social activist, 1922-2010)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : What Washington needs is adult supervision. (Barack Obama: U.S. politician who served as the 44th President of the United States, the first African American to assume the presidency, Born 1961)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. (Mario Cuomo: U.S. lawyer and politician who served as the 52nd Governor of New York for three terms, Born 1932)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70, or given up all hope of the Presidency. (Wendell Phillips: U.S. attorney, abolitionist, and advocate for Native Americans, 1811-1884)

POLLITICS : A Liberal is a power worshipper without power. (George Orwell: English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic, known for his outspoken support of democratic socialism, 1903-1950)

POLLITICS : Politics makes strange bedfellows. (Charles D. Warner: U.S. essayist and novelist, 1820-1900)

POLLUTION : Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray. (Irv Kupciinet: U.S. newspaper columnist and television talk-show host, 1912-2003)

POPULARITY : My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)

POPULARITY : Popular applause veers with the wind. (John Bright: British orator and radical liberal statesman, 1811-1889)

POPULATION : As a remedy to life in society, I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960)

POPULATION : We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domestic plants and animals, but rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves. (Arnold Toynbee: British professor, historian, and leading specialist in international affairs, 1889-1975)

PORNOGRAPHY : Hard-core pornography is hard to define, but I know it when I see it. (Potter Stewart: U.S. Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court , 1915-1975)

PORNOGRAPHY : Pornography is the theory, and rape is the practice. (Robin Morgan: poet, author, political theorist, activist, journalist, lecturer, and key leader of the American Women’s Movement, Born 1941)

PORNOGRAPHY : The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people, and don't come in clearly enough. (Bill Maher: U,S. comedian, political commentator, and television host, Born 1956)

POSITIVISM : Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, "I'm all right so far"? (Gretel Ehrlich: U.S. travel writer, poet, novelist, and essayist, Born 1946)

POSITIVISM : If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? (Percy B. Shelley: English Romantic poet, who is regarded by some as among the finest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language, 1792-1822)

POSITIVISM : In the long run, the pessimist may be proved to be right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. (Daniel Reardon: U.S. actor and film director, 1948-2020)

POSITIVISM : It takes less courage to be the only one to find fault than to be the only one to find favor. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Austrian writer and nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1830-1916)

POSITIVISM : Keep your face to the sunshine and you won't see the shadows. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

POSITIVISM : Sometimes . . . when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place. (J. Lynn: U.S. author of of contemporary romance and fantasy, Born1980)

POSITIVISM : Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947)

POSSESSIONS : Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. (John Ruskin: English art critic, as well as art patron, prominent social thinker, and philanthropist. 1819-1900)

POSSESSIONS : If I am what I have, and if I lose what I have, who then am I? (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980)

POSSESSIONS : It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

POSSESSIONS : Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. (Unknown Source: )

POSSESSIONS : Your worth consists in what you are, and not in what you have. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

POSSIBILITIES : A great flame follows a little spark. (Alighieri Dante: Italian poet of the Middle Ages, 1265-1321)

POSSIBILITIES : A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope. (Epictetus: Greek Stoic philosopher who was born into slavery and then lived in Rome until his banishment, Died 135 A.D.)

POSSIBILITIES : All things are possible until they are proved impossible--and even the impossible may only be so as of now. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

POSSIBILITIES : Another world is not only possible, she is on her way; on a quiet day I can hear her breathing. (Arundhati Roy: Indian author and political activist in human rights and environmental causes, Born 1961)

POSSIBILITIES : Because you are alive, everything is possible (Thich Nhat Hanh: Vietnamese-American Buddhist spiritual leader and peace activist, prolific author, poet, and teacher who was known as the 'Father of Mindfulness' and was a major influence on western practices of Buddhism, 1926-2022)

POSSIBILITIES : Clear your mind of ‘can’t.’ (Solon: Greek statesman, lawmaker, and poet who is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy, 6th century)

POSSIBILITIES : Every moment is a fresh beginning. (T. S. Eliot: U.S.- born essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature who at age 39 became a British subject, subsequently renouncing his U.S. passport, 1888-1965)

POSSIBILITIES : Every wall has a gate. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

POSSIBILITIES : Everything is impossible unless it happens. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013)

POSSIBILITIES : For big disruptive ideas, look for people who have a healthy disregard for the impossible. (Larry Page: U.S. computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin, Born 1973)

POSSIBILITIES : Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. (William S. Coffin: U.S. Christian clergyman, long-time peace activist, and CIA officer, 1924-2006)

POSSIBILITIES : In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities (Janos Arany: Hungarian poet, writer, translator and journalist, known as the"Shakespeare of Ballads, 1817-1882)

POSSIBILITIES : Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. (Robert Fulghum: U.S. author and Unitarian Universalist minister, Born 1937)

POSSIBILITIES : Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

POSSIBILITIES : Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. (Jean de la Fontaine: French fable writer and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century, 1621-1695)

POSSIBILITIES : Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible’! (Audrey Hepburn: British actress and humanitarian who was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Golden Age of Hollywood, 1929-1993)

POSSIBILITIES : On the human chessboard, all moves are possible. (Miriam Schiff: U.S. journalist and film director of the 'Vagina Monologues')

POSSIBILITIES : Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about. (Alexandra Ripley: U.S. writer best known as the author of "Scarlett," written as a sequel to "Gone with the Wind," 1934-2004)

POSSIBILITIES : So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.” (Norton Juster: U.S. academic, architect, and writer, 1929-2021)

POSSIBILITIES : Stars cannot shine without darkness. (Unknown Source: )

POSSIBILITIES : Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. (St. Francis of Assisi: Italian Catholic deacon, preacher, and as a saint is one of the most venerated religious figures in history, 1181-1226)

POSSIBILITIES : The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities. (Vic Braden: U.S. tennis player, instructor and television broadcaster for the sport, 1929-2014)

POSSIBILITIES : The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. (Arthur C. Clarke: U.S. science fiction writer and undersea explorer, 1917-2008)

POSSIBILITIES : The world's mine oyster / Which I with sword will open. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

POSSIBILITIES : There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt. (Audre Lorde: U.S. writer, feminist, librarian, and civil rights activist, 1934-1992)

POSSIBILITIES : To make no mistake is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. (Plutarch: Greek historian, biographer. moralist, and essayist, best known for his in-depth biographies of famous Romans and Greeks detailed in his writings of "Parallel Lives," c. 45—120 C.E.)

POSSIBILITIES : Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980)

POSSIBILITIES : When nothing is sure, everything is possible. (Margaret Drabble: English biographer, novelist, and short story writer, Born 1939)

POSSIBILITIES : Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? (Frank Scully: U.S. journalist, author, and humorist, 1892-1964)

POSSIBILITIES : Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. (Nido Qubein: U.S. Lebanese-Jordanian businessman, university president, and motivational speaker, Born 1948)

POSSIBILITY : Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. (T. S. Eliot: U.S.- born essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature who at age 39 became a British subject, subsequently renouncing his U.S. passport, 1888-1965)

POSTERITY : A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. (Unknown Source: )

POSTERITY : Are we being good ancestors? (Jonas Salk: U.S. This has happened before. The mail seems go be flaky. Please send me her address again and I’ll stop and replace the check. Sorry about that. Don On May 23, 2023, at 8:29 PM, Elaine Haglund <elaine.haglund@csulb.edu> wrote: Hi, Don, As it turns out, my friend, Dr. Pamela Roberts, has not yet received the check that you said was sent (per your message below). Do you think there was some problem with the address or whatever? Thanks for whatever you might suggest. U.S. virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines, 1914-1995)

POSTERITY : Life is about making an impact, not making an income. (Kevin Kruse: U.S. historian and professor at Princeton University, Born 1972)

POSTERITY : People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797)

POSTERITY : Write what should not be forgotten. (Isabel Allende: Chilean-American writer, Born 1942)

POSTPONEMENT : He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. (Horace: Roman lyric poet, 65 B.C.E.- 8 B.C.E)

POSTPONEMENT : Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision. (Harry A. Hopf: British practitioner and pioneer in Management, 1882-1949)

POTENTIAL : Potential has a shelf life. (Margaret Atwood: Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor, Born 1939)

POTENTIAL : Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. (Unknown Source: )

POTENTIAL : We know what we are, but know not what we may be. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

POVERTY : A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

POVERTY : A hungry man is not a free man. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)

POVERTY : Absolute poverty is the worst human rights problem in the world today. It is neither sexy nor legalistic. (Mary T. Robinson: Irish politician who served as the seventh president of Ireland and was the country's first female president, Born 1944)

POVERTY : America—the best poor man's country in the world. (William A. White: U.S.newspaper editor, politician, author, and leader of the Progressive Movement, 1868-1944)

POVERTY : As long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. (Robert F. Kennedy: U.S. Senator, Attorney General, and civil rights activist, 1925-1968)

POVERTY : Education is the vaccination for prevention of poverty. (Unknown Source: )

POVERTY : Find some way in your life to be in relationship with working class and poor people. (Deepak Bhargava: Indian-U.S. reform advocate and former director of the nonprofit Center for Community Change, Washington, D.C., Born 1968)

POVERTY : I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

POVERTY : If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. (Charles Darwin: English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882)

POVERTY : It is not the man who has little, but he who craves more, that is poor. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

POVERTY : Loneliness is the ultimate poverty. (Abigail Van Buren: U.S. advice columnist and radio show host who began the 'Dear Abby' column in 1956, which became the most widely syndicated newspaper column in the world, 1918-2013)

POVERTY : No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide. (Eric Sevareid: U.S. author and CBS news journalist, 1912-1992)

POVERTY : Poverty anywhere is a threat to prosperity everywhere. (Franklin D. Roosevelt: U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)

POVERTY : Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013)

POVERTY : Poverty is one thing money can't buy. (Lynwood L. Giacomini: U.S. publishing representative and a bibliophile, 1913-1991)

POVERTY : Poverty is the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases. (Eugene O'Neill: U.S. playwright and Nobel Laureate in Literature, 1888-1953)

POVERTY : Poverty isn't a line, it's a tight knot of material scarcity, chronic pain, incarceration, depression, addiction, and on and on. (Matthew Desmond: U.S. author, sociologist, and professor at Princeton University who has received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Born 1979/80)

POVERTY : Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up. (Unknown Source: )

POVERTY : Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul is impossible. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

POVERTY : Some people are so poor; all they have is money. (Patrick Meagher: Irish athlete who played in Gaelic games similar to soccer, 1890-1958))

POVERTY : The opposite of poverty is not wealth. . . . In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice. (Bryan Stevenson: U.S. lawyer, social justice activist, founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and a clinical professor at New York University School of Law, Born 1959)

POVERTY : The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

POVERTY : The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream. (Harry Kemp: U.S. poet and prose writer, 1883-1960)

POVERTY : The seeds of poverty are with institutions, not individuals. (Unknown Source: )

POVERTY : The test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

POVERTY : There are many lost 'Einsteins' who would have made enormous contributions had they been allowed to reach their full potential. (Unknown Source: )

POVERTY : War is the enemy of the poor. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

POVERTY : We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can (and do) read worthwhile books. (W.E.B. Du Bois: U.S. and Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, 1868-1963))

POVERTY : When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out the window. (Seventeenth Century Proverb: )

POVERTY : Work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

POWER : A bad leader seeks power, while a great leader empowers. (Steve Bayonne: U.S. marketing and investment professional)

POWER : A Liberal is a power worshipper without power. (George Orwell: English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic, known for his outspoken support of democratic socialism, 1903-1950)

POWER : Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

POWER : Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue. (Jean de la Fontaine: French fable writer and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century, 1621-1695)

POWER : As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

POWER : Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674)

POWER : Bullying is children experimenting with social power. (Unknown Source: )

POWER : Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

POWER : Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power. (John Steinbeck: U.S. author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1968)

POWER : He who fears something gives it power over him. (Moorish Proverb: )

POWER : He who has great power should use it lightly. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

POWER : He who saves his country does not violate the law. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

POWER : History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all the surveys. (John Dalberg-Acton: English Catholic historian, politician, and writer, 1834-1902)

POWER : I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

POWER : If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself; if you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself, or even less, in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519)

POWER : If you pluck a chicken one feather at a time people don't notice it. (Benito Mussolini: Italian politician and journalist who was the leader of the National Fascist Party, 1883-1945)

POWER : If you want to test a man’s character, give him power. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

POWER : Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

POWER : It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. (Robert A. Heinlein: U.S. science-Fiction writer, often called the 'dean of science-fiction writers,' 1907-1988)

POWER : It is said that "power corrupts", but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable. (David Brin: U.S. scientist and author of science fiction, Born 1950)

POWER : Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate. (Patricia H. Collins: U.S. academic specializing in race, class, and gender, Born 1948)

POWER : Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions. (Tacitus: Roman senator and historian, known for his penetrating insights into the psychology of power politics, 56—117 A.D.)

POWER : Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

POWER : No longer can inequality in economic resources balance equality in political resources. (Marshall Ganz: U.S. national social organizer, Born 1943)

POWER : No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear. (Unknown Source: )

POWER : Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. (Carl Sagan: U.S. astronomer and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences, 1934-1996)

POWER : Our greatest strength is the power of our example, not just the example of our power. (Joseph Biden: U.S. Democratic 47th president of the U.S., as well as U.S. vice-president and senator, Born 1942)

POWER : Patience and gentleness is power. (Leigh Hunt: English critic, essayist, and poet, 1784-1859)

POWER : Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. (Mao Zedong: Chinese communist revolutionary, political theorist, and founder of the People's Republic of China, 1893-1976)

POWER : Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. (Frederick Douglass: African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895)

POWER : Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

POWER : Power is the great aphrodisiac. (Henry Kissinger: politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, Born 1923)

POWER : Power tends to connect; absolute power connects absolutely. (John Dalberg-Acton: English Catholic historian, politician, and writer, 1834-1902)

POWER : Power without love cannot be just; similarly, love that doesn't take power seriously can never achieve justice. (Paul Tillich: German-American Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran Protestant theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century, 1886-1965)

POWER : Power without the people's confidence is nothing. (Catherine the Great: Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796, the country's longest-ruling female leader, under whose reign Russia became revitalized and recognized as one of the great powers of Europe, 1729-1796)

POWER : Quantity has a life all its own. (Joseph Stalin: Georgian revolutionary and political leader who governed the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death, 1878-1953)

POWER : Tenderness is more powerful than hardness; Water is more powerful than the rock; Love is more powerful than violence. (Herman Hesse: German-born poet, painter, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize In Literature, whose works include "Steppenwolf," and "Siddhartha," 1877-1962)

POWER : The big thieves hang the little ones. (Unknown Source: )

POWER : The government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences of citizens. (Lydia M. Child: U.S. abolitionist, activist for the rights of women and Native Americans, novelist, and journalist, 1802-1880)

POWER : The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. (William Hazlitt: English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)

POWER : The main task of a free society is to civilize the struggle for power. (R. H. S. Crossman: British Labor Party politician, 1907-1974)

POWER : The measure of power is not based on how many you beat down but how many you lift up. (Unknown Source: )

POWER : The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. (Alice M. Walker: U.S. author and awardee of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Born 1944)

POWER : The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power. (Wael Ghonim: Egyptian Internet activist and computer engineer with an interest in social entrepreneurship, Born 1980)

POWER : The power to define the situation is the ultimate power. (Jerry Rubin: U.S. activist and author, 1938-1994)

POWER : The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. (Georges Bidault: French politician, 1899-1983)

POWER : There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. (Booker T. Washington: U.S. educator, author, orator, advisor to presidents of the United States, and the dominant leader in the African-American community, 1856-1915)

POWER : They will conquer, but they will not convince. (Miguel de Unamuno: Spanish novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and rector of the University of Salamanca, 1864-1936)

POWER : This is what power really is: the privilege of ignoring anything you might find distasteful. (Oksana Zabuzhko: Ukrainian novelist, poet, and essayist, Born 1960)

POWER : This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past. (Agathon: Greek tragic poet, 448—400 B.C.E.)

POWER : Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it. (Anne O. McCormick: English-American journalist who worked as a foreign news correspondent and was the first woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize in a major journalism category, winning in 1937 for Correspondence, 1880-1954)

POWER : Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. (William Pitt Sr.: British statesman of the Whig group who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1708-1788)

POWER : Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful. (Paulo Freire: Brazilian educator and philosopher who authored "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," 1921-1997)

POWER : We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. (Stewart L. Udall: U.S. politician and later, a federal government official, 1920-2010)

POWER : What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? (Unknown Source: )

POWER : When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. (Jimi Hendrix: U.S. rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter, 1942-1970)

POWER : When two bull elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. (Kenyan proverb: )

POWER : Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

POWER : You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power -- he's free again. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Russian novelist, historian, short story writer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and who was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union, 1918-2008)

POWER (U.S.A.) : The separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of 1787 not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power. (Louis Brandeis: U.S. lawyer and associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, known as the 'People's Lawyer,' 1856-1941)

PRACTICALITY : Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. (Dale Carnegie: U.S. developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, public speaking, and interpersonal skills, 1888-1955)

PRACTICE : All things are difficult before they are easy. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

PRACTICE : Skill to do comes of doing. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

PRACTICE : The best practice is inspired by theory. The best theory is inspired by practice (Donald Knuth: U.S. computer scientist, mathematician, and professor, Born 1938)

PRAISE : As the Greek said, "Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise." (Wendell Phillips: U.S. attorney, abolitionist, and advocate for Native Americans, 1811-1884)

PRAISE : If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised." (E. M. Cloran: Romanian philosopher, aphorist, and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French, 1911-1995)

PRAISE : Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. (Christian Bovee: U.S. writer of aphorisms, 1820-1904)

PRAISE : Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others. (J. Pettit-Senn: Swiss poet, 1792-1870)

PRAISE : Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing. (Arnold H. Glasow: U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

PRAISE : Praise to the undeserving is severe satire. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

PRAISE : Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

PRAISE : The best way to get praise is to die. (Unknown Source: )

PRAISE : The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a 'but'. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)

PRAISE : The sweetest of all sounds is praise. (Xenophon: Greek philosopher, historian, soldier, mercenary, and student of Socrates, 430—354 B.C.E.)

PRAISE : The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. (Norman V. Peale: U.S. minister and author known for his work in popularizing the concept of positive thinking, 1898-1993)

PRAISE : When I did well, I heard it never; When I did ill, I heard it ever. (Unknown Source: )

PRAISE : Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise. (Pierre Beaumarchais: French diplomat and polymath, 1732-1799)

PRAISES : He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of man. (Honore de Balzac: French novelist and playwright, 1799-1850)

PRAYER : A prayer, in its simplest definition, is merely a wish turned heavenward. (Unknown Source: )

PRAYER : All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week. (Duffy Daugherty: U.S. football player and coach who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach, 1915-1987)

PRAYER : Call on God, but row away from the rocks. (Unknown Source: )

PRAYER : Do not pray by heart, but with the heart. (Unknown Source: )

PRAYER : Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it. (Francois de Fenelon: French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet, and writer, 1651-1715)

PRAYER : If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers. (Steve Allen: U.S. television host, musician, actor, comedian, and writer, 1921-2000)

PRAYER : In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

PRAYER : It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there. (C. S. Lewis: British novelist, lay theologian, broadcaster, 1898-1963)

PRAYER : Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. (Ruth Graham: U.S. Christian author, most well known as the wife of evangelist Billy Graham, 1943-2007)

PRAYER : Most people do not pray; they only beg. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

PRAYER : Not thinking critically, I assumed that the 'successful' prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me. (Dan Barker: U.S. atheist but former preacher, musician, Born 1949)

PRAYER : Nothing is discussed more and practiced less than prayer. (Unknown Source: )

PRAYER : Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape. (Austin O'Malley: U.S. ophthalmologist, professor of English literature, and author of aphorisms, 1858-1932)

PRAYER : Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore. (Unknown Source: )

PRAYER : Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. (Soren, Kierkegaard: Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher, 1813-1855)

PRAYER : Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods, a man should himself lend a hand. (Hippocrates: Greek physician who is often referred to as the 'Father of Medicine,' c. 460 B.C.E.—c. 370 B.C.E.)

PRAYER : Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone . . . who alone can deliver us from solitude. (Unknown Source: )

PRAYER : Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

PRAYER : Prayer is the key, but faith unlocks the door. (Unknown Source: )

PRAYER : Prayer is the world's greatest wireless connection. (Unknown Source: )

PRAYER : Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. (Adam Clarke: British Methodist theologian and biblical scholar, 1762-1832)

PRAYER : The doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind. (Herbert Muller: U.S., educator, historian, and author, 1905-1980)

PRAYER : The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. (Robert Ingersoll: U.S. attorney, writer and orator who campaigned in defense of agnosticism and who was nicknamed 'The Great Agnostic,' 1833-1899)

PRAYER : There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes. (Erica Jong: U.S. novelist, satirist, and poet, known for her novel, "Fear of Flying," that played a prominent role in the development of second-wave feminism, Born 1942)

PRAYER : Trust in Allah, but tie your camel first. (Unknown Source: )

PRAYER : Visualize, "prayerize," "actionize," and your wishes will come true. (Charles L. Allen: U.S. ordained United Methodist minister whose First United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas became the largest Methodist congregation in the world at 12,000 members. 1913-2005)

PRAYER : What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four. (Unknown Source: )

PRAYER : When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep. (Unknown Source: )

PREDICTABILITY : If life were predictable, it would cease to be life — and without flavour. (Eleanor Roosevelt: U.S. political figure, diplomat, and activist who served as the First Lady of the U.S. during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest serving U.S. First Lady, 1884-1962)

PREDICTABILITY : One thing a person cannot do, no matter how rigorous his analysis or heroic his imagination, is to draw up a list of things that would never occur to him. (Thomas Schelling: U.S. economist and professor of foreign policy, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control, 1921-2016)

PREDICTABILITY : The best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry. (Robert Burns: Scottish poet and lyricist who is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide, 1759-1796)

PREDICTIONS : Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980)

PREDICTIONS : One swallow alone does not make the summer. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616)

PREDICTIONS : The best way to predict the future is to invent it. (Alan Kay: U.S. computer scientist and an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Born 1940)

preferences : All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening (Alexander Woollcott: U.S. drama critic and commentator, and a prominent radio personality, 1887-1943)

preferences : One man's meat is another's poison. (Unknown Source: )

preferences : There is no accounting for taste. (Unknown Source: )

preferences : What is food to one is to others bitter poison. (Lucretius: Roman poet and philosopher, 99-55 B.C.E.)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred; he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels (Ann Richards: U.S. politician and governor of the state of Texas, 1933-2006)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks. (Sarah M. Grimke: U.S. Quaker abolitionist who was born and reared in South Carolina and widely regarded as the 'Mother of the women's suffrage movement,' (1792-1873))

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome. (Kate Sheppard: Prominent member of the women's suffrage movement in New Zealand, 1847-1934)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : Bigotry is not the result of ignorance; bigotry is the result of fear. And fear is impervious to data. (Reza Aslan: )

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : Bigotry is the harvest of the persistent seeds of intolerance that is planted in ground—ground that has been plowed by fear and watered by greed. (Dan Morrow: U.S. author and professor of educational psychology)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. (Rabindranath Tagore: a learned Bengali who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art, 1861-1941)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness. (Alejandro Jodorowsky: Chilean-French film and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright, actor, author, poet, and producer, Born 1929)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : Birds of a feather flock together. (English proverb: )

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : Black women have been doubly victimized by the immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. (Pauli Murray: U.S. civil rights activist, lawyer, women's rights activist, and Episcopal priest, 1910-1985)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : By understanding our perception gaps, working to overcome our mistrust of the other side, and resisting the forces that seek to divide us, we can advance towards a future that we all want. (The Hidden Tribes (non-profit group): )

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance. (Verna Myers: U.S. diversity consultant, author, speaker, lawyer, and corporate executive)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices—just recognize them. (Edward R. Murrow: U.S. war correspondent during World War II and broadcast journalist, 1908-1965)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized. (Eustace Haydon: Canadian Baptist minister, historian of religion, and recipient of the 'Humanist of the Year' award by the American Humanist Association, 1880-1975)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : He had but one eye, and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of. two. (Charles Dickens: English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : He hears but half who hears one party only. (Aeschylus: Ancient Greek tragedian who is often described as the ‘Father of Tragedy,' 525—456 B.C.E.)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices. (Carlo Goldoni: Italian playwright and librettist whose works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays, 1707-1793)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : How a minority / Reaching majority / Seizing authority / Hates a minority! (Leonard H. Robbins: U.S. writer, 1877-1947)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : I pity those who . . . despise others because they’re not the same as themselves. (Mark Van Doren: U.S. poet, writer, critic, scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, 1894-1972)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed, and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. (George D. Aiken: U.S. senator, 1892-1984)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : Ignorance comes in all colors; not all blacks are criminals; not all whites are racists. (Unknown Source: )

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : In this country, American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. (Toni Morrison: U.S. African-American novelist, editor, professor, social reformer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1931-2019)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : It is never too late to give up our prejudices. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : It’s madness to hate all roses because you got scratched with one thorn. (Antoine de Saint-Expery: French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator, 1900-1944)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : Nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. (Herman Melville: U.S. novelist, short-story writer, 1819-1891)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : Of all the injuries inflicted by racism on people of color, the most corrosive is the wound within, the internalized racism that leads some victims . . . to embrace the values of their oppressors. (H. J. Geiger: U.S. medical doctor, and founding member and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Born 1926)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. (Herman Melville: U.S. novelist, short-story writer, 1819-1891)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : One can be ignorant without being bigoted, but one can't be bigoted without being ignorant. (Robert Greenley: U.S. microbiologist, Born 1946))

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : People who don’t believe in inter-racial marriage should all get an ancestry DNA kit. (Unknown Source: )

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : Prejudice is an emotional commitment to ignorance (Nathan Rutstein: U.S. author, lecturer, college educator, and former network journalist, known for his promotion of the oneness of humanity, 1930-2006)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : Prejudice is most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks. (Charlotte Bronte: English novelist and poet, 1816-1855)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : Prejudice is the child of ignorance. (William Hazlitt: English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : Some folks think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices. (Unknown Source: )

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : The crow, when travelling abroad, came back just as black. (Unknown Source: )

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. (Ogden Nash: U.S. poet well known for his light and humorous verse,1902-1971)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world. (: )

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract. (Oliver W. Holmes Sr.: U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, polymath, and physician, 1809-1894)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on. (Unknown Source: )

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in. (Bill Copeland: U.S. poet, writer, and historian, 1946-2010)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : The stories we tell reveal who we are and who we can be. (Robbie Mendez: U.S. son of Sylvia Mendez who in 1947 led a court case leading to the Brown vs. Board of Education case that desegregated public schools nationwide.)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you (the privileged) has brought stripes and death to me . . . and the mournful wail of millions. You may rejoice; I must mourn. The conscience of the nation must be roused and quickened. (Frederick Douglass: African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : The tools of conquest do not necessarily come from bombs . . . . There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found in the minds of men. (Rod Serling: U.S. screenwriter and television producer who helped form television industry standards, 1924-1975)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian, and Caribbean history of the United States. (Carlos Fuentes: Mexican novelist, essayist, and diplomat, 1928-2012)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : The ‘American Dream’ comes at the expense of the American Negro. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. (Charles Curtis: U.S. attorney and politician who served as the 31st U.S. vice-president, 1860-1936)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : There is a myth, a pervasive myth, to the effect that if we . . . only learn to speak English well-and particularly without an accent, we would be welcomed into the U.S. American fellowship. However, the true test is not our speech. That accent is heard in our pigmentation, our physiognomy, our names. (Unknown Source: )

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : To smash something is the ghetto’s chronic need. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them. (Charles C. Colton: English cleric, writer, and collector, well known for his eccentricities, 1780-1832)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : What one Christian does is his own responsibility; what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews. (Anne Frank: German-born diarist and Jewish victim of the Holocaust, 1929-1945)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : You've got to be carefully taught to hate and fear. (Oscar Hammerstein II: U.S. lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and director in the musical theater, 1895-1960)

PREOCCUPATION : If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. (Thomas Mann: German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1875-1955)

PREOCCUPATION : Too often when conscience tries to speak, the line seems to be busy (Unknown Source: )

PREPARATION : A man cannot dress, without his ideas getting clothed at the same time. (Laurence Sterne: Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman, 1713-1768)

PREPARATION : Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it. (Michael Friedman: U.S. composer and lyricist, l975-2017)

PREPARATION : Dig the well before you are thirsty. (Chinese Proverb: )

PREPARATION : Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the axe. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

PREPARATION : I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016)

PREPARATION : In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind. (Louis Pasteur: French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, 1822-1895)

PREPARATION : It is how you set the sails that determines your direction in life, not just the winds' forces. (Jim Rohn: U.S. entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker, 1930-2009)

PREPARATION : It’s not enough to know how to ride—you must learn how to fall. (Mexican Proverb: )

PREPARATION : Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go. (Thomas Tusser: English poet and farmer, 1524-1580)

PREPARATION : Luck is what happens when it meets preparation. (Unknown Source: )

PREPARATION : Study without action is futile; action without study is fatal. (Mary R. Beard: U.S. historian, author, and leader in both the labor and women's rights movements, 1876-1958)

PREPARATION : The beginning is half of every action. (Greek Proverb: )

PREPARATION : We must gird up our loins . . . (Matthew Henry: British Nonconformist minister and author, best known for the six-volume biblical commentary Exposition of the Old and New Testaments, 1662-1714)

PREPARATION : You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs. (Francois de Charette: French Royalist soldier and politician, 1763-1796)

PREPAREDNESS : He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round. (Walter Scott: Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian, 1771-1832)

PREPAREDNESS : In fair weather prepare for foul. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

PREPAREDNESS : Luck is the residue of design. (Branch Rickey: U.S. baseball player and sports executive, 1881-1965)

PRESENCE : Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924)

PRESENCE : If you're looking too far down the road, you're not seeing what's right in front of you. (Preet Bharara: Indian-American attorney, Born 1968)

PRESENT : Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery and . . . Today is a gift: that's why we call it The Present. (Brian Dyson: U.S. businessman and CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises, Born 1935)

PRESENTATION : Style is the dress of thoughts. (Lord Stanhope: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773)

PRESIDENCY (U.S.A.) : An eminent U.S. American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate.' (James Bryce: British politician, diplomat, and historian best known for his highly successful ambassadorship to the United States and for his study of U.S. politics, 1838-1922)

PRESIDENCY (U.S.A.) : Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the presidency. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

PRESIDENCY (U.S.A.) : The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people. (Herbert Hoover: U.S. engineer, businessman, and politician who served as the 31st president of the United States, 1874-1964)

PRESIDENCY (U.S.A.) : When the president does it, that means it is not illegal. (Richard Nixon: U.S. politician who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 until his resignation in 1974, the only U.S. president to resign from the office, 1913-1994)

PRESIDENCY (U.S.A.) : Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed. (Harry S. Truman: U.S. politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States, 1884-1972)

PRESSURE : If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. (Harry S. Truman: U.S. politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States, 1884-1972)

PRESSURE : The finest diamonds occur under the hottest heat. (Unknown Source: )

PREVENTION : An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

PREVENTION : Prevention is better than cure. (Unknown Source: )

PRICE : The price spoils the pleasure. (French Proverb: )

PRIDE : I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

PRIDE : If a cock ruffles his feathers, he is easy to pluck. (Burmese Proverb: )

PRIDE : It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld: French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)

PRIDE : Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

PRIDE : Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself. (Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher whose views countered the philosophies of German post-Kantian idealism, and whose work was among the first in Western philosophy to share significant tenets of Eastern thought, 1788-1860)

PRIDE : Pride is the mask of one's own faults. (Jewish proverb: )

PRIDE : When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured. (English proverb: )

PRIDE : When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves with the credit of having left them. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld: French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)

PRINCIIPLES : A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. (Dwight D. Eisenhower: U.S. politician and five-star Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969)

PRINCIPLES : Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. (Immanuel Kant: German philosopher whose views continue to have a major influence on contemporary philosophy, 1724-1804)

PRINCIPLES : Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you. (Margaret Thatcher: British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office - nicknamed the 'Iron Lady,' 1925-2013)

PRINCIPLES : Education and information without the guiding principles of love and justice lead to the development of guided missiles and misguided men and women. (Unknown Source: )

PRINCIPLES : Honor grows from qualms. (John Leonard: U.S. literary, television, film, and cultural critic, 1939-2008)

PRINCIPLES : Important principles may and must be flexible. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

PRINCIPLES : It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

PRINCIPLES : It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it. (George C. Lichtenberg: German experimental physicist, satirist, and Anglophile, 1742-1799,)

PRINCIPLES : My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.' (Tupac Shakur: U.S. musical artist who is widely considered one of the most influential and successful rappers of all time, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide, 1971-1996)

PRINCIPLES : No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

PRINCIPLES : Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. (George J. Nathan: U.S. drama critic, author, and editor of literary magazines, 1882-1958)

PRINCIPLES : Principles become modified in practice by facts. (James F. Cooper: U.S. writer whose books focused on the history of the U.S. frontier and native-American life, 1789-1851)

PRINCIPLES : Principles should be guideposts, not roadblocks. (Amy Gutmann: U.S. professor of Political Science and President of the University of Pennsylvania, Born 1949)

PRINCIPLES : Stand up for what you believe in, even if you're standing alone. (Sophia Scholl: German student and anti-Nazi political activist who was convicted of high treason, 1921-1943))

PRINCIPLES : The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. (Henrik Ibsen: Norwegian playwright and theatre director, 1828-1906)

PRINCIPLES : There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for. (Unknown Source: )

PRINCIPLES : To move freely you must be deeply rooted. (Bella Lewitzky: U.S. dancer, choreographer, 1916-2004)

PRINCIPLES : We talk on principle, but we act on interest. (Walter S. Landor: English writer, poet, and activist, 1775-1864)

PRINCIPLES : When one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. (Rosa Parks: U.S. activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott, 1913-2005)

PRIORITIES : Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

PRIORITIES : There is nothing . . . to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

PRISONS : Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. (John Ruskin: English art critic, as well as art patron, prominent social thinker, and philanthropist. 1819-1900)

PRISONS : The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. (Fyodor Dostoevsky: Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and philosopher, 1821-1881)

PRISONS : The privatization of the prisons is not private, not free, and hardly enterprise. It is the further subsidization of corporations at the expense of taxpayers. (William DuBay: U.S. Catholic priest and social activist, Born 1934)

PRISONS : When you open a school, you close a jail. (Victor Hugo: French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)

PRIVACY : A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

PRIVACY : A still tongue makes a wise head. (Barbara A. Kipler: U.S. lexicographer, linguist, ontologist, and part-time archaeologist, Born 1954)

PRIVACY : Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge. (George Herbert: English aristocrat and financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Egyptian tombs, 1866-1923)

PRIVACY : Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home. (Germaine Greer: Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century, Born 1939)

PRIVACY : The corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy. (John P. Barlow: U.S. poet, cattle rancher, and political activist, Born 1947)

PRIVACY : The right of privacy . . . is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. (Harry Blackmun: U.S. lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1908-1999)

PRIVILEGE : Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege even better. (Anna Chennault: Chinese-born U.S. war correspondent, 1925-2018)

PRIVILEGE : Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege. (William Beveridge: British economist and social reformer, 1879-1963)

PRIVILEGE : The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you (the privileged) has brought stripes and death to me . . . and the mournful wail of millions. You may rejoice; I must mourn. The conscience of the nation must be roused and quickened. (Frederick Douglass: African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895)

PRIVILEGES : A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. (Dwight D. Eisenhower: U.S. politician and five-star Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969)

PROBLEM-SOLVING : A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied. (Henri F. Amiel: Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic, 1821-1881)

PROBLEM-SOLVING : A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved. (Dorothea Brande: U.S. writer and editor, 1893-1948)

PROBLEM-SOLVING : All fish are not caught with flies. (John Lyly: English playwright, poet, dramatist, and courtier, 1554-1606)

PROBLEM-SOLVING : Don't curse the darkness - light a candle. (Chinese Proverb: )

PROBLEM-SOLVING : If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate (unforeseen consequence). (Unknown Source: )

PROBLEM-SOLVING : In the final analysis, we do not solve our problems, for life is not a problem be solved but an experiment to be lived. (Unknown Source: )

PROBLEM-SOLVING : It is better to find the way out than to stand and scream at the forest. (Senegalese Proverb: )

PROBLEM-SOLVING : Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

PROBLEM-SOLVING : Picture yourself placing your problem inside a pale, yellow balloon, letting it go, watching it drift until it is a tiny pastel dot in the sky. (Barbara Markoff: U.S. art consultant, 1931-2019)

PROBLEM-SOLVING : The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. (John Galsworthy: English novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1867-1933)

PROBLEM-SOLVING : The best way out is always through. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)

PROBLEM-SOLVING : Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. (Roger Lewin: British prize-winning science writer and author of 20 books, Born 1944)

PROBLEM-SOLVING : We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

PROBLEMS : A problem well stated is a problem half solved. (Charles F. Kettering: U.S. inventor, engineer, businessman, the holder of 186 patents, and founder of the Kettering Foundation for research, 1876-1958)

PROBLEMS : Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution. (Stanley Arnold: U.S. business leader and consultant)

PROBLEMS : Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. (Richard Bach: U.S. author who has written numerous works of fiction and also non-fiction flight-related titles, Born 1936)

PROBLEMS : Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary. (Henry W. Longfellow: U.S. poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline," 1807-1882)

PROBLEMS : It isn't that they can't see the solution, it's that they can't see the problem. (G. K. Chesterton: English writer, philosopher, literary and art critic, known as the 'Prince of Paradox,' 1874-1936)

PROBLEMS : It takes an intellectual to solve a problem but a genius to prevent one. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

PROBLEMS : Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced (Soren Kierkegaard: Danish existentialist philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author, 1813-1855)

PROBLEMS : Most problems are really the absence of ideas. (Unknown Source: )

PROBLEMS : No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

PROBLEMS : Picture yourself placing your problem inside a pale, yellow balloon, letting it go, watching it drift until it is a tiny pastel dot in the sky. (Barbara Markoff: U.S. art consultant, 1931-2019)

PROBLEMS : Problems are not stop signs; they are guidelines. (Robert H. Schuller: Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and author, principally known for his weekly ‘Hour of Power’ television program, 1926-2015)

PROBLEMS : Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. (Henry J. Kaiser: U.S. industrialist who established the Kaiser Shipyards after which he formed Kaiser Aluminum, Kaiser Steel, and Kaiser Permanente health care, 1882-1967)

PROBLEMS : Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. (Charles F. Kettering: U.S. inventor, engineer, businessman, the holder of 186 patents, and founder of the Kettering Foundation for research, 1876-1958)

PROBLEMS : Some days you tame the tiger. And some days the tiger has you for lunch. (Unknown Source: )

PROBLEMS : Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. (Laurence J. Peter: Canadian educator best known for the formulation of the 'Peter Principle- managers rise to the level of their incompetence,' 1919-1990)

PROBLEMS : The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. (Bernard Baruch: U.S. financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant, 1870-1965)

PROBLEMS : The best way out of a problem is through it. (Unknown Source: )

PROBLEMS : The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

PROBLEMS : The significant problems of our time cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

PROBLEMS : We need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in. (Desmond Tutu: South African Anglican Archbishop known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist and the first black African to hold the position, Born 1931)

PROBLEMS : You’re either part of the solution or part of the problem. (Eldredge Cleaver: U.S. writer, and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party, 1935-1998)

PROCRASTINATION : Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. (Lin Yutang: Chinese writer, translator, linguist, philosopher, and inventor, 1895-1976)

PROCRASTINATION : Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. (Italian Proverb: )

PROCRASTINATION : I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do the day after. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

PROCRASTINATION : If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done. (Unknown Source: )

PROCRASTINATION : If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. (Olin Miller: U.S. renowned author who is considered as one of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century, Born 1950)

PROCRASTINATION : Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability. (Flower A. Newhouse: U.S. Christian mystic and spiritual teacher, 1909-1994)

PROCRASTINATION : My mother said, "You won't amount to anything because you procrastinate." I said, "Just wait." (Judy Tenuta: U.S. comedian noted for her brash onstage persona, Born 1956)

PROCRASTINATION : Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

PROCRASTINATION : Procrastination is opportunity's assassin. (Victor Klam: U.S. entrepreneur and TV spokesperson, 1926-2001)

PROCRASTINATION : Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. (Don Marquis: U.S. humorist, journalist, and playwright, 1878-1937)

PROCRASTINATION : Procrastination is the hardening of the ‘oughteries’ (Unknown Source: )

PROCRASTINATION : Procrastination is the thief of time. (Edward Young: English poet, critic, and theologian, 1683-1765)

PROCRASTINATION : Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year. (Spanish Proverb: )

PROCRASTINATION : Why always, not yet? Do flowers in spring say, not yet? (Norman Douglas: British writer, 1868-1952)

PRODUCTIVITY : Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work. (Gustave Flaubert: French novelist and author of "Madame Bovary," 1821-1880)

PRODUCTIVITY : If you do a job too well, you'll get stuck with it. (Unknown Source: )

PROFANITY : In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

PROFESSIONAL CALLING : There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive. (Oprah Winfrey: U.S. talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist, born 1954.)

PROFESSIONS : 'Vice-President' is the title given to a corporate manager instead of a raise. (James Humes: U.S. author and former presidential speechwriter, known for his extensive knowledge of the political landscape, Born 1934)

PROFESSIONS : A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. (Carrie Snow: U.S. stand-up comedian and television comic writer)

PROFESSIONS : It's amazing how important your job is when you want the day off—and how unimportant it is when you want a raise. (Robert Orben: U.S. professional comedy writer, magician, and presidential speech writer, Born 1927)

PROFESSIONS : People who work sitting down generally get paid more than people who work standing up. (Ogden Nash: U.S. poet well known for his light and humorous verse,1902-1971)

PROFESSORS : Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. (Unknown Source: )

PROFICIENCY : No job is beneath you. You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom, and when you get there, be really great at sorting mail. (Randy Pausch: U.S. professor of computer science and design, 1960-2008)

PROFILING : When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. (Jiddu Krishnamurti: Indian spiritual writer and speaker, 1895-1986)

PROFIT : Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. (Arthur Miller: U.S. playwright and essayist, 1915-2005)

PROFIT : For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (Unknown Source: )

PROFITABILITY : Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise. (Peter Drucker: Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, 1909-2005)

PROGRESS : All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902)

PROGRESS : And from the discontent of man the world's best progress springs. (Ella W. Wilcox: U.S. author and poet, 1850-1919)

PROGRESS : Cataclysm is always followed by emergence. This is a universal evolutionary pattern. (Unknown Source: )

PROGRESS : Change itself is the very basis of our continuity as persons. Only that which can change can continue. (Unknown Source: )

PROGRESS : Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below. (Noam Chomsky: U.S. linguist, cognitive scientist, social critic, and political activist. Born 1928)

PROGRESS : Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural—while it was recent. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

PROGRESS : Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. (Thomas H. Huxley: English biologist and anthropologist specializing in comparative anatomy and was an advocate of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, 1825-1895)

PROGRESS : Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. (John Dewey: U.S. philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, 1859-1952)

PROGRESS : Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. (Wendell Phillips: U.S. attorney, abolitionist, and advocate for Native Americans, 1811-1884)

PROGRESS : Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic, and more time to drive to the office. (Unknown Source: )

PROGRESS : Great progress flows from once laughable ideas—such as moon colonization. (Newt Gingrich: U.S. politician, Born 1943)

PROGRESS : He who rejects change is the architect of decay. (Harold Wilson: British statesman and politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, 1916-1995)

PROGRESS : Horsepower was a wonderful thing when only horses had it. (Unknown Source: )

PROGRESS : I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.: U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)

PROGRESS : If the camel once gets his nose in a tent, his body will soon follow. (Unknown Source: )

PROGRESS : If there's no struggle, there's no progress. (Frederick Douglass: African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895)

PROGRESS : If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

PROGRESS : Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork? (Stanislaw Lee: Polish poet and aphorist, 1909-1966)

PROGRESS : Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance. (William E. Channing: U.S. Unitarian preacher and one of Unitarian's foremost theologians, 1780-1842)

PROGRESS : Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. (Margaret Mead: U.S. cultural anthropologist, author, and speaker on the mass media, 1901-1978)

PROGRESS : Not to go back is somewhat to advance. (Alexander Pope: English poet who is considered the second most quoted writer in the English language after Shakespeare, 1688-1744)

PROGRESS : Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. (Charles F. Kettering: U.S. inventor, engineer, businessman, the holder of 186 patents, and founder of the Kettering Foundation for research, 1876-1958)

PROGRESS : Progress is bumpy. It always has been. (Barack Obama: U.S. politician who served as the 44th President of the United States, the first African American to assume the presidency, Born 1961)

PROGRESS : Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

PROGRESS : Progress lies not in what is enhancing, but in advancing of what will be. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

PROGRESS : Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes. (Henry George: U.S. economist, journalist, and philosopher, 1839-1897)

PROGRESS : Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

PROGRESS : So much in the world has been destroyed that I have cast my lot with those who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world. (Adrienne Rich: U.S. poet and essayist, know for bringing the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse, 1929-2012)

PROGRESS : The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. (Alfred N. Whitehead: English mathematician and philosopher whose studies have found application to a wide variety of disciplines, 1861-1947)

PROGRESS : The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies. (Ayn Rand: Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter, 1905-1982)

PROGRESS : The past is for inspiration, not imitation; for continuation, not repetition. (Israel Zangwill: British author at the forefront of cultural Zionism during the 19th century, 1864-1926)

PROGRESS : The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. (Ernest Renan: French expert of Semitic languages and civilizations, philosopher, critic, and historian of religion. 1823-1892)

PROGRESS : The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. (Franklin D. Roosevelt: U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)

PROGRESS : The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape. (Edward de Bono: Maltese physician, psychologist, author, and inventor, Born 1933)

PROGRESS : There is more to life than increasing its speed. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

PROGRESS : Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown. (Thomas A. Woodlock: U.S. editor of the 'Wall Street Journal' and a member of the United States Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), 1866-1945)

PROGRESS : Trouble, like the hill ahead, straightens out when you advance upon it. (Marcelene Cox: U.S. writer, 1899-1998)

PROGRESS : Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. (Florence Nightingale: English social reformer, statistician, and the founder of modern nursing, 1820-1910)

PROGRESS : What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. (Havelock Ellis: English physician, writer, and progressivesocial reformer who studied human sexuality, 1859-1939)

PROGRESS : Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. (Indira Gandhi: Indian politician who was the first and, to date, the only female Prime Minister of India and was named by 'Time' magazine among the world's 100 powerful women who defined the last century, 1917-1984))

PROGRESS : You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. (Frederick B. Wilcox: U.S. businessman and author, 1882-1959)

PROGRESSION : One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures. (Josiah G. Holland: U.S. novelist, poet, and co-founder/editor of 'Scribner's Monthly,' 1819-1881)

PROGRESSIVISM : Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving. (Elizabeth C. Stanton: U.S. suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement, 1815-1902)

PROJECTS : Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. (Christina Rossetti: English children's poet, 1830-1894)

PROMINENCE : Eminent posts make great men greater, and little men less. (Jean d. Bruyere: French philosopher and moralist, 1645-1696)

PROMISE : A promise made is a debt unpaid. (Robert W. Service: British-Canadian poet and writer, often called 'the Bard of the Yukon,' 1874-1958)

PROMISE : Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. (Bernard Baruch: U.S. financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant, 1870-1965)

PROMISES : Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ. (Moliere: French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature and whose plays have been translated into every major living language, 1622-1673)

PROMISES : One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

PROMPTNESS : If you can’t be early, be on time. (Grant A. Abrahamson: U.S. public service administrator, 1929-2013)

PROOBABILITIES : The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities. (Vic Braden: U.S. tennis player, instructor and television broadcaster for the sport, 1929-2014)

PROOF : The burden of proof lies on the plaintiff. (Unknown Source: )

PROOF : What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. (Christopher Hitchens: Anglo-American columnist, social critic, and journalist, 1949-2011)

PROPAGANDA : Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. (Unknown Source: )

PROPAGANDA : The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. (Hermann Goring: German political and military leader as well as one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, 1893-1946)

PROPAGANDA : The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. (Unknown Source: )

PROPAGANDA : Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

PROPAGANDA : Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)

PROPHECY : Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

PROPHETS : Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for . . . they make many others die with them, often before them, and, at times instead of them. (Umberto Eco: Italian novelist, literary critic, and semiotician, 1932-2016)

PROPHETS : I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet. (Unknown Source: )

PROSE : Eloquence is the poetry of prose. (William C. Bryant: U.S. romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post, 1794-1878)

PROSPERITY : In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. (John C. Collins: British literary critic, 1848-1908)

PROSPERITY : Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is greater. (William Hazlitt: English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)

PROSPERITY : Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

PROSPERITY : Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies. (Luc de Clapiers: French writer and moralist, 1715-1747)

PROSPERITY : We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can (and do) read worthwhile books. (W.E.B. Du Bois: U.S. and Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, 1868-1963))

PROSTITUTION : The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture. (Camille Paglia: U.S. academic and social critic, Born 1947)

PROTECTION : Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519)

PROTECTOR : He who has daughters is always a shepherd. (Unknown Source: )

PROTEST : A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. (G. K. Chesterton: English writer, philosopher, literary and art critic, known as the 'Prince of Paradox,' 1874-1936)

PROTEST : Another world is not only possible, she is on her way; on a quiet day I can hear her breathing. (Arundhati Roy: Indian author and political activist in human rights and environmental causes, Born 1961)

PROTEST : Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. (Barbara Ehrenreich: U.S. journalist, activist, and author, Born 1941)

PROTEST : First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you . . . and you win. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

PROTEST : Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

PROTEST : I decided it is better to scream . . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity. (Nadezhda Mandelstam: Russian Jewish writer and educator, 1899-1980)

PROTEST : I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so. (Rosa Parks: U.S. activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott, 1913-2005)

PROTEST : I would rather die standing in resistance than begging on my knees! (Emiliano S. Zapata: Mexican iconic figure who was a foremost leader in the Mexican Revolution, 1879-1919)

PROTEST : If you think you’re too little to make a difference, then you’ve never been in bed with a mosquito. (Unknown Source: )

PROTEST : Make your voice heard for those who have no voice. (Unknown Source: )

PROTEST : Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt. (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

PROTEST : Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. (Frederick Douglass: African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895)

PROTEST : The proverb warns that 'You should not bite that hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. (Thomas Szasz: Hungarian-American academic, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, 1920-2012)

PROTEST : The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived. (Ann Patchett: U.S. Prize-winning author, Born, 1963)

PROTEST : The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them. (Chinua Achebe: Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic, 1930-2013)

PROTEST : There is no movement without our own resistance. (Laura Schlessinger: U.S. talk radio host, author, and an inductee to the National Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago, Born 1947)

PROTEST : There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. (Elie Wiesel: Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor, 1928-2016)

PROTEST : There’s a place for riots; if you don’t have extremes, you don’t get any moderation. (Unknown Source: )

PROTEST : Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must . . . undergo the fatigue of supporting it. (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)

PROTEST : What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but who is 'sitting in'—and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change. (Howard Zinn: U.S. political science professor, author, and social activist, 1922-2010)

PROTESTING : They tell you you're too loud, that you need to wait your turn and ask the right people for permission. Do it anyway. (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: U.S. politician and activist serving since 2019 as the U.S. representative for New York, Born 19989)

PROTESTS : When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. (Bayard Rustin: African American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights, 1912-1987)

PROVERBS : Proverbs are all very fine when there’s nothing to worry you, but when you’re in real trouble, they’re not a bit of help. (Lucy M. Montgomery: Canadian author best known for a series of novels, "Anne of Green Gables," 1874-1942)

PROVERBS : Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. (Aldous Huxley: English writer and philosopher who wrote nearly fifty books—both novels and non-fiction works—and was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time, 1894-1963)

PROVERBS : Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation. (Stanislaw Lee: Polish poet and aphorist, 1909-1966)

PROVERBS : The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. (William Penn: U.S. writer, Quaker, and founder of the English North American colony the Province of Pennsylvania, known for his advocacy of democracy and religious freedom, and notable for his good relations with the Lenape Native Americans, 1644-1718)

PROVISIONS : An army marches on its stomach. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

PRUDENCE : A closed mouth catches no flies. (Italian Proverb: )

PRUDENCE : A quiet fool is half a sage. (Yiddish Proverb: )

PRUDENCE : A still tongue makes a wise head. (Barbara A. Kipler: U.S. lexicographer, linguist, ontologist, and part-time archaeologist, Born 1954)

PRUDENCE : Dine on little, and sup on less. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616)

PRUDENCE : Discretion is the better part of valor. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

PRUDENCE : Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet. (Chinese Proverb: )

PRUDENCE : Hasten slowly. (Augustus Caesar: Founder of the Roman Principate and considered the first Roman Emperor, controlling the Roman Empire from 27 B.C.E. until his death, 63 B.C.E.—14 C.E.)

PRUDENCE : People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. (Unknown Source: )

PRUDENCE : Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

PRUDENCE : The strongest person in any room is the one who speaks the least. (Unknown Source: )

PRUDENCE : Wisdom is having a lot to say and not always saying it. (Unknown Source: )

PSYCHIATRY : Anyone who goes to see a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. (Samuel Goldwyn: Polish-American film producer who is best known for being the founding contributor and executive of several motion picture studios in Hollywood, 1882-1974)

PSYCHIATRY : Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married—the other half because they're not. (Arnold H. Glasow: U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

PUBLIC ARTWORK : Architecture is inhabited sculpture. (Constantin Brancusi: Romanian sculptor, 1876-1957)

PUBLIC SPEAKING : The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. (George Jessel: U.S. actor, singer, songwriter, and film producer, 1898-1981)

PUBLISHING : The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. (John Steinbeck: U.S. author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1968)

PUNCTUALITY : He that comes first to the hill / May sit where he will. (Scottish Proverb: )

PUNCTUALITY : The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it. (Franklin P. Jones: U.S. columnist, 1908-1980)

PUNCTUALITY : Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. (Horace Mann: U.S. politician and educational reformer, 1796-1859)

PUNISHMENT : Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

PUNISHMENT : Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

PUNISHMENT : It is better to prevent crimes than it is to punish them. (Cesare Beccaria: Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, economist and politician, who is widely considered one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment, 1738-1794)

PUNISHMENT : My object is . . . To let the punishment fit the crime. (W. S. Gilbert: English dramatist, librettist, poet, and illustrator, 1836-1911)

PUNISHMENT : Punishment hardens and numbs . . . . It sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

PUNISHMENT : There's nothing gained by the second kick of a mule. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

PUNISHMENT : War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

PURITY : Purity is obscurity. (Ogden Nash: U.S. poet well known for his light and humorous verse,1902-1971)

PURPOSE : An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. (Jacqueline K. Onassis: First Lady of the United States during the presidency of John F. Kennedy and who was regarded as an international icon of style and culture, 1929-1994)

PURPOSE : If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)