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Pachaud, George W.

Why inflict pain on oneself, when so many others are ready to save us the trouble?

Paddleford, Clementine

Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

Paine, Thomas

My mind to me an empire is.

Paine, Thomas

My own mind is my own church.

Paine, Thomas

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Page, Irvine H.

I came, I saw, I concurred.

Pankhurst, Emmeline

Trust in God. She will provide.

Parker, Dorothy

Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

Parker, Dorothy

He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

Parker, Dorothy

How could I possibly overthrow the government when I can't even keep my dog down?

Parker, Dorothy

I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound&emdash;if I can remember any of the damn things.

Parker, Dorothy

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Parker, Dorothy

Women and elephants never forget.

Parr, Ellen

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Parton, Dolly

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Pascal, Blaise

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

Pastoret, Phil

If you think a dog can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.

Paterno, Joe

You've got to believe deep inside yourself that you're destined to do great things.

Patton, George

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Pavlova, Anna

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Paz, Octavio

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialect between the two.

Peace Pilgrim

You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing.

Perez, Rosie

If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knocking it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.

Peter, Laurence J.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

Peter, Laurence J.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear, but forgetting where you heard it.

Picasso, Pablo

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Pickford, Mary

If you have made mistakes . . . there is always another chance for you . . . you may have a fresh start at any time you chose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Pickford, Mary

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another choice for you. What we call failure is not failing down, but staying down.

Pierson, Scott

To err is human, but the eraser should outlive the pencil.

Pine, Albert

What we do for ourselves dies with us; what we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Pipher, Mary

Your journal is a place where your point of view on the universe matters.

Phelps, William Lyon

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

Phillips, Jeanne

All the world's a cage.

Plath, Sylvia

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

Plato

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Pollock, Channing

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Edgar Allan Poe

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream by night.

Poole, Mary Pettibone

There are no old people nowadays; they are either "wonderful for their age" or dead.

Pope, Alexander

Hope springs eternal in the human breast.

Porter, Katherine Ann

An adventure is something you seek for pleasure, even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country; . . . but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

Poundstone, Paula

I don't believe for a second weightlifting is a sport. They pick up a heavy thing and put it down again. To me, that's indecision.

Powell, General Colin Luther

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Powell, General Colin Luther

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, General Colin Luther

You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere, if only out of curiosity.

Prescott, W. B.

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

"Pretty Woman"

Some dreams come true and some don't. But keep on dreaming.

Priest, Ivy Baker

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Proust, Marcel

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our soul blossom.

Proust, Marcel

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Ptahhotep, Maxims of

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

Pythagoras

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

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