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Pacifism

"Although I am firmly committed to pacifism, there are times when a right hook can solve many problems."  Kerry Greenwood,  Cooking the Books

Pain

"At least a root canal uses Novocain."  Viva.com ad

"I like paying through the nose, having no selection and dealing with slow service - I enjoy pain."  Danka ad

"Pain doesn't decompose when you bury it."  Ally McBeal

"Pain is inevitable: suffering is optional."  Unknown

Painting

"Painting cleanses the mind and curbs anxiety, augments future good, causes the greatest delight, kills the evils of bad dreams and pleases the household deity." Vishnudharmottara Purana

Sarah Palin

"While it's possible to assert that Sarah Palin was the most qualified person in America for the vice presidency, only approximately nine people have done so with a straight face."  Dahlia Lithwick

Panic

"Panic is my muse."  Zits

Pants

"Never iron pants while you're wearing them."  Jim Davis,  Garfield

Paparazzi

"History offers us not a single recorded cell phone call between Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan in which his most Christian Majesty wishes he were a tampon, or photos of Nell Gwynn sunbathing topless in her walled garden near Whitehall Palace."  Eleanor Herman,  Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge (P.S.)

"If you're going to be famous and have cameras follow you around, you might as well go where the cameras will do some good."  George Clooney

Paper

"Paper has a unique combination of size and portability."  Nicholas V. Duncan

Paperwork

"What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork."  Pearl Bailey

Parent

"A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove ... but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child."  Forest E. Witcraft

"Adults have the rest of their lives to follow their jobs and dreams once their children are adults."  Leslie Held Chucker

"I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, 'How can we screw this kid up?"  Russell Bishop

"Isn't it strange that parents spend the first three years of a child's life teaching him or her to walk and talk, and throughout the rest of his or her childhood, they tell the kid to sit down and be quiet?" Unknown

"Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than raising of the next generation."  C. Everett Koop

"Some people were raised by wolves.  I was raised by drag queens."  Margaret Cho

"The job of a parent is to listen, yes, but ultimately to lead."  Anna Quindlen

"The mothers of small children are all crazy. ... The husbands of mothers of small children are probably driven crazy by their wives."  Robert B. Parker,  Perish Twice

"The only things a parent can give a child are roots and wings."  Hodding Carter

"The problem with parents is they always act like they own the place."  Dennis the Menace (cartoon)

"There's no good phone call late at night."  Larry King

"To have a child is the greatest honor and responsibility that can be bestowed upon any living being."  Christopher Paolini,  Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2)

Paris

"We'll always have Paris."   Casablanca

Participation

"If participation is to be used as a tool for the furtherance of man's happiness and well being, then it must be in a context which recognizes not only individual differences in knowledge and ability, but the primacy of reason over feelings in organizational decision making."  E. A. Locke

Parting 

"Do not be dismayed at good-byes.  A good-bye is necessary before meeting again and meeting again after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends."  Richard Bach

"For me who go, for you who stay, two autumns."  Buson

"Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love."  George Elliot

Party

"You can't party without a piñata."  Home Matters

Passion

"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things."  Unknown

Passport

"Getting a passport is kind of a pain - let's be real.  On the other hand, having people blow up buildings and commit mass murder in the name of their religion is also a pain."  Doug Graham

Past

"It is okay to look at the past.  Just don't stare at it."  Unknown

"Looking back is like looking through a window which is covered with dust: you can just make out the faces, but nothing is clear."  Alexander McCall Smith,  The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa

"No matter where I go, no matter what I leave behind, my past is always with me, like a shadow."  Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson,  Sandworms of Dune

"Our past is not our potential."  Unknown

"The past is a foreign country.  They do things differently there."  L. P. Hartley,  The Go-Between (New York Review Books...  

"The past is not dead.  It's not even past."  William Faulkner

"The Past rides our bumper along life's highways and may, in fact, be inside the car with us.  Who we are is who we were, and the more things change, the less they do, unless we start with our hearts."  Patricia Cornwell,  Isle of Dogs

"The worst part of going back is that the past is never exactly the way you remember it."  Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson,  Sandworms of Dune

"What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened?  If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss over them with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.  Procedural and depopulated.  It's as if a neuron bomb went off and all you're left with are hospital corridors, where you're scanning the walls for familiar photographs."  David Rakoff,  Fraud  

Pastry

"When all passion's spent, there's always pastry."  Last of the Summer Wine

Path

"Does the walker choose the path or the path the walker."  Garth Nix,  Sabriel

"Grasses bury the riverbank, rain darkens the village.
The temple is lost in tall bamboo - I can't find the gate."  Su Tung-po

Patience 

"Patience has its limits.  Take it too far, and it's cowardice."  George Jackson

Patriotism

"My thing is, whether you voted for someone or not, let's pull together and be a nation."  Garth Brooks

"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."  Adlai Stevenson

"We all die sooner or later, every mother's son.  But there are far worse ways for a man to die than defending his homeland."  Sharon Kay Penman,  The Reckoning 

"While we yet hold and do not yield our opposing beliefs, there is a higher duty than we owe to political party.  This is America, and we put country before party."  Al Gore

Payment

"Do good to all men, but at the end remember to collect your fee."  Wilbur Smith,  Monsoon

 

 

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