#pa

If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#couple #excellence #forces #forms #human

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape. ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#day #each #glass #great #i

The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure. ↗

— Gerard Debreu

#dark #exerted #german #occupation #outside

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white. ↗

— Stuart Pearce

#black #black and white #brought #football #guided

The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#discoveries #infinitely #knit #made #more

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#defend #destruction #eventually #fact #inescapable

I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in. ↗

— Gregory Peck

#believe #classified #embarrassed #humanitarian #i

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence. ↗

— Robert Peel

#being #citizen #community #duties #every

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#avoid #belief #calm #change #dissatisfied

We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks. ↗

— Philippe Perrin

#assemble #bring #conduct #desired #equipment