P.D. James Quotes

Live win, dare fail.

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.

No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

Before I got in the car, I was puking all over the place and on the grid. I was just a shaking wreck.

Children represent God's most generous gift to us.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

You can overcome wrong technology. Your people have the initiative, they see the problem, no big deal ... you can't overcome bad culture. You've gotta change whoever is in charge.

There are some people who think you have to hate them in order to shoot them. I don't think you do. It's just business.

Nobody's taller than the last man standing

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.

The doctrines of grace stand or fall together, and together they point to one central truth: salvation is all of grace because it is all of God; and because it is all of God, it is all for His glory.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.

There is one Metallica. We have many styles, it's called Metallica.

Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.

I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.

Love loves to love love.

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.

The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books - mine included - because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened.

The two things you can't fake are good food and good music

I just want to thank God for everything he has done in my life.

After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts.You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get the camera to see

The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death...

Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whiskey. Whiskey is a slap on the back, and champagne's a heavy mist before my eyes.

Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.

The United States is the only country with a known birthday.

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is... James Cameron.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of.

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.

I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel that it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third place, and teaching the fourth.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.