P.D. James Quotes
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.
I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.
Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.
I’m a serious-minded and intense little devil – terribly gauche and so tense that I don’t see how people can stay in the same room as me. I know I couldn’t tolerate myself.
You'll never be fully engaged in where you are or where you're going by settling for normal. Here's a fact: No one who was normal ever made history. Drop that fantasy like a hot rock!
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.
Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.
When you come to the place where you can't do anything else, you must stand still and believe... When you can't do anything, let God do it all.
People get upset and it becomes an excuse to treat other people a certain way,but if you really step back, you realize what you've left behind.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military prowess.
The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.
The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.
The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.
You have to do what's best for you and what's going to make you happy at the end of the day, because no one can live with the consequences or anything that comes with your decision besides you.
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
