P.D. James Quotes
It is confidently believed that our system may be safely extended to the utmost bounds of our territorial limits.
There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.
Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls.
The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.
Take a deep breath and take this to heart; God has nothing to do with broken promises. When He says, I promise, mark it down it's going to happen.
All of my fans are beautiful. Some don't know it, & that sucks 'cause every girl deserves to know they are beautiful.
My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.
But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.
Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it.
Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.
If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.
We believe PR should be practiced to serve the public interest, to develop mutual understanding between organizations and their publics.
Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism.
I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.
Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.
I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.
Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.
It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something.
Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.
No one ever truly comes to know, honor, or worship God without being changed in the process
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.
I've always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities.
With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it.
