P.D. James Quotes

Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

Our Constitution represents the work of the finger of Almighty God.

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

I'm trying to read a book on how to relax, but I keep falling asleep.

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.

The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.

The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.

In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the outstandingly gifted theoreticians.

The unicorn is a mythical beast.

Women do act their part when they do make their ordered houses know them.

Suddenly I realize That if I stepped out of my body I would break Into blossom.

To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough; so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.

Trust involves letting go and knowing God will catch you.

Thought is the thought of thought.

The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

I won't mention names, but in my career, the most talented people invariably are the easiest and nicest to get along with.

If I had one day when I didn't have to be all confused and didn't have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.

One of the main problems in families today is that we spend less and less time together.... Time together is precious time-time needed to talk, to listen, to encourage, and to show how to do things.

It's a good feeling, that you can put your heart out there, no matter how black it is, and people can understand it.

If the word 'integration' means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.

A noble and God-like character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with God-like thoughts.

I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident.

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.