P.D. James Quotes

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.

I'm not addicted to drugs, I'm addicted to glamour.

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

A Good Samaritan is not simply one whose heart is touched in an immediate act of care and charity, but one who provides a system of sustained care.

This isn't higher education studying itself.

The Magnificent Seven was really kind of a miraculous event that took place in my life.

There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

A child identifies his parents with God, whether or not the adults want that role. Most children 'see' God the way they perceive their earthly fathers.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

When the lights come on inside of you, everyone in the world can see a little better.

The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.

The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.

The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.

Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his.

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

I'm not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Rap is just to me very annoying.

If a man . . . would shake and not be shaken, grip and not be gripped, taking care always to squeeze the hand of his adversary as hard as it squeezed him, then he suffered no inconvenience from it.

You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it's going to be bad.

I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

The problem of evil is raised more often by spectators of life than the actual combatants. You will hardly ever find that the great sufferers are the great skeptics.

If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.

I believe that anybody who gets married should go to a counselor for months before the wedding. I think that's going to save guys a lot of money and the ladies a lot of heartbreak.

Human improvement is from within outward.

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

Be kind to people whether they deserve your kindness or not. If your kindness reaches the deserving good for you if your kindness reaches the undeserving take joy in your compassion.

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

The world's greatest champion of woman and womanhood is Jesus the Christ.

The New Testament preaches a Christ who was dead and is alive, not a Christ who was alive and is dead.

The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.

Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.

Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth.

Learn your lines… plant your feet… look the other actor in the eye… say the words… mean them.

No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.

The real payoffs you never understand. You should just give good people money and tell them to do good things.