P.D. James Quotes

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.

The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.

Show me a husband who keeps his thoughts to himself, and I will show you a frustrated wife.

For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

God looked through eternity past and He saw you and He chose to reach out and redeem you by His own grace. It's hard to imagine that kind of love.

Gratitude is the attitude that sets the altitude for living.

Joy isn't grounded in our circumstances; it is grounded in the unchanging character of God.

In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Never dig up in unbelief what you have sown in faith.

Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.

In the present, every day is a miracle.

Everybody is born good and everybody has got the same size soul. We're here to connect with that.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

The future belongs to brands that do more than pay lip-service to real dialogue and recognise that their customers want them to believe in something.

After I was diagnosed with celiac disease, I said yes to food, with great enthusiasm. . . . I vowed to taste everything I could eat, rather than focusing on what I could not.

My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.

Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.

I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.

To become a champion, fight one more round.

I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

Messengers and mountain bikers share a common chromosome.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

We learn by teaching.

Wake up! Time to die!

You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall.

Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself.

I thought it reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and the workers fewest.

Rock stars are incredibly energizing to me.

As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be

It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore, but a supreme delight.

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

To forgive is human, to forget divine.

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.

A real man has no tougher judge than himself.

Music was the voice I didn't have.