P.D. James Quotes

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.

Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.

Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there, too, as long as that character lives.

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.

I think then I may safely conclude and I firmly believe that American slavery is not only not a sin but especially commanded by God through Moses and approved by Christ through His Apostles.

I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.

In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.

Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.

The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.

I've been in love with you since the very beginning. You asked why there isn't anyone else in my life, and the reason... is you" - J.D.

Books are keys that open many doors -- James Rollins

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

Is it my job to feed my neighbour’s child? I don’t think so.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence that church is for God, about God, through God, and to the glory of His great Son.

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.

Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to make money, but have one pure area.

Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, konnecting people.

The history of the meadow goes like this. No one owns it, no one ever will.

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.

I am the last President of the United States!

If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy.

Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.

Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.

I regret that I should leave this world without again beholding him.

Finding beauty in the dissonance.

If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.

We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view that human beings are basically good, that no one is really lost, that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation.

For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

Life is too short to read a bad book.

I've got soul and I'm super bad.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.