P.D. James Quotes

Surely the stars are images of love.

Were I not a king, I would be a university man.

Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.

We eat light, drink it in through our skins

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.

Joy comes form knowing God loves me, knows who I am and where I'm going ... that my future is secure as I rest in Him.

Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.

It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

Here's my philosophy in life: If there's a fire, you put it out. If there's a flood, you fill sandbags and you build a dike. You roll up your sleeves and you get to work.

This is our land. This is our world. This is our heritage, and with God's help, we shall reclaim this nation for Jesus Christ. And no power on earth can stop us.

A vital film that needed to be made at this point in history and has been made magnificently.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.

Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

Love must wait; it must break one’s bones.

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

Shower the people you love with love.

There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

May you have happiness, and may you find it making one another happy.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

How many mistakes were made that we don?t know about.

I am proud to be an emotionalist.

In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals.

Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.

The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.

What really matters is what happens in us, not to us.

To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.

Sleep my friend, and you will see that dream is my reality.

Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you are trying to correct.

Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.

God's greatest gift to you is your unlimited potential. Your greatest gift to God is to use that potential to the fullest.

Gin a body meet a body Flyin' through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? and where?

Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.