P.D. James Quotes
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
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.
In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals.
Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.
Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.
I love showcasing my talents - not only to my hometown fans and my own team but to the world.
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.
Public sentiment is not observed. The wealthy and powerful gain a ready hearing, but the plodding, suffering, unorganized complaining multitude are spurned and derided.
A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.
When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feelings, good feelings, ups and downs, highs and lows, that kind of thing.
She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.
A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.
The acid test of any truth is found in whether it aids victims in their struggle to overcome victimisation.
If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.
I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.
If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.
We thought these incidents warranted a third-party investigation. It will give us some outside expertise and a more global look at the problem.
The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.
We all come to this planet as spiritual beings destined to experience a variety of challenges and situation in order to grow and evolve spiritually.
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.
And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.