P.D. James Quotes
When you have the feeling that anything’s possible, sometimes you wind up acting on it.
Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, let’s give it another go.
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing.
I want a Sunday kind of love A love to last past Saturday night And I’d like to know it’s more than love at first sight
The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.
We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.
Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike.
We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life.
One thing that has made a big comeback just recently is this business of speaking with the dead. To my innocent mind, 'dead' implies incapable of communicating.
You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.
What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.
Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.
In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear.
All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.
Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble.
You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can.
The result, therefore, of this physical enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.
