P.D. James Quotes

My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly

It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect.

There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

I'm a psychopath, but I don't have a problem with that.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.

I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do.

The useless men are those who never change with the years.

In becoming part of the Body of Christ, sickness should have no more mastery over us than it had over the Body of Christ when He was on the earth.

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.

To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people!

It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.

Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.

Don't take care of your career. Take care of your people. They will take care of your career.

We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others.

White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!

Who then is the greatest leader? The one who has served the most.

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

To make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.

Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.

As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.

If you think you're a leader and you turn around and no one is following you, then you're simply out for a walk.

Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili.

If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.

Let's make hay while it lasts.

Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, 'I and my Father are One.'

God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead.

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.

Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.

We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.

Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.

To experience some healing within yourself, and to contribute healing to the world, you are summoned to wade through the muck from time to time.

There is no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.