P.D. James Quotes

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Nothing keeps me awake at night. I keep other people awake at night.

The world seemed less scary and I started to like myself a little bit more.

There are 3 rules to follow if you want to change; (1) Start immediately, (2) Do it flamboyantly, (3) No exceptions.

Games have been called the lab for the development of moral attributes, but they will not, of themselves, accomplish this purpose. They must be properly conducted by competent individuals.

After enough concussions the head injuries blur together.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

When I miss you, sometimes I listen to music or look at pictures of you, not to remind me of you but to make me feel as if I'm with you. It makes me forget the distance and capture you.

Whether you're a cameraman or a director, you should ask yourself every now and then, 'What am I trying to do?' Be honest and keep things very simple.

The ripest peach is highest on the tree

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

Too few people understand a really good sandwich.

In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.

Too many times we're looking for ways to get around deep waters and dangerous fires, rather than through them. Has this ever been your experience?

Beware of begging God for things you don't have to have.

Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.

Management is simple, innovation is hard.

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!

People look for their passions. But often, the passions find you. How does your #‎ passion find you? When you are good at something, you get passionate about it. That’s it.

At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.

So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!

Perhaps the single most important thing that we can do to undo the harm we have done is to fix firmly in our minds the thought: the earth is alive.

If the entire Union Army comes across here, I will kill them all!

Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.

Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards).

I'm with Houston now. I just have to come in here and play hard and win games.

If everyone was the same, it would be boring as sh*t

Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

Just follow me and run like your life depends on it. Because it does.

Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.

Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

Right reason is stronger than force.

We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin the earth again.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

France is a country you have to drive through to get to Italy. That's all it's there for.

You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself.

Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.