P.D. James Quotes

Some times your best effort just isn't good enough.

I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.

A new year reminds us that regardless of how often we fail or miss the mark, God freely offers opportunity to begin anew.

Tell you what I like the best - 'Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strawberries melts On the vine, - some afternoon Like to jes' git out and rest, And not work at nothin' else!

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

The last thing I want to be is sanctimonious, but the thing that frustrates me is the deceit and betrayal, how there's one rule for males and another for females.

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

Love is patient, love is kind, love means slowly losing your mind.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer.

You cannot say, 'No, Lord,' and mean both words; one annuls the other. If you say no to Him, then He is not your Lord.

Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

Dreams and expectations also have the very dark flipside of disappointment, broken dreams.

She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?

The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.

All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.

The only way to remain great is to keep on applying the fundamental principles that made you great.

It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.

Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance but eccentricity and a wholly unfamiliar sense of pleasure called joy.

There's no friends like the old friends.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.

Nothing in this life worth achieving is easy, nor is it impossible.

After age 70, it's patch, patch, patch.

I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites.

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition. He would be a missionary simpleton who expected plain sailing in any work of God.

I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.

In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.

The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.