P.D. James Quotes

When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight.

Belief creates the actual fact.

You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

We have the power, knowledge, and equipment to build a world beyond our wonder. Only loss of nerve can defeat us.

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

The content of your thoughts and personal beliefs can be proven by a single indicator - your current results.

Success is usually earned by persevering and not becoming discouraged when we encounter challenges.

Who puts strawberries in a salad? Seriously, is this a thing now? Is it a thing I don't know about? Is it an American thing? It can be. It's freaking me out.

The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned.

Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.

It's how you view the life inside you that creates the life outside of you. Everyday.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true.

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

Comrades - We are living in momentous times!

This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.

The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way.

I've been shucked and gone to heaven.

To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.

All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.

Good is the enemy of great. And that's one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.

I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.

Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.

Work, hard work, intelligent work, and then more work.

Never sacrifice your family. They are the most important thing in life.

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!

How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern.

Dreams die hard. And sometimes they don't have to die at all.

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

I think that people get outraged over things. I think what we really need is a kind of borderline extinction level event to get people back to caring about what really matters.