P.D. James Quotes
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
In every man's heart there is a devil, but we do not know the man as bad until the devil is roused.
We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.
Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.
The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself.
Sometimes it’s not how much light you use to get an effect, it’s how little you use and still make it work. There are a lot of rules to be broken in photography, and you’ve got to have courage.
After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.
The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing's fun. You're getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.
You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.
What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
God's Heart is especially tender toward the downtrodden and the defeated. He knows your name and He has seen every tear you have shed.
The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.
Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.
In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.
I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me
The only time that I am really truly happy—when I feel at my best—is when I'm on the stage.
I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.
Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Never underestimate the totality of chaos and betrayal that comes through currency debasement.
The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.
How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one degree... We don't have much time left.
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.
I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.
Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
