P.D. James Quotes

It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.

A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution.

I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.

Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.

A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.

I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.

Be the hunter, not the hunted: Never allow your unit to be caught with its guard down.

If your ideas are good they rise, and if they're a bit crap they sink.

For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

For every moment of truth, there's confusion in life

And there I was, pretty as heck, brown eyes, a few freckles, fashion challenged, and a bad attitude. Max II.

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

The men in my life were wonderful, but they were very artistic and very creative and they were adventurers like myself. So it wasn't right to settle down with them.

...simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.

If a person lacks self- acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others can't live with him.

Spiritual evolution is part of every soul's destiny on Earth, and each soul grows and evolves at a different rate. You are right where you need to be.

We are not good at recognizing distant threats even if their probability is 100%. Society ignoring [peak oil] is like the people of Pompeii ignoring the rumblings below Vesuvius.

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.

Music reminds us that the universe loves us

Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.

I'd like to thank the academy and I'd like to thank my mother and I'd like to thank my mother again, because I forgot to thank her last year.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.

maybe, beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts.maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside

For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

The journey of true success and lasting leaderships begins with the inward journey to the soul.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.

Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?

The globe of this earth … [is] … not just a machine but also a organised body as it has a regenerative power.

if the people are to be our governors, they must arm themselves with knowledge.

INTENTIONS + ACTION = WILL

They had a... dog called Bluey. A know psychopath, Bluey would attack himself if nothing else was available.

Education is a vaccine for violence.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.