P.D. James Quotes

Evaluate what you want - because what gets measured, gets produced.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.

See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers.

I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who mean something special to us.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.

Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

You create your luck by being healthy and not regretting the past or being anxious about the future.

Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life.

Roses bloom, and then they wither; Cheeks are bright, then fade and die; Shapes of light are wafted hither, Then, like visions, hurry by.

I wouldn't like me, if I had to be around me.

There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive.

No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.

The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.

One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.

A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables."

One can lynch a person without a rope or tree.

There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.

It is mostly a matter of wills. Whose will is going to break first? Ours or the enemy's?

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

Here hyacinths of heavenly blue, shook their rich tresses to the morn.

Love can be seen as the answer, but nobody bleeds for the dancer

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?

Assume nothing, question everything.

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

We have an opportunity to get better.

It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.

There is but one kind of love; God is love, and all his creatures derive theirs from his; only it is modified by the different degrees of intelligence in different beings and creatures.

I love the horse from hoof to head. From head to hoof and tail to mane. I love the horse as I have said - From head to hoof and back again.

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

If your work appeals to everyone, it moves no one

Love is the greatest force on earth to resist, limit and ultimately halt evil's deadly progression.

I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again.

Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.

The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

It’s well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.

The script is the coloring book that you’re given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.