P.D. James Quotes

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.

I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.

Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.

It doesn't matter what has happened, better things are coming. God's plan produces hope in me.

The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

I’ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing.

I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.

Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

In the case of Five-O, I believe it was a combination of many ingredients - timing, chemistry, Hawaii.

Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.

It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.

I can always guarantee that the Irish Citizen Army will fight but I cannot guarantee that it will be on time

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.

Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.

Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.

Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering.

You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken blessed.

Learning is a gift, even if pain is the teacher

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, this you will become.

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

Materialism is toxic to happiness, and we are losing our connection to the natural world.

All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.

You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist - these are the attributes that get people in the door and on the job, and lead to productive lives.

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

It is just that heavy metal musicians write in minor keys, and when you do that, you frighten people.

In case of dispute, the umpire shall throw it straight into the field.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

No one has a right to occupy the privileged position all the time, so it should be contested. It should always be messy in there.