P.D. James Quotes
My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation.
It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel.
The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable of more work with the same expenditure of fuel.
Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.
Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting - an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.
It is time for pastors, priests and all true believers to come out of the closet and stand for truth against the flood of evil.
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
Oh, I'm good. Seriously, after all these years, you'd think I would stop amazing myself. But here I am, still doing it.
Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
A seagull manager is one who periodically flies into the area, makes a lot of noise, dumps on the people, maybe eats their lunch, and flies away.
Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.
I don't really care what people think, ... I just do my own thing. ... I like being loud and letting people know I'm there.
It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!
Don't miss God's fingerprints all over the events, lining up people and circumstances in perfect timing to preserve His people and advance His agenda.
I write, "Give me reason but don't give me choice, because I'll make the same mistake again." I think that's what most men want to be told.
Obstacles are only opportunities to succeed or fail; how we handle them determines what will happen.
Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!
Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.
It always takes a group of people working together with a common purpose in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to get extraordinary things done.
You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.
When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buck teeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.
If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.
Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats...
Every day you reinvent yourself. You’re always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
