P.D. James Quotes
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology
When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife.
My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.
All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.
If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.
If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.
When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.
If I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.
Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.
It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends.
As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.
The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.
The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.
Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
Institutional practices, it seems, perpetuate themselves mostly by their invisibility.
Go to the people Live among them Learn from them Love them Serve them Plan with them Start with what they know Build on what they have.
If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.
I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.
If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others...become an author.
That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.
Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was quite enthusiastic.
Just curious. Does the president of the United States have any advice for other teenage boys in America? Wounded warriors, for example . . .
As the number of studies increased, it became clear that writing was a far more powerful tool for healing than anyone had ever imagined.
The more we make an effort to keep our thoughts positive, the more pleasurable our journey in life will be.
Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.
I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted to have the work be light.
I don't expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to date.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.