P.D. James Quotes

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.

It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

The passenger train is like the male teat - neither useful nor ornamental.

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

Good conscience is the most valuable asset of all!

It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away.

Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.

Christ, who came meek and mild to save us from pain and suffering, was the One who talked more about hell than any other person in Scripture.

The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring.

It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

I don't have everything I want but I have everything I need. That's contentment.

I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

Will you be my shoulder when I'm gray and older? Promise me tomorrow starts with you. Getting high, running wild among the stars above. Sometimes it's hard to believe you remember me.

If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either".

Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.

If many people love me, then I must be important.

Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.

if you are going to be pushed you had better jump

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

To be honest, all I wanted to do, all I ever, ever wanted to do - I just wanted to perform.

A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate.

If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.

Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!

I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.

We are never prepared for what we expect.

Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.

Good bread and good butter go together. They are one of the perfect marriages in gastronomy, and they never fail to cheer me.

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?

Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.

In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love.

But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.