P.D. James Quotes
The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.
And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.
Give people a common enemy, and you will give them a common identity. Deprive them of an enemy and you will deprive them of the crutch by which they know who they are.
Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.
We have at most ten years—not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions.
Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.
Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?
An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses.
The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.
The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is capable.
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.
Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.
I'm a guy who tries to be successful in all that I do, and when you fall short, it hurts.
There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch: A cloister, a silence Closing around a blossom of fire. When I stand upright in the wind, My bones turn to dark emeralds.
Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.
Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.
The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.
Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go; At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.
There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.
The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.
What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.
Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies.
We perhaps need to snatch happiness in little pieces, learning to recognize the elements of happiness and then treasuring them while they last.
Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.
All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.
