P.D. James Quotes

You never know . . . that's what makes life interesting.

Minds, like parachutes, work only when open.

I want to be a part of the grand plan. Being on board with God's objectives means I understand that this is not about me.

Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.

The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime.

I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.

When God promises, He's not saying, I'll try. He means, I can and I will.

That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.

They serve best who give most of themselves. Self is forgotten by the one who serves, for such a one rejoices to see success coming to others through his or her efforts.

The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location.

I'm a fanatic about Irish music. I love its moody, modal and timeless quality. I'm different from some other composers, because I don't look at this as just a job. I think of music as art.

Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.

I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake

In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.

The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

Being unprepared heightens nerves.

Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

You cannot eat your cake and have it.

Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.

America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

We human beings can survive the most difficult of circumstances if we are not forced to stand alone.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

Racing is the only time I feel whole.

There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.

I have gone wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any of them.

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

The very mudsills of society. We call them slaves. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal.

Artists are here to disturb the peace.

I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

When I have a problem I pray about it, and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer.

It's hard to pay attention and stay focused, especially when there is a lot going on around you.

I think I'm losing my hair finally. And, yeah, that's kind of all I know.

[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish.

Back before Napster and Spotify, we toured to promote record sales. Now we make records to promote tour dates.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.