P.D. James Quotes
Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.
When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn...but the troops were dazzled!
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them.
Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.
Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
You must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant...and you may quote me.
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance at life you will ever get.
The great thing about the movies ... is-you're giving people little ... tiny pieces of time ... that they never forget.
If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.
I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
You are part of the world's most feared and trusted force. Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
