P.D. James Quotes
The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
The footsteps a child follows are most likely to be the ones his parents thought they covered up.
If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.
Whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country.
The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.
It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on
NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.
I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.
I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through.
In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
I can't hang out as loose as I used to, but I can still go down Jefferson Avenue and look in the faces of winos, pimps and junkies, all the things I'm made of.
We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.
My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.
There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work.
Can't you see the Creator of the universe, who understands every secret, every mystery, sitting patiently and listening to a four-year-old talk to Him? That's a beautiful image of a father.
Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself.
My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.
There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
This is a business and everything happens for a reason. I'm going to just to play hard, try to play hard and do whatever it takes to win.
Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.
Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
