P.D. James Quotes

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

The selfie is the new way to look someone right in the eye and say, 'Hello, this is me.'

You are successful if you are able to work on the kind of material that you want to - if your life conforms to your dreams, regardless of outside acceptance or acclaim.

Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.

The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

The voter is basically dumb and lazy. The reason I became a Democratic operative instead of a Republican was because there were more Democrats that didn’t have a clue than there were Republicans.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.

In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it.

Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine.

This is your here, this is your now, let it be magical!

Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.

The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

We are so busy giving our children what we never had that we forget to give them what we did have.

People always complain about something. If you face yourself and stand up strong, you're OK. You can't go wrong.

One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.

The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.

There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.

You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

The only investment I ever made which has paid consistently increasing dividends is the money I have given to the Lord.

Being in attack mode is something I try to bring into every single game, and that's what's making me be so successful.

When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny, as America did.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

My lifestyle determines my deathstyle.

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.