P.D. James Quotes

Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe until a trespass on the Constitution provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents and invasion of the dearest rights.

To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression.

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

I've always felt that night doesn't fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It's one of the best seats in the house.

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers

Fate loves the fearless.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

I am very grateful for my life. I think one of the keys to not being depressed is to find gratitude and to be grateful for what you have. So I am grateful for what I have.

If this is the only life, then why I’m not just doing everything I want to do.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.

I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind failure.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.

The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination.

Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).

I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses.

The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting.

If in order to kill the enemy you have to kill an innocent, don't take the shot. Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.

The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process.

No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.

No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.

If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.

Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

So, I'm going to go over on Angel. Joss is just going to find a way to keep me bleaching my hair, which is fine.

The only thing that will make a souffle fall is if it knows you're afraid of it.

For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.

There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline...you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

My object has been, first to discover correct principles and then to suggest their practical development.

Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.

They lived and laughed and loved and left.

It makes my head explode when there are people who think you can do everything in HTML.