P.D. James Quotes
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.
There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably helpful to security.
It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing.
In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.
A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.
To the man who prays habitually (not only when he feels like it-that is one of the snares of religion-but also when he does not feel like it) Christ is sure to make Himself real.
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.
And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.
The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.
How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.
If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.
A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.
You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.
Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night
