Pd James Quotes

Right and wrong isn’t a matter of ethics, rather it’s the geography in which you reside and whose control you’re under. Tallinn Manual 2.0 is based largely on western international humanitarian law.

It's far too easy to forget, miss or not appreciate the tiny things a partner does every single day, but should you wait until it's over or they've gone to miss who they were?

[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning

I went back to my conversation with Siegfried that morning

Animals fight wars

Control is never achieved when sought after directly

All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.

What mattered at fifty-eight was what had mattered at eighteen: breeding and good bone structure.

You know, sloth is a sin, " he says softly. "I prefer to think of it as an adorable animal.

The size of a diamond doesn't indicate the size of my love for you. The earth hasn't produced a diamond that big because my love for you knows no bounds. Ronin Black

Don't let doubt steal your dreams.

A writer cannot really grasp what he has written. It is not like a building or a sculpture

He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs."One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is all right".

She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze

Seclusion wasn't good for anyone

Dalgliesh was too experienced to assume that fear implied guilt

I remembered my father telling me when I was a little girl, "Guilt is bullshit. Don't ever let anyone make you feel guilty.

The platinum Omega watch he gave me at breakfast on our first morning in London obscures the red line. The inscription still makes me swoon. AnastasiaYou are My MoreMy Love, My LifeChristian

Write about only three things: what you love, what you hate, and what you’re deeply conflicted about.

Well, we could have just given him a horse and sent him on his way, but... Ancaladar ate the horse.

Now, Joyce being Joyce, he has about five different purposes, one not being enough for genius.

Whose starboard eyeSaw chariot 'swing low'?

We choose exile as a vantage point

Listen, last time I talked to you three, you were all two oars short of having any oars, so I don't want to hear it.

James Bond: a paid assassin of plutocratic cartels, a womanizer, a dipsomaniac, a speed demon, a materialist.

She's right, Kate's right, I'm right and you're wrong. If you drive her away from here it will be over my dead— chair, has it never occurred to you at on one occasion you might be consummately wrong?

Rampaging horsemen can conquer

Math is my Passion. Engineering is my Profession.

In such uncommon longings, hidden in plain sight in our lives, does God call us.

He rarely saw a doorway without advancing through it as if he owned it. Since he owned a good many doorways, he would have pointed out that this was a reasonable assumption.

I didn't have a heart until I meet you.That smile is killin me too.I can't look away.Can I always stay?I can't look away.I need to stay.I didn't have a heart until I meet you.

The battle is always the same, just with different chapters.

You'll stay with me? Until the very end, said James. They won't be able to see you? asked Harry. We are part of you, said Sirius. Invisible to anyone else.

Every student, Shadowhunter and mundane alike, knew the name Herondale. It was Jace’s last name. It was the name of heroes.

And by the way, I know my title said “10 Reasons” and I only listed “6”. I didn’t learn to count in college.

My envy's not dangerous

That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor".

Overall, Cyber Shield Act is an excellent idea and could facilitate a much-needed cultural shift in secure device manufacturing and upkeep.

The Cyber Shield Act could serve as a secure conduit to facilitate update and patch delivery

In this cyberwar, industry is on their own and must combat nation states, cyber mercenaries, cyber caliphate and other actors via layered security laced with intelligent machines.

There's a compounding and unraveling chaos that is perpetually in motion in the Dark Web's toxic underbelly.

The Cyber Shield Act could serve as a secure conduit to facilitate update and patch delivery"James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

To accept one's past -- one's history -- is not the same thing as drowning in it

Whaaaaaat is going on?" May whispered out of the corner of her mouth."I'm sort of comforted by the fact that I can't figure it out, " Jack responded.

Factual reporting is all too often propaganda designed to provoke certain reactions from the masses.

Henry James said there isn't any difference between "the English novel" and "the American novel" since there are only two kinds of novels at all, the good and the bad.

Health is a human necessity

There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ...

If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either