P. D. James Quotes

Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?

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• At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Life
  • Free
  • You

• If you're famous, you're not free.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Free
  • You
  • Famous

• The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • America
  • Society
  • Free

• As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Truth

• The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Power
  • Free
  • Humanity

• If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Good
  • Men
  • Long

• I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Free

• On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Real
  • Free

• The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Environment

• The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Free
  • Majority
  • Listens

• I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Free

• I don't think people know how much time and effort truly goes into the game and goes into simply just scoring a touchdown. So when you get that opportunity, you should be able to be free and be relaxed from all the pressure that went into scoring that touchdown and have fun.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Power
  • Night

• I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Spirit

• When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Free
  • Discover

• You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Free
  • Start
  • Speech

• This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Free
  • Control
  • Responsibility

• Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Society
  • Free
  • Fear

• Amid all the job losses of the Great Recession, there is one category of worker that the economic disruption has been good for: nonhumans.

  

  Daniel Lyons
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  • Great
  • Job

• After President Obama's election in 2008, there was a widespread hope that it would mark an end to unseemly partisan nastiness.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Hope
  • End
  • Election

• I want a faith that's so alive, it can be seen. I want a hope that cannot hide, even when I'm weak.

  

  Building 429
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Alive

• Food is a huge passion of mine, and because I want to eat whatever I want, I run every morning, and then I do weights a few times a week. It's just how I can balance eating pancakes in the morning, a big burger for lunch, and then a fat steak and cheesecake at night.

  

  Matt Barr
  • Night
  • Food
  • Passion

• Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?

  

  P. D. James
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