P. D. James Quotes

If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?

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• One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Up
  • Never
  • Period

• There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Money
  • American
  • History

• The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Time
  • American
  • History

• It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Time
  • Character
  • Relationship

• I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Childhood
  • Acting
  • Pride

• There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Time
  • Period

• When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Character
  • House
  • Period

• I definitely think being a young girl, there's a time where - like when you're in middle school or when you first start liking boys - you don't really feel comfortable. You remember that time when you first got your period, or when your boobs started coming in, that you were like, 'This is weird.' You have to grow into yourself.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Time
  • School
  • Remember

• The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • People
  • Pride
  • Leaving

• To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Work
  • Live
  • Trying

• Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Period

• I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Myself
  • Pride
  • Honor

• To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • World
  • Real
  • History

• Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Man
  • Pride
  • Disaster

• The '60s is one of my favourite eras in general. I love '60s music, and I've always wanted to do a period film.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Music
  • Period
  • General

• Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Up
  • God
  • Night

• More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Great
  • Control
  • Pride

• Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Art

• The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Men
  • Death
  • Black

• 'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Like

• Cutting edge technologies have allowed us to utilize coal's diverse potentials. Not only are we using coal in cleaner and more environmentally sound methods, but importantly, we can turn coal into gasoline and diesel.

  

  Peter Roskam
  • Potential
  • Technologies
  • Coal

• I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Want
  • Like
  • Painting

• If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?

  

  P. D. James
  • Period
  • Pride