P. D. James Quotes

It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.

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• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Eye
  • Healthy
  • Beholder

• Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Long
  • Live
  • Lived

• The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Home
  • Enjoy
  • Very

• The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Man

• I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Children
  • Day

• I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Work
  • School
  • Lost

• It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Time
  • Long
  • Truth

• The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Bad
  • Motivated
  • News

• My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Teacher
  • Brother
  • Sister

• What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Relationship
  • Say
  • Manager

• Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Work
  • Easy
  • Hard Work

• I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Parents
  • Science
  • Dad

• When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Strong
  • Mom
  • Cancer

• One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Movie
  • Challenge

• On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • End
  • Back
  • Bus

• Ever since I was a teenager, my style around girls has been kinda like 'laid back in da cut.'

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Style
  • Like
  • Teenager

• I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American cultural showcase. It's there to be a museum showcase of all that's great about American music.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Music
  • American

• It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Style
  • Partner

• The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • May
  • History

• Well, here’s a scientific question: Has anybody ever seen hard evidence? What we get is theories from our earlier prophets. Now, people who think that God invented us think that the Earth can’t be more than 6,000 years old. So I guess it’s a question of belief. My belief system doesn’t support a creator as such, as we can call God, who created us in His/Her/Its image.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Question
  • Evidence
  • Theories

• I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • School
  • Dream
  • Dance

• All that is base in the masses is temporary, no doubt serving only to prevent evolution (that of the elite, as well) from proceeding too quickly and thus not becoming 'reality.'

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Reality
  • Doubt

• It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.

  

  P. D. James
  • May
  • Question