P. D. James Quotes

Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.

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• My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Father
  • Guy

• People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Money
  • Think

• I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Know
  • Car
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• I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Doing
  • Old
  • Reach

• Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.

  

  Larry King
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Me

• I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stupid
  • Actions
  • Suffer

• I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Feel

• Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Fall
  • Moving
  • Speak

• My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • World
  • Music
  • School

• Presence is more than just being there.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • More
  • Presence
  • Being There

• My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

  

  W. E. B. Griffin
  • Military
  • Background
  • My Own

• Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Good
  • Today
  • Growth

• I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Like
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• A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Technology
  • Story
  • Old

• For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Free
  • Personal
  • Windows

• I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • God
  • She
  • Woman

• The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• I live in Wales but spend quite a lot of time in London - I stay with my brother. When I get home after being in Manchester or London for a bit, I forget how dark the sky is, and I won't have seen stars for ages.

  

  Kimberley Nixon
  • Time
  • Live
  • Home

• My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Dad
  • Years
  • Corporation

• Not a single muscle quivered On his radiantly evil face. Oh, I know: his delight Is the tense and passionate knowledge That he needs nothing, That I can refuse him nothing.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Knowledge
  • Single
  • Evil

• My mom and dad used to tell me, 'You've got to see this film,' and they were influential to a high degree of the films I saw as a kid.

  

  Jason Statham
  • High
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.

  

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