P. D. James Quotes

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

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• I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • World
  • Feel
  • Emotion

• Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Struggle
  • Courage

• I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.

  

  Dana Perino
  • History
  • Age
  • Thought

• The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.

  

  Dana Priest
  • Women
  • Society
  • Army

• I am the worlds laziest writer.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Writer
  • Laziest

• Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Freedom
  • Just

• 'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Great
  • Taken
  • Old

• As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • World
  • Man
  • Wish

• I enjoy what I do because it keeps evolving - when I was a cook, I wanted to be a chef de partie; when I was a chef de partie, I wanted to be a chef; when I was a chef, I wanted to be a restaurateur, and now I am a chef entrepreneur. I am still fulfilling my dream.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Dream
  • Entrepreneur
  • Chef

• If you want my answer about Donald Trump, you can Google it. It's everywhere. They've got this new thing called Google.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Want
  • You
  • Trump

• Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Language
  • Body

• I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Heart
  • High

• I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • Time
  • World
  • Believe

• I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. I've done some other indie films, if you look on the YouTube. I love acting - it's great.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Great
  • Love
  • Done

• I've always wanted to do a shoot with snakes - big snakes, like pythons.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Like
  • Always
  • Big

• As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Real
  • Animal

• See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

  

  Eminem
  • Day
  • Poet
  • Modern

• I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.

  

  Joe Cocker
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Control

• When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.

  

  Will Self
  • Giving
  • Creative
  • Criticism

• Where I felt comfortable was being the one that everyone liked to party with. And it was kind of the way I could fit in.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Party

• I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Secret

• When I am on set or rehearsing for the play, the only thing I can talk about is the work I'm doing. In that way, I home in on what I am doing at the time. So maybe I am a terrible multitasker.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Home
  • Way
  • Play

• I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

  

  P. D. James