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 think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Good
  • May
  • Want

• 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

• God hears a mother's prayer.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • God
  • Mother
  • Prayer

• My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Free
  • My Life

• 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

• It's always really hard to kill off someone who you just really enjoy working with, writing for, and seeing on the screen.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • Writing

• Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

  

  Christopher Plummer

• Your love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of industry -- and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.

  

  George Washington
  • Religious
  • Moral
  • Habit

• There are always things I find difficult - being in crowds, remembering faces. I do like routines. I always travel with someone. My life in Avignon is a very quiet one. I have an apartment that looks over the whole city. I can drop into town, but a lot of the time I write from home. In some respects I still live a very quiet, simple life.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • God
  • Author
  • Creatures

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

  

  P. D. James