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

• To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

  

  Pierre Corneille
  • Country
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Fame

• I chose 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective,' or I'll say it chose me, and it was an absolute blessing, for the experience of being in Africa for seven months and learning so many different things, from languages to foods to greetings. On so many levels, it was an incredible experience.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Learning

• If a quick glance back over world history shows us anything, it shows us that war was one of our most universal joys from our earliest beginnings, savored at every possible opportunity and even some quite incomprehensible ones.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • War
  • History
  • Opportunity

• The '60s weren't my cup of tea. I never bought that philosophy that, you know, we're all brothers and that'll solve everything. And I never believed that music dictated the times. I always thought it reflected them.

  

  Phil Everly The Everly Brothers
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Times

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

  

  P. D. James