P. D. James Quotes

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

P. D. James

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• First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Reality
  • Imagination
  • Ideas

• I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Think
  • Girls
  • Horrible

• Take good care of our fragile planet.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Good
  • Care
  • Take

• But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

  

  Frances Perkins
  • Progress
  • Depression
  • Slow

• When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Power
  • Single
  • Year

• It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Chaos
  • Step
  • Boredom

• I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Life
  • World
  • Game

• Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Public
  • Sides

• I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • World
  • Wish
  • Dreams

• I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Different
  • Character
  • Think

• I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Help
  • Brothers
  • Sights

• In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Work
  • Day
  • Week

• I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Life
  • Think
  • Better

• I've always looked old for my age.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Age
  • Always
  • Old

• Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Walking
  • New York

• I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Musicians

• The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.

  

  Origen
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Best
  • Confidence
  • Face

• I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way. I am so desperately worried about anybody saying, "She cut in line," or "She took our table," or "She doesn't do her own grocery shopping." It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. But it almost doesn't matter to a certain segment of the populace.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Life
  • School
  • Kids

• The wisest man knows he know nothing.

  

  A. Lee Martinez

• Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well.

  

  Kathleen Turner
  • Live
  • Done
  • Passion

• Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Party
  • Said
  • Treated

• I never wanted to be an actor.

  

  Moon Bloodgood
  • Actors
  • Wanted

• Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

  

  P. D. James
  • Actors
  • Mysterious
  • Suicide