P. D. James Quotes

I'm not a tyrant, but I can't afford to be merciful. Whatever it is necessary to do, I will do it.

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• We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Night
  • Practice
  • Starts

• Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Diversity
  • Thousand

• I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Science

• Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Cool
  • Hands
  • Speech

• I'd never rule anything out, to be honest with you, whether it be the small of volunteer status for a community organization or national politics, who knows?

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Small
  • Community
  • Politics

• With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Faith
  • Movies
  • Superhero

• Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Good
  • Become
  • Some

• I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Think
  • Me
  • Player

• I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Meaning
  • Consequence

• There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Computers
  • Unpredictable

• What's a hero if not for its journey.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Journey
  • Hero

• Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • High
  • You
  • Connection

• 要使文艺很好地成为整个革命机器的一个组成部分，作为团结人民、教育人民、打击敌人、消灭敌人的有力的武器，帮助人民同心同德地和敌人作斗争。

  

  Mao Zedong

• I don’t get angry, I don’t want to use harsh words. They are our colleagues and we have to work with them. But they also have to learn to work with us.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Work
  • Words
  • Angry

• Roses red and violets blew, And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Red

• Kindness and friendliness become aspects of personalized service or of public relations of big firms, rationalized to further the sale of something. With anonymous insincerity, the Successful Person thus makes an instrument of his own appearance and personality.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Service
  • Personality
  • Kindness

• Liberation of the seer is the result of the dissassociation of the seer and the seen.

  

  Patanjali

• From the time, I have been in politics, your love has kept me going. All Gujaratis have all right on me, but you have now shared that right with the people of India.' 'It's the first poll in my political life when I didn't have political sabha in Ahmedabad.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • America
  • Hope

• Many traditions date the existence of angels and demons from a remote period before the creation of the world, but some connect the fall of Satan and his host with the creation of man.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • World
  • Man
  • Fall

• I really believe in the power of comics as an educational thing, even ones as silly as mine, because they're a gateway to the actual thing. They're like an easy entrance.

  

  Kate Beaton
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Comics

• The lead singer for Deerhunter, Bradford Cox... I don't like saying people are geniuses or whatever, but I just think that dude is so good at every single thing he does. He stays within his genre, but I think he does so well experimenting with stuff.

  

  Blake Anderson
  • People
  • Good
  • Single

• I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Wonder
  • Mistake
  • Regret

• I'm not a tyrant, but I can't afford to be merciful. Whatever it is necessary to do, I will do it.

  

  P. D. James