P D James Quotes

You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.

We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it.

If you know from whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations on where you can go.

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

Now I think I understand how this world can overcome a man.

Books are keys that open many doors.

People want us, or want us dead, because of what we are, not who we are. It's hard.

People want us, or want us dead, because of what we are, not who we are. It's hard.~Angel

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand.

The weather gods are toying with us." - Dr. James Stagg

In the firmament of science Mayer and Joule constitute a double star, the light of each being in a certain sense complementary to that of the other.

I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.

Dream as if you will live forever

Now, Max, I think we both know your parents aren't missionaries."I opened my eyes wide. "No? Well, for God's sake, don't tell them. They'd be crushed. Thinking they're doing the Lord's work and all.

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind

You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face

Whose little boy are you?

For with much wisdom comes much sorrow

Lady Wisdom will be your close friend

I've been in love with you since the very beginning. You asked why there isn't anyone else in my life, and the reason... is you.

Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart.

I don't think you ever realize how much you love something until you have to give it up.” ~Haley James Scott

This is an Aston Martin, Gin.You don't run over dead bodies in an Aston Matin.""Tell that to James Bond

He's the meanest one. We call him..Byrd the Turd

Rina’s always claimed that I expect too little from life, ” Standard said.“Then at least you’ll never be disappointed.

Once upon a time, Jack wouldn't have been caught dead in a princess rescue.

If Fran Lebowitz and Ian Fleming had blessed the world with a love child it would have been author J. Fields Jr.

You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry."No, I think you're like James, " said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.

They called you the Glue""The Glue?""Yeah. Probably because you're kind of the glue that holds us all together

After Congress passed SJ Res 34, we are no longer merely battling a cyber-kinetic war on all fronts, we are now in a state of perpetual cyber-kinetic-meta war, and there will be no end.

Wharton thought no one could have freedom, but James knew no one wanted freedom.

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon

The answer is always "No" until you ask. - Ref James 4:2

I have just read a long novel by Henry James. Much of it made me think of the priest condemned for a long space to confess nuns.

What are we doing to keep the light shining in our own eyes and countenances

But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst

Leaving James was not something Nina had thought possible, but if she could do so and still keep her children, it might be better for them, as well as for her.

Music is the space between the notes as much as the notes themselves

Your on the planet too. Why should James Bond have all the action, fun, money, and resort hotel living.

You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on

Small children are capable of great love. Love that overwhelms. Love that changes small worlds completely. Dangerous feelings that blot out everything.

The American girl isn't ANY girl

It's your destiny to be here, Dana.""Oh really. How nice. Is it Brandon's destiny to be here too?""Yep.

Tonight let's slay some dragons.

Max is short for General Maximus Decimus Meridius.

Brandon tilted his head back and closed his eyes. Unbelievable. He had his name. God had given it. Just like Reece said he would.

A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like columns of shit, could both recultivate the earth.

I never take out clients. It’s bad policy.” He looked me straight in the eyes as he said it. Reaching across for the glove compartment, his arm accidentally brushed my leg.

Putting aside your blatant patriarchal biases in assuming the necessary presence of a male familial figurehead, yes, I had a nice brunch, thanks.

Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did