P.D. James quote: "Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin."

Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and dimin...
P.D. JAMES

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.
P.D. JAMES

It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly info...
P.D. JAMES

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anyt...
P.D. JAMES

Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.
P.D. JAMES

The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trus...
P.D. JAMES

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assau...
P.D. JAMES

Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking...
P.D. JAMES

He had begun the diary less as a record of his life (for whom and why? What life?) than as a regular...
P.D. JAMES

It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate...
P.D. JAMES

Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and si...
P.D. JAMES

The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humo...
P.D. JAMES

If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed...
P.D. JAMES

Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.
P.D. JAMES

Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens...
P.D. JAMES

It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.
P.D. JAMES

It is interesting how often unintelligent, even stupid, women manage their emotional lives more sati...
P.D. JAMES

It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is cap...
P.D. JAMES

Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individu...
P.D. JAMES

All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.
P.D. JAMES

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of thems...
P.D. JAMES

I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commit...
P.D. JAMES

All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.
P.D. JAMES

Even as a child, I had a sense that I was two people; the one who experienced the trauma, the pain, ...
P.D. JAMES

Your concern would have more weight with us if you were sitting -- as you could be sitting -- on thi...
P.D. JAMES

Crime fiction "confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rationa...
P.D. JAMES

[Soho] is all things to all men, catering comprehensively for those needs which money can buy. You s...
P.D. JAMES

Benton had a strong interest in helping to ensure that Warren's home life wasn't greatly disturbed: ...
P.D. JAMES

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.
P.D. OUSPENSKY

A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.
P.D. OUSPENSKY

There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to...
P.D. OUSPENSKY

Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.
JAMES ST. JAMES

I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek&#...
JAMES ST. JAMES

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
JAMES ST. JAMES

Why, oh why, must we always go through pigs to get our truffles?
JAMES ST. JAMES

I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the onl...
JAMES ST. JAMES

We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I'll always be a party monster. I'll always love getting dressed up.
JAMES ST. JAMES

As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.
JAMES ST. JAMES

When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers...
JAMES ST. JAMES

Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.
JAMES ST. JAMES

There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free...
JAMES ST. JAMES

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.
JAMES BLUNT

National honor is the national property of the highest value.
JAMES MONROE

Every person is created in the image of God and has value. Every person. Every person is to be treat...
JAMES LANKFORD

People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I m...
JAMES MCBRIDE

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started openi...
KEVIN JAMES

My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'
KEVIN JAMES

Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.
KEVIN JAMES

I really wasn't a class clown.
KEVIN JAMES

I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.
KEVIN JAMES

Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.
KEVIN JAMES

Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the s...
KEVIN JAMES

I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.
KEVIN JAMES

You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.
KEVIN JAMES

It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.
KEVIN JAMES

I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfo...
KEVIN JAMES

I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are lick...
KEVIN JAMES

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.
KEVIN JAMES

I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to sa...
KEVIN JAMES

Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next...
KEVIN JAMES

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.
KEVIN JAMES

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
KEVIN JAMES

A song can take you to a special time in your life.
KEVIN JAMES

If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, '...
KEVIN JAMES

I could never be James Bond.
KEVIN JAMES

I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.
KEVIN JAMES

You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it&...
JAMES DASHNER

It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.
JAMES WAN

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
JAMES THOMSON

'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
JAMES THOMSON

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by...
JAMES THOMSON

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no ...
JAMES THOMSON

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
JAMES THOMSON

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
JAMES THOMSON

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
JAMES THOMSON

When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feeling...
ETTA JAMES

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a...
JAMES ROUSE

Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you...
JAMES GALWAY

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
JAMES CALLAGHAN

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
JAMES KELLER

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.
JAMES CORDEN

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing,...
LEBRON JAMES

In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If...
LILY JAMES

If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or v...
LENNIE JAMES

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
JAMES BROWN

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply ...
JAMES NAISMITH

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.
LEBRON JAMES

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

See, the thing that bothers me with young actors, young actors of color specifically, is that they s...
JAMES AVERY

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with othe...
JAMES TAYLOR

I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.
JAMES FRANCO

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is ...
JAMES HILLMAN

The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world,...
JAMES HILLMAN

Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
JAMES DYSON

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and ...
JAMES BUCHANAN

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, ...
JAMES ALLEN

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID t...
JAMES WOLCOTT

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that t...
JAMES MONROE

We're in a world where masculinity, especially with these big spectacle movies, is often pushed ...
THEO JAMES

In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, c...
JAMES BELUSHI

An actor should be judged by his performance only.
JAMES DEAN

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the ki...
JAMES DEAN

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's followi...
JAMES DEAN

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this grea...
JAMES DEAN

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to ...
JAMES DEAN

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
JAMES DEAN

The only greatness for man is immortality.
JAMES DEAN

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences li...
JAMES DEAN

I used to fly around quite a bit, you know? I took a lot of unnecessary chances on the highways. And...
JAMES DEAN

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
JAMES DEAN

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things ...
JAMES DEAN

I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't w...
JAMES DEAN

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is end...
JAMES DEAN

The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen.
JAMES DEAN

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and im...
JAMES DEAN

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
JAMES DEAN

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
JAMES DEAN

You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you'...
JAMES DEAN

Racing is the only time I feel whole.
JAMES DEAN

Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life...
JAMES DEAN

I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how ...
JAMES DEAN

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.
KEVIN JAMES

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why...
JAMES WOODS

I've done a lot of work in the gym preparing myself for what is certain to be pretty strenuous p...
JAMES HIBBERD

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current...
WILLIAM JAMES

Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew th...
JAMES HOWE

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES

Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration,...
JAMES LANKFORD

I'm a big cardigan sweater guy.
JAMES FRANCO

No one forgets their first love. You're experiencing all those endorphins and all that dopamine ...
JAMES MARSDEN

I loved all the princess films, and I grew up with them, and I think it's really cool how they&#...
LILY JAMES

You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-a...
JAMES SUROWIECKI

Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the sho...
JAMES HECKMAN

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of respondin...
JAMES ALLEN

A man is literally what he thinks.
JAMES ALLEN

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a ...
JAMES ALLEN

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and y...
JAMES ALLEN

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.
LEBRON JAMES

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I p...
LEBRON JAMES

I'm confident with my ability.
LEBRON JAMES

Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and l...
LEBRON JAMES

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the ...
LEBRON JAMES

There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly w...
LEBRON JAMES

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you h...
LEBRON JAMES

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.
LEBRON JAMES

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.
LEBRON JAMES

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.
LEBRON JAMES

I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.
LEBRON JAMES

Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it...
JAMES DENTON

There's nothing wrong with falling in love and sharing your life with someone.
LILY JAMES

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place ...
JAMES TAYLOR

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.
LEBRON JAMES

I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.
JAMES THOMSON

It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up...
JAMES ALTUCHER

The James Brown story is not about James Brown. It's about who's getting paid, whose interes...
JAMES MCBRIDE

The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.
JAMES MCBRIDE

In a way, light unites the spiritual world and the ephemeral, physical world. People frequently talk...
JAMES TURRELL

In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John M...
JAMES WOLCOTT

I know there's Brooklyn and all the boroughs, but Manhattan specifically is so condensed that th...
THEO JAMES

The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to s...
JAMES LARKIN

Supernatural movies generally have a much more brooding pace. If you look at films like 'The Six...
JAMES WAN

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages, not least of whic...
JAMES BLACK

'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the ...
JAMES WOLCOTT

To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use ...
JAMES HORNER

I think I feel most like a princess when I'm sort of bursting with happiness and love, so whethe...
LILY JAMES

Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go...
JAMES SUROWIECKI

I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like ...
JAMES MCAVOY

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.
JAMES CAMERON

There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what...
JAMES PATTERSON

As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the si...
JAMES LONGSTREET

When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt....
JAMES SUROWIECKI

Is it not the glory of the people of America, that, whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opi...
JAMES MADISON

The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to ...
JAMES MADISON

The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be der...
JAMES MADISON

The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, an...
JAMES MADISON

Equal laws protecting equal rights the best guarantee of loyalty & love of country.
JAMES MADISON

And as it the federal district is to be appropriated to this use with the consent of the State cedin...
JAMES MADISON

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty & Learning, each le...
JAMES MADISON

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over...
JAMES MADISON

The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is...
JAMES MADISON

In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take ...
JAMES MADISON

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of rea...
JAMES MADISON

The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is t...
JAMES MADISON

I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinate...
JAMES MADISON

It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the ...
JAMES MADISON

A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue t...
JAMES MADISON

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
JAMES THURBER

Love is what you've been through with somebody.
JAMES THURBER

Buy a book in brown paper
From Faber and Faber
To see Annie Liffey trip, tumble and caper. JAMES JOYCE

British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut....
JAMES PUREFOY

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanat...
JAMES SINEGAL

I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, '...
JAMES BAY

I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.
JAMES PUREFOY

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruct...
JAMES LARKIN

Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.

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P.D. James

Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.

P.D. James

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