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We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving ... — P.D. James

I did a show called 'Bakersfield, P.D.' That was one of the best things I have ever done. — Ron Eldard

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species. — P.D. James

The voice in my head has a stutter, and that's really annoying. D-D-D-Dave Dave. What? K-K-K-Kill your p-p-p-parents. L-L-L-Loa ... Write it down! — Dave Attell

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up. — P.D. James

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him. — P.D. James

It is never so difficult to congratulate a friend on her good fortune than when that fortune appears undeserved. — P.D. James

I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern. — P.D. James

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

Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D. — J.P. Donleavy

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less. — P.D. James

A man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something — P.D. Ouspensky

He was discovering that even hatred died a little at the end. But it still lasted longer than desire, longer even than love. — P.D. James

Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. — P.D. Ouspensky

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

I'd trade every last one of you for a moment's peace and a dog that didn't P on the carpet — Lois Greiman

A wise old owl once told me,
One time when he was out of his tree,
That nothing in this world is for free.
I agree! — P.D. Cain

Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free. — P. J. O'Rourke

If he set out right now to make a list of the things he had taken for granted in his life, he'd go broke buying paper. — James P. Blaylock

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment. — P.D. James

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast. — P.D. James

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime. — Carrie P. Meek

Gossip about the feelings of others when we cannot fully understand them, and they may not understand them themselves, can be a cause of distress. — P.D. James

When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed? — P.D. James

I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin. — P.D. James

I totally hate when somebody takes a classic and desecrates it. I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did to 'Kashmir' was a debacle. — Chuck D

Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing. — P.D. James

If she'd been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem. — John Updike

Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it. — P.G. Wodehouse

Truths that become old become decrepit and unreliable; sometimes they may be kept going artificially for a certain time, but there is no life in them. — P.D. Ouspensky

A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for. — P.D. James

The dinosaur, with its small brain, had survived for a couple of million years; it had done better than Homo sapiens. — P.D. James

I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art. — P.D. James

There are few activities so agreeable as spending a friend's money to your own satisfaction and his benefit. — P.D. James

If reading counted as a sport, I'd be a gold medalist. — Deb Caletti

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. — P.D. James

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James. — Donna Leon

You don't have to submerge. Just take a D.I.P. in Daily Incremental Progress. — Ryan Lilly

You won't get love from a child if you don't give love. — P.D. James

I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones. - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24) — P.C. Cast

If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk. — P.D. James

We should not, perhaps, assume that nature has a purpose. — P.D. James

The very old, he thought, make our past. Once they go it seems for a moment that neither it nor we have any real existence. — P.D. James

Delightful and sensitive boys have a habit of growing into insensitive and far-from-agreeable men. — P.D. James

A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined. — P.D. Ouspensky

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not. — E.P. Thompson

No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter. — P.D. James

Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine. — Daisy Donovan

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting. — P.D. James

The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics. — P.D. James

I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists. — P. J. O'Rourke

P.S. If any boy ever asks for my hand in marriage, show him #4. I'm in love. I'd marry a pirate for a ring like that. — Jillian Dodd

Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe. — P.D. James

G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric. — Erik Brynjolfsson

Every island to a child is a treasure island. — P.D. James

Read, read, & read a lot!
Write when ever you can,and never give up. — D.P. Hall

Henry James's definition of the purpose of a novel: To help the human heart to know itself. — P.D. James

You are not my mother. You are a scary Snort! — P.D. Eastman

I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with. — P. J. O'Rourke

The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say. — P. J. O'Rourke

(A murderer about their victim
He was an expert in vicarious death. I should like to have been there to see how he enjoyed the real thing. — P.D. James

A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't actually believe it. — P.D. James

Equality is a political theory not a practical policy ... — P.D. James

It is some centuries since we accepted that a woman has a soul. Is it not time that we accepted that she also has a mind? — P.D. James

A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development. — P.D. James

I was like a little boy showing off my toys, desperate to win approval. — P.D. James

S. P. T. to A. P. W. B. D. Dark — J.K. Rowling

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death? — P.D. James

Overall, a portfolio of the "good to great" companies looks like it would have underperformed the S&P 500. — Steven D. Levitt

If it weren't for the friends I have in books, I'd have no friends at all. — P.A. Hopkins

Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie. — P.D. Ouspensky

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So far he'd been there for three hours, hadn't gotten a thing done, was heading out for a free lunch, and was getting paid for it. Jobs were awesome. — J.P. Barnaby

If anyone ever told five-year-olds the truth about life, he thought, there'd be a rash of kindergarten suicides. — P.J. Tracy

Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports. — P.D. James

I tried to talk about it to Lily, to make her see that for once, I'd earned a feeling. [p. 174] — Sue Miller