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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 99fa465 | If you want to pray to Allah for better means of subsistence, then first give something in charity | Ali | ||
| 43aaa39 | When someone is sure of the returns, then he shows generosity. | Ali | ||
| f9f9f4b | If you stood apart long enough, weren't you in danger of stifling, perhaps even losing, that quickening spirit which the priests here would call the soul? | P.D. James | ||
| 60938f0 | The young seldom lie convincingly. They haven't had time to practise like the rest of us. | P.D. James | ||
| 73abb83 | But he did grievously fear old age, mortal illness and disablement. He dreaded the loss of independence, the indignities of senility, the yielding up of privacy, the abomination of pain, the glimpses of patient compassion in the faces of friends who knew that their indulgences would not be claimed for long. | P.D. James | ||
| 576a7f9 | had found it difficult to sleep since my husband had been killed, and now I lay rigid under the canopy of the four-poster re-living the extraordinary day, piecing together the anomalies, the small incidents, the clues, to form a satisfying pattern, trying to impose order on disorder. I think that is what I've been wanting to do all my life. It was that night at Stutleigh which decided my whole | P.D. James | ||
| d193a53 | Fear is the devil to hide. | P.D. James | ||
| 5698392 | A court of law is not constituted to establish the truth. | P.D. James | ||
| f06024e | Theo awoke to a weight of vague unease, not heavy enough to be called anxiety, but a mild unfocused depression, like the last tatters of an unremembered but disagreeable dream. | P.D. James | ||
| 3dd1bb9 | I have no scenery to help me and no words are written for me to speak. There is no curtain. But out of the vivid dream of somebody else's life I have to create an atmosphere--for that is advocacy. | P.D. James | ||
| 67c453f | She strutted into the room, armour-plated in white linen, belligerent as a battleship. The bib of her apron, starched rigid as a board, curved against a formidable bosom on which she wore her nursing badges like medals of war. | P.D. James | ||
| 61fc4aa |
Recuerdas aquella frase del Eclesiastes en que se afirma que es mejor un perro vivo que un leon muerto? Langton murmuro: --< |
P.D. James | ||
| 4e99fdf | Que importa lo que fue o lo que sera? Todo comienza y acaba en mi. | P.D. James | ||
| 813f47f | pedimented doors to right and left, an oil painting of the | P.D. James | ||
| bb3db8f | I can still picture the two sisters sitting together on the terrace, well wrapped up against the chill, one with her terminal cancer, the other with her cardiac asthma and arthritis, envy and resentment forgotten as they faced the great equalizer of death. | p.d. james | ||
| c979d04 | Your concern would have more weight with us if you were sitting -- as you could be sitting -- on this side of the table. | roles | P.D. James | |
| a47d5cc | Has it ever occurred to you that a woman, when she is powerful, is more powerful than a man?" "Powerful in a different way, perhaps." Laud said: "It's a power partly based on fear. Perhaps the fear is atavistic, memories of babyhood. Women change the nappy, give the breast or withhold it." Langton said with a faint smile: "Not now, apparently. Fathers change nappies and it's usually a bottle." "But I'm right, Hubert, about power and fear. I.. | P.D. James | ||
| 99b9e08 | dresses, some of the girls in clothes which | P.D. James | ||
| 8341604 | There are facts. There are suppositions. There are beliefs. Learn to keep them separate, Sergeant. All men die. Fact. Death may not be the end. Supposition. There's pie in the sky when you die. Belief. | P.D. James | ||
| a1689b4 | It was easy to understand how the local legends had grown that sometimes, on an autumn night, once could hear the muffled beat of horses' hoofs as smugglers brought their kegs and bales from Sizewell Gap to hide them in the marshes or carry them inland across the desolate Westleton heathlands. Easy, too, on such a night to hear from the sea the faint bells of long-drowned churches, St. Leonard's, St. John's, St. Peter's and All Saints clang.. | drowning-girls | P.D. James | |
| db121db | A number of his friends whose wilfully overburdened lives inhibited the enjoyment of all but necessary pleasures somehow found time to take afternoon tea with the Ackroyds in their neat Edwardian villa in Swiss Cottage with its comfortable sitting-room and atmosphere of timeless indulgence. | P.D. James | ||
| dbea225 | Beauty is intellectually confusing; it sabotages common sense. | common-sense | P.D. James | |
| 08d96d8 | Delightful and sensitive boys have a habit of growing into insensitive and far-from-agreeable men. | P.D. James | ||
| 73e0600 | I didn't love her but I did steal for her. I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love. | P.D. James | ||
| 693b28a | equality is a political theory not a practical policy. . . | P.D. James | ||
| 04aefe5 | The attempt to analyse was, of course, an attempt at exorcism. | P.D. James | ||
| 9eb9ae7 | That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be. | P.D. James | ||
| d2737d9 | Darcy took the view that if family amity required him to meet people with whom he had little in common, it were best done at their expense not his. | P.D. James | ||
| 52981c1 | The emotion he felt towards her was as mysterious as it was irrational. He needed to understand it, to define its nature, to analyse what he knew was beyond analysis. But some things now he did know, and perhaps they were all he needed to know. He wished her only good. He would put her good before his own. He could no longer be separate himself from her. He would die for her life. | P.D. James | ||
| 7ca4ff1 | Love. Is that so very important? You were a teacher, you ought to know. Is it?" "It's vital. If a child has it for the first ten years, hardly anything else matters. If he hasn't, then nothing does." | P.D. James | ||
| 90ba355 | We should not, perhaps, assume that nature has a purpose. | P.D. James | ||
| 04e6fef | We need, all of us, to be in control of our lives, and we shrink them until they're small and mean enough so that we feel in control. | P.D. James | ||
| c6d5927 | This planet is doomed anyway. Eventually the sun will explode or cool and one small insignificant particle of the universe will disappear with only a tremble. | P.D. James | ||
| 3bce246 | Even as a child, I had a sense that I was two people; the one who experienced the trauma, the pain, the happiness, and the other who stood aside and watched with a disinterested ironic eye. | perspective-on-life | P.D. James | |
| 5d96bbb | They had lived to see their simple patriotism derided, their morality despised, their savings devalued. They caused no trouble. Millions of pounds of public money wasn't regularly siphoned into their neighbourhoods in the hope of bribing, cajoling or coercing them into civic virtue. If they protested that their cities had become alien, their children taught in overcrowded schools where 90 per cent of the children spoke no English, they were.. | P.D. James | ||
| b21b74c | I love you, Guy, and I think I shall go on loving you, but I'm not in love. I've had that and it was a torment, a humiliation and a warning. So now I'm settling for a quiet life with someone I respect and am very fond of and want to spend my life with. | P.D. James | ||
| bd7df09 | I'll nail you when I can finally prove who supplies you with cyanide. And then P.D. James would send Adam Daigliesh into finding another mystery killer who's a cop. I'd suggest her a title... I'd suggest 'Wole the Ripper!' Then Ms Cornwell would do an American adaptation of your story. She'd have no choice than to betray her Marino character by making him the mystery killer. But I guess she'd find difficulty in doing that because Marino isn.. | S. A. David | ||
| 2387950 | physiognomy. | P.D. James | ||
| b845939 | impresionante | P.D. James | ||
| 22286fa | o'clock | P.D. James | ||
| 37d705e | I had to make a moral decision. 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, don't you think? | P.D. James | ||
| e40f642 | SOYINKA WON THE NOBEL PRIZE ACHEBE, LITERARY COMMANDER P.D. JAMES, WE LOVE HER AGATHA CHRISTIE, QUEEN OF CRIME | S. A. David | ||
| ec32ddc | Pleasure need not be less keen because there will be centuries of springs to come, their blossom unseen by human eyes, the walls will crumble, the trees die and rot, the gardens revert to weeds and grass, because all beauty will outlive the human intelligence which records, enjoys and celebrates it. | P.D. James | ||
| d565c89 | No hay un arte que descubra en un rostro la construccion de un alma. Fue un caballero en quien depositamos la mas absoluta confianza.>> | P.D. James |