Dalgliesh Quotes

#1. The English, thought Kate, obviously regarded praying much as they did a necessary physical function, something best done in private. Dalgliesh apologized for interrupting her work: We're police officers and I'm afraid we're here on police business. Were you

P.D. James

#2. Dalgliesh was too experienced to assume that fear implied guilt; it was often the most innocent who were the most terrified.

P.D. James

#3. Dalgliesh reflected that one of the minor hazards of a murder investigation was the inordinate amount of caffeine he was expected to consume. But he wanted the interview to be as informal as possible, and food or drink always helped.

P.D. James

#4. But all was fair in love and war. If I had to fight dirty to keep him, then I'd be the dirtiest motherfucker there ever was. "So what's it going to be, Trent?" I pressed. "Are you going to protect my heart and the love it holds for you, or are you going to walk away?

Cambria Hebert

#5. Friends have ways of speaking without words.

Alice Dalgliesh

#6. Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

Orson Scott Card

#7. But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

Aristotle.

#8. Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.

Velimir Khlebnikov

#9. What you want is to rev up your metabolism so that you are burning fat and calories, not preserving fat and calories.

Kathy Freston

#10. Find your passion is in life, and do what you can to integrate that into your work life. That's not to say you won't have occasional frustrations in your job - that just goes with the territory - but at least you'll feel better inside, and that, over time, will mean more to you than you might think.

Edward Whitacre Jr.

#11. 'Little Miss Sunshine' was really important to me.

Paul Dano

#12. Let's focus on how we can take someone who is being poorly educated in an American public school and how they are poorly trained for a job, and put in place those opportunities for them to get that education, give their parents choice in education, make it real for them.

Michael Steele

#13. What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.

Alice Dalgliesh

#14. To be afraid and to be brave is the best kind of courage of all.

Alice Dalgliesh

#15. I would die for you if you want, but if you really want me to die I won't.

M.F. Moonzajer

#16. Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.

Gautama Buddha

#17. Friends have a way of speaking without words.

Alice Dalgliesh

#18. It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.

Margaret Atwood