Doris Lessing Quotes

The thing is, I haven't changed at all.

Doris Lessing

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• We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Passion

• I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Nothing
  • More
  • Anger

• I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • Done
  • Progress

• In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • You
  • Fighting
  • Fighter

• Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • World
  • Successful
  • Miracle

• A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Things

• I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I am a meek, meek shopper.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Aggressive
  • Aspire
  • Shopper

• We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Control
  • Responsibility
  • Philosophy

• I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Day
  • Joy
  • Thought

• In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Chemistry
  • Carbon
  • Organic

• Say yes to everything.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Everything
  • Say
  • Yes

• I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Up
  • Why
  • America

• I voted yes for ANWR, and I would support those in other places, environmentally sound.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Support
  • Sound
  • Places

• Twitter was around communication and visualizing what was happening in the world in real-time. Square was allowing everyone to accept the form of payment people have in their pocket today, which is a credit card.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • School
  • New
  • New York

• Myth. Rape is a manifestation of male political and economic power. Fact. Any given black man is three times as likely to be reported a rapist as a white man. Do blacks suddenly have more political and economic power? Maybe rape does not derive from power, but rather from powerlessness.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Power
  • Political
  • Black

• Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. A cynical but perhaps fair assessment

  

  Mike Ferguson
  • Events
  • Cynical
  • Fairs

• Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • People
  • Think
  • Understand

• Obsession with sensual pleasures, holding firmly to sensual pleasures that khattiyas fight with khattiyas, brahmins with brahmins, and householders with householders.” “Why is it, Master Kaccāna, that ascetics fight with ascetics?” “It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Fight
  • Obsession
  • Pleasures

• Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Human Existence
  • Tense
  • Completed

• As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not function superbly... yes, beauty matters. Boy, does it matter. It is not surface, it is not an extra, it is the thing itself.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Style
  • Boys
  • Extras

• The thing is, I haven't changed at all.

  

  Doris Lessing