Doris Lessing Quotes

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

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• They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Good
  • Act

• I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Up
  • Children
  • Parents

• I'm a proud family man.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Family
  • Man
  • Proud

• One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Up
  • Memories
  • Internet

• The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Way
  • Change
  • Proactive

• Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • Want
  • Scared

• Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • Words

• My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Religion
  • Mental Illness

• There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Idea
  • Place
  • Heroic

• The truth is, I'm not body confident.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Truth
  • Body
  • Truth Is

• O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Me

• I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.

  

  Imelda May
  • Bad
  • Movies
  • Loved

• I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mean
  • Traditions
  • Cultural

• When you look at Google, its job is to find you the perfect web page. There are a lot of cases when you want to know something and a list of websites isn't ideal.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Job
  • Want
  • Perfect

• Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Together
  • Fear
  • Sorrow

• Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Contradict

• Happy trails to you, until we meet again.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Happy
  • You
  • Meet

• I love all sports! I'm always impressed by athletes. I also love watching the Olympic Games. In high school, I played co-ed soccer and basketball. I really enjoyed both of those sports, but I have to admit basketball wasn't my calling.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • School
  • Watching
  • Calling

• London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • World
  • Diversity
  • London

• When I was younger, I wanted to own a circus and create this bizarre revue that went from town to town. I suppose, in a way, I got my wish because when you're working on a film, you're in a traveling circus.

  

  Neil Burger
  • Wish

• I had a really hard time after 9/11. I was basically living across the street from the World Trade Center, and a big chunk of debris fell on top of my building, and the roof caved in. I thought I was going to die. Really. I'd never thought that before, but on that day I sat there and thought 'I cannot believe it's going to end this way.'

  

  Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • Time
  • World
  • Believe

• On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Values
  • Listen
  • Talk

• The reason I loved working at Boeing was because I loved the idea of air travel as a way of bringing people and cultures together - because when we come together as people and cultures, we realize that we are not that different after all, and when we realize that we are not that different after all, the world becomes a better place.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

  

  Doris Lessing