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

• 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

• I don't know what the facts are but somebody's certainly going to sit down with him and find out what he knows that they may not know, and make sure he knows what they know that he may not know, and that's a good thing.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • Good
  • May

• There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the idea that more people might connect with music. That infuriates me more than I can say.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • People
  • Music
  • Cancer

• And I know without being told that she killed herself. And I totally understand why.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Understand
  • Killed

• Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

  

  John Dewey
  • Beautiful
  • Words
  • Color

• I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • World
  • Writing
  • Weight

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

  

  Doris Lessing