Doris Lessing Quotes

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

Doris Lessing

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• If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Great
  • Black

• Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Humanity
  • Poverty

• A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Technology
  • Dark
  • Progress

• I have known I was destined to live in Goa the moment I first stepped foot on the Panjim docks from the ferry from Mumbai, when I was 18.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Live
  • Moment
  • First

• I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Think
  • Player
  • Confidence

• I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

  

  Beck
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Judgment

• Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Power
  • Envy
  • Jealousy

• My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Father
  • Myself

• It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Brain

• I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Thought
  • Weird
  • Name

• I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Best
  • Road
  • Messy

• Humor is a part of spirituality.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Humor
  • Part
  • Spirituality

• 'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Film
  • WIld
  • Throwback

• The United States needs to hold China accountable for its facilitation of North Korea's illicit weapons program instead of rewarding Beijing for complacency.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Program
  • China
  • Complacency

• The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Science
  • Know
  • Influence

• I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Long
  • Father
  • Hate

• Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Men
  • Best
  • Gay

• I'm pretty straightforward as a performer, but I do have a bit of a diva in me.

  

  Corin Tucker
  • Pretty

• As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.

  

  James Boswell
  • Country
  • Church
  • King

• As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • People
  • Society
  • Own

• I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.

  

  Janis Ian
  • People
  • Real
  • Song

• When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise we are going to live in a society with a single model, the Anglo-American model.

  

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin
  • Live
  • American
  • Today

• Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Society