Doris Lessing Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
-
The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
-
Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
-
The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
-
I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
-
I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
-
The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
-
I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
-
Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
-
Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
-
I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
-
There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
-
When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
-
Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
-
I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
-
Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
-
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
-
When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
-
For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere.
-
God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philanthropy is simply the impulse to save ourselves an uncomfortable feeling. The Spirit of God alters all that. As saints our attitude towards giving is that we give for Jesus Christ's sake, and from no other motive.
-
You might also see why it seemed a bit odd, to Radchaai ears, to hear someone who believed gravity wells were the land of the dead call people superstitious for worshiping a lizard.
-
Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.
-
It will become clear in the following chapters that Jesus was not originally considered to be God in any sense at all, and that he eventually became divine for his followers in some sense before he came to be thought of as equal with God Almighty in an absolute sense. But the point I stress is that this was, in fact, a development.
-
God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't.
