Doris Lessing Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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The world is always in movement.
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I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.
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I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experience before has been that at least in the evening, you kind of take a deep breath and look around where you are and have some downtime.
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Is life less thrilling if your neighbors are rational, if they don’t bomb your power stations whenever they feel you need to be admonished? Is it less rousing if they don’t rattle your windows and nerves with indiscriminate sonic booms just because they can?
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Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.
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I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.
