Doris Lessing Quotes

What is so painful about that time is that nothing was disastrous. It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From time to time the emotional lightning flashed and showed a landscape of private misery, and then - we went on dancing.

Doris Lessing

Quotes to Explore

There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.

Vaughn Monroe
- People
- Great
- Running
Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
- World
- Science
- Where
If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

Lance Armstrong
- Never
- Bike
- Falling
Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.

Balaji Srinivasan
- Long
- Success
- Technology
Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

Barack Obama
- Family
- Remember
- American
I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.

J. C. Chandor
- Life
- Different
- Why