Dorothea Dix Quotes

I have had so much at heart. Defeated, not conquered; disappointed, not discouraged. I have but to be more energetic and more faithful in the difficult and painful vocation to which my life is devoted.

Dorothea Dix

• Life
• Heart
• Disappointed
• Discouraged
• Conquered
• Energetic

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• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • You
  • Taken
  • Care

• I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Energy
  • Angry
  • Used

• O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Book
  • Day
  • Either

• Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Believe
  • Together
  • Earth

• I will never let money from anyone affect what I do.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Money
  • Never
  • Will

• The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Process

• The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Free
  • Feeling
  • Light

• It is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • True
  • Political
  • Progress

• After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal (sic) which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Work
  • Single

• Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?Is it possible that a theory of man is nothing more nor less than a theory of the speaking creatures?

  

  Walker Percy
  • Why
  • Nature

• Hauer looks for laws. Good. But he looks for them where he will not find them.

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Good

• Besides what have poets, in any case, to do with sin? They must dance before the Ark of the Covenant or die! But what am I trying to say?

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Trying
  • Die
  • Dance

• I slept with a woman on the ship, and afterwards I was thinking, 'Am I gaaaay? Am I straaaaight?' And then I realized: I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Thinking

• Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Age

• Il n'est pas difficile de nourrir des pensées admirables lorsque les étoiles sont présentes.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar

• The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Age

• I was always good at being observationally funny - like, contributing something funny to the conversation.

  

  Jon Hamm
  • Good
  • Funny

• By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

  

  John Cassavetes
  • Life
  • Age

• There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Heart
  • Lost
  • Eye

• Life is all about balance, and there are certain times of the year - birthday, anniversary, holidays - that are meant to be enjoyed without guilt. That being said, Thanksgiving is a meal - it's not a Thanksgiving day, and it's not a Thanksgiving week.

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • Life
  • Balance
  • Holidays

• I have had so much at heart. Defeated, not conquered; disappointed, not discouraged. I have but to be more energetic and more faithful in the difficult and painful vocation to which my life is devoted.

  

  Dorothea Dix
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Disappointed