Dorothy Canfield Fisher Quotes

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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• We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Give
  • Take
  • Noble

• The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • People
  • True
  • Risk

• I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Pretty
  • Funny
  • Dad

• I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.

  

  E. L. James
  • High
  • Storytelling
  • Bar

• Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Important

• I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Bull
  • Rider

• I don't think I have a black-hat image.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Think
  • Black
  • Image

• It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Religion

• Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Live
  • Done
  • Happy

• I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Small

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Giving
  • Beauty

• If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • People
  • Done
  • Happy

• Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Community
  • Respect

• One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Words
  • Funny

• You are a spirit, then,you Man, and not a Manat all.You are a spirit and you dwellwithin the guts of mortal beast.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard

• My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

  

  Jean M. Auel
  • Science
  • Small

• There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • America
  • Military
  • Latin

• There are three processes every company has to have: Somehow you've got to set strategies; you've got to have a budget, so you need an annual operating plan; and somehow you've got to do succession and people planning.

  

  Noel Tichy
  • Company
  • Plan
  • Strategies

• Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

  

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher
  • Freedom
  • Fighting