Dorothy Day Quotes
I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
Quotes to Explore
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People believe what they want to believe.
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I am passionate about human rights.
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Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
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I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.
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If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!
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People tend to think they know you when you come into their televisions every week. They think you are different than who you are. Don't believe everything you hear.
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Everyone and his Big Brother wants to log your browsing habits, the better to build a profile of who you are and how you live your life - online and off. Search engine companies offer a benefit in return: more relevant search results. The more they know about you, the better they can tailor information to your needs.
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I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
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As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a clear conscience.
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Don't assume that because everyone believes a thing, that it is right or wrong. Reason things out for yourself. Work to get answers on your own. Understand why you believe things.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
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With cooking, there's always the tangible and the intangible: that which is in the domain of sentiment, of the individual.
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I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.
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I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.
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I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
