Dorothy Day Quotes
Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.
Quotes to Explore
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.
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Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
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I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
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I love working in New York.
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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While Texas women have the right to safe, legal abortion, in reality there are already very few facilities in Texas to provide this essential care. In 2008, 92 percent of Texas counties had no abortion provider.
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I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
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I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV.
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I'm more comfortable performing in front of 50,000 people than five people - it's easier. When there's that many people, I feel like I'm alone. When I perform in front of only a few people, it's scary.
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Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.
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One of the pleasures of writing novels is that my characters usually do something. But in real life we often stay locked in a situation that we know is painful or wrong.
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Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.
