Dorothy Day Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.
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It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I am myself of a mixed background.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Stay focused on the mission.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
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There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.
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The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you'll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don't use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.
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Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.
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Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
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The scientific consensus is that climate change is real, urgent, and caused by humans. This science should be both supported and understood by anyone who hopes to lead NASA, one of our nation's top science agencies.
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A wonderful book . . . Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving.
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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I trained myself to not get my hopes up, because there were so many times in the room where you'd be like, 'This feels amazing, this is a hit!' And it never saw the light of day.
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Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
