Dorothy Day Quotes

First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.

Dorothy Day

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• Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Life
  • Real
  • May

• I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Struggle
  • Tongue
  • Impatient

• I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Skills

• I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • You

• The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Work
  • Money
  • Love

• This rap game is just WWF; everybody wants points off somebody else.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Game
  • Rap
  • Just

• Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Mind
  • Like
  • Nothing

• The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Good
  • Important
  • She

• We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • People
  • Thought
  • Years

• My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Alone
  • Struggle
  • Leaving

• When the element of conversion with reference to a standard is eliminated from life, what remains is the irresponsible quest for thrills.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Life

• Against this current conception of religion the prophets insisted on a right life as the true worship of God. Morality to them was not merely a prerequisite of effective ceremonial worship. They brushed sacrificial ritual aside altogether as trifling compared with righteousness, nay, as a harmful substitute and a hindrance for ethical religion.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Life
  • God
  • True

• The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the artist today perfects the means suited to his particular work.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Work
  • Today

• ‘I know what is love. Love is man and woman in bed.’

  

  Anthony Burgess

• Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Up
  • Attitude
  • Ignorance

• I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • Good
  • Fun

• I was raised by maternal grandparents who were born in 1890 and 1899, respectively. They were British subjects; George V was the cousin of the tsar. The Romanovs were very real in their household.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Real
  • Grandparents
  • Cousin

• If you game Facebook and Google in the right way, then you can achieve a mass audience.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Game

• In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.

  

  Bjork
  • Music
  • House
  • Listening

• I like it, I love it, I want some more of it.I try so hard, I can't rise above it.Don't know what it is 'bout that little gal's lovin', but I like it, I love it, I want some more of it.

  

  Tim McGraw

• I get very into my sports.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • Sports

• Only, as long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value.

  

  S. S. Van Dine
  • Long
  • May
  • Value

• A man who keeps asking you to trust him is always hiding something.

  

  Adrian Goldsworthy
  • Trust
  • Asking
  • Hiding

• First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.

  

  Dorothy Day