Dorothy Day Quotes

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Men
  • Single
  • Brave

• There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Day
  • Independent
  • Push

• A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Good
  • Why

• Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Want
  • Unique
  • Athlete

• It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

  

  Tacitus
  • Difficult
  • Pleasure
  • Bear

• Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Man
  • Education
  • Devil

• I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Computers
  • Cursed

• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Evil

• The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Child

• My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Different
  • Down

• When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Death

• Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Want
  • Fear
  • Emotions

• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Business
  • Political
  • Drunk

• What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • Me
  • Military

• People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Years
  • Hero
  • Many

• The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Authority

• The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Sex

• I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for 'Archie' to read for a boy... I've had drivers come to pick me up in England looking for a blond, blue-eyed Scottish boy.

  

  Archie Panjabi
  • Up
  • Waiting
  • Boy

• Fear not, then, thou child infirm, There's no god dare wrong a worm.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Fear

• Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Fear
  • Reason
  • Season

• Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • Fear