Dorothy Leigh Sayers Quotes
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
Quotes to Explore
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes!
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If you have decisions taken from time to time at the level of the executives, which gives the impression of being discriminatory, if you are not open when government is functioning, then obviously people will make allegations.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?
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We have met the enemy and he is us.
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I'm on this road for the rest of my life.
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But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn’t it? – and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.
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I don't sound like other people. My voice isn't as loud and can't do certain things athletically.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.
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Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
