Dorothy Thompson Quotes

In these ten years urban Russia having destroyed, exiled, or reduced to the most abject misery all representatives of that previous civilization, is without most bourgeoisie amenities.

Dorothy Thompson

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• If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Fear
  • Alone
  • Ego

• President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Security
  • Reputation

• During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Information
  • Discovery

• I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Me
  • Connection
  • Kid

• I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Women
  • Reason
  • Songs

• There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • World
  • Women
  • Feminist

• To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • True
  • Happy
  • Pain

• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Heart
  • House

• Comic-Con is really cool. It's different. I like to people-watch. I like to see the costumes.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Different
  • Cool

• A will finds a way.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Way
  • Will
  • Motivational

• We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Good
  • Family
  • You

• There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Friends
  • Laugh
  • Fair

• Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Feel
  • Contact

• We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don't need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Children
  • Money
  • High

• I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with freedom and still mix up the pace, mix up the spins and everything like that. That's what I want to be doing, because you get into that very one-dimensional kind of tennis if you don't work on slicing and coming into the net.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can feel magical. I cease to be, my desk and computer ceases to be, and I am my character in his world. Psychologists call this a 'flow state,' and it's better than publication, money, awards, fame.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • World
  • Real
  • Money

• I actually wanted to be a zookeeper when I was 5.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Wanted
  • Actually

• I don't want my life to be about a house and a car.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Life
  • House
  • Car

• Maybe I should have taken a few chances. That's not to say I want to go make 'Star Wars', but I need to shift my career into the studio world. That's where my head was at when I thought of the original plot.

  

  Edward Burns
  • World
  • Career
  • Taken

• Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Human Nature

• You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and dimension all its own.

  

  Chaim Potok
  • Quality
  • Silence

• Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for 'doing the best' for his children?

  

  Eva Figes
  • Children
  • Father
  • Sin

• Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Truth
  • Society

• In these ten years urban Russia having destroyed, exiled, or reduced to the most abject misery all representatives of that previous civilization, is without most bourgeoisie amenities.

  

  Dorothy Thompson