Doe Quotes - Page 3

• 

  I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

  Rosa Parks

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

  203 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.10, Modern Library

  49 Copy quote

  Show source

• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

  102 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Taken, Mean

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Real, Opposites, Cameras

  4 Copy quote

• Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they tend to focus primarily on cathartic individual psychological personal prejudice without stressing the need for corresponding change in political commitment and action. A woman who attends an unlearning racism workshop and learns to acknowledge that she is racist is no less a threat than one who does not. Acknowledgment of racism is significant when it leads to transformation.

  Bell Hooks

  Stress, Commitment, White

  "Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center". Book by Bell Hooks, 1984.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• How could you miss it? Just the sound of her voice makes my chest feel tight, my face gets hot and my mouth goes dry whenever she's near. It's getting so bad, all I have to do is see her and I'm already thinking, 'What does she want? What can I do for her?' She's got some power over me, there's no question, and what else could it be? ~Razo

  Shannon Hale

  Thinking, Voice, Missing

  Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.74, A&C Black

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Love Is, Thinking, Uzbekistan

  6 Copy quote

• I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

  Oscar Wilde

  Jealous, I Am Jealous, Dies

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.32, Diversion Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does

  Sri Chinmoy

  Greatness, Guarantees, Never Forget

  5 Copy quote

• If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not God’s.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Revenge, Denial, Affliction

  64 Copy quote

• Lik the tree falling in the forest," says Ira. "Huh?" "You know, the old question - if a tree falls in a forest and no one's there to hear it, does it really make a sound?" Howie considers this. "Is it a pine forest, or oak?" "What's the difference?" "Oak is a much denser wood; it's more likely to be heard by someone on the freeway next to the forest where no one is.

  Neal Shusterman

  Fall, Differences, Tree

  4 Copy quote

• She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver.

  Angela Carter

  Moving, Eggs, Space

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Point Break, Soul

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?

  Virginia Woolf

  Men, Average, Civilization

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.33, Virginia Woolf

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while

  Don Marquis

  Beautiful, Fire, Long

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.253, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• They reached the carriage house. When she turned the knob, he got all critical again. “Why isn’t this door locked?” “It’s Parrish. There’s not much point.” “We have crime here, just as any other place does. Keep this door locked from now on.” “Like that’s going to stop you. All you’d have to do is give it one good kick, and – “ “Not from me, you ninny!” “I hate to be the one to break the bad news, but if they find my body, you’re the one with the biggest grudge.” “It’s impossible to hold a rational conversation with you.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Hate, Doors, Giving

  8 Copy quote

• This Medal of Honor does not belong to me. This medal belongs to every man and woman who has ever served their country. We were doing what we were trained to do. We were doing our job.

  Michael E. Thornton

  Country, Jobs, Men

  11 Copy quote

• While sight may deceive you, touch rarely does.

  Ann Aguirre

  Sight, May, Deceiving

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Wanderlust”, p.177, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• What a funny watch!’ she remarked. ‘It tells the day of the month, and doesn’t tell what o’clock it is!’ ‘Why should it?’ muttered the Hatter. ‘Does YOUR watch tell you what year it is?’ ‘Of course not,’ Alice replied very readily: ‘but that’s because it stays the same year for such a long time together.’ ‘Which is just the case with MINE,’ said the Hatter.

  Lewis Carroll

  Years, Long, Together

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Pages, Alphabet

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.190, Random House

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Ends, Wounds

  4 Copy quote

• Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor? Kolabati looked into his eyes. "He can if he lies to liars, cheats cheaters, steals from thieves, and limits his violence to those who are violent.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Liars, Lying, Eye

  F. Paul Wilson (2011). “The Tomb”, p.125, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Mistake, Trying, Virtue

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was anyway all a long time ago; the world, we know now, is as it is and not different; if there was ever a time when there were passages, doors, the borders open and many crossing, that time is not now. The world is older than it was. Even the weather isn’t as we remember it clearly once being; never lately does there come a summer day such as we remember, never clouds as white as that, never grass as odorous or shade as deep and full of promise as we remember they can be, as once upon a time they were.

  John Crowley

  Summer, Weather, White

  4 Copy quote