Clarissa Dovey Quotes & Sayings

when you lose your sails, row. — Karen White

Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,
these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy. — Catharine Sedgwick

[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity. — George Orwell

I really love Norah Jones. — Caroline Manzo

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. — Martin Luther

My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television. — Alice Walker

Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue. — Margaret Of Valois

When he first returned to the Badlands in the summer of 1884, the austere landscape seemed to mirror his melancholy. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

I don't pay attention. I don't read stuff or message boards because you definitely get affected. You can read a hundred great comments, amazing comments, and have one bad one and that is all you can focus on and it wrecks your day. It says something about negativity and how it draws us somehow. — Joan Jett

I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me. — Janis Joplin

The world is an ugly stew, she thought.
It's so ugly I can't stand it. — Markus Zusak

To know that you do not know is the best.
To think you know when you do not is a disease.
Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it. — Lao-Tzu

Fiction books give the reader a chance to step away from their own reality and into the shoes of the characters, and they show you a world that isn't the one you already know. And sometimes the story's not so different from your own, and it lets you get closer to your own feelings. — Shin Towada

It is almost a cliche to speak of the professed atheist who cries out for help to God when he is in mortal danger. The profession of atheism is done by the conscious mind, but the subconscious still believes in God. — Serge Kahili King