Dorofeeva Quotes & Sayings

We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us. — Anthony Trollope

As long as you can breathe, you can begin to dream. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation and a touch of megalomania can be comforting around five on a November afternoon when you haven't seen anybody all day. — Angela Carter

No art comes from the conscious mind. — Steve Martin

I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of. — Jonny Lang

NBC has suspended Brian Williams for six months without pay. Williams said he's not worried because soon his veterans benefits will kick in. — Conan O'Brien

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man. — Joseph Joubert

I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this. — Lester Bangs

Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by. — Virginia Woolf

We don't have to experience shame to be paralyzed by it - the fear of being perceived as unworthy is enough to force us to silence our stories. — Brene Brown

Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything. — Elia Kazan

Because love ripped you apart and left you there to reassemble the pieces of yourself. — Melissa Brayden

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It's a modern Republican thing. — Paul Krugman

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth. Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, to absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex. — Charlotte Bronte