Grandmothers Doris Lessing Quotes & Sayings

Everyone in my family always spares one another's feelings. It leaves little room for honesty. — Sara Farizan

To grasp the essence of chirality, it is instructive to withdraw for a moment from the familiar three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional one, into a plane, and enquire what chirality means there. — Vladimir Prelog

As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs. — John Gray

Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before the apple ever fell on Newton's head. But once it did, and he understood it, then we as a society were free to harness this principle to create, among other things, airline flight. — Andy Andrews

Everything changes once you start trying to market the film. Part of you feels like everything is slipping away from you. For me, I don't want people going to the theater thinking it's going to be a laugh-a-minute comedy, like a Will Ferrell film or something. Because it's not. — Taika Waititi

Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason. — Miguel De Cervantes

In Jesus' Name eternal grace is sovereign in me and I am sovereign in life now — Cessza Gumede

Zen is completely free from the fetters of old dogmas, dead creeds, and conventions of stereotyped past, that check the development of a religious faith and prevent the discovery of a new truth. Zen needs no Inquisition. It never compelled nor will compel the compromise of a Galileo or a Descartes. No excommunication of a Spinoza or the burning of a Bruno is possible for Zen. — Kaiten Nukariya

My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh. — Rainey Qualley

Suddenly I shouted into the night air. 'Yes, yes, yes, it is true!
And now the world had some tension in it; now it twanged and vibrated with meaning and possibility! 'Yes, yes, fucking yes! — Hanif Kureishi

I was wrong to vote for this war. Unfortunately, I'll have to live with that forever. And the lesson I learned from it is to put more faith in my own judgment. — John Edwards

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time. — Zoe Saldana

Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities. — Andrew Carnegie

I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm going to stop.' — Teri Hatcher

They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end. — Lois McMaster Bujold