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A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.


Dorothy L. Sayers

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.
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PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Give a human being power, and he or she will think that he or she can control the whole world! This ...
PHILIP T. M. To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.
BILL O'REILLY Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other...
JOHN STUART MILL A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone ...
ALAN LOY MCGINNIS She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorot...
KAZUO ISHIGURO If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a ...
DILIP KUMAR Donald Trump performs consistently better in online polling, where a human being is not talking to a...
KELLYANNE CONWAY To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
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NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW The moment WE realize our mistakes, our sins, our selfishness, the trouble we gave others, the pain ...
NEHA KOTHARI Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of st...
ABHIJIT NASKAR In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. T...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW If you become a nuisance ... they're not going to like you.
SCOTT ADAMS I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the...
MILAN KUNDERA Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO It's nice to have things to look forward to.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Life is a Long Journey between Human Being and Being Human. Let's take at least one step
each d...
DRISHTI BABLANI I tend not to reread books, because there's always something new to discover, but Dorothy Sayers...
LAURA ANNE GILMAN A human must be in a place where he or she may lawfully be.
LYN MURPHY [The] most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really ...
GEORGE STEINER The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The c...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Love, what you DO, Respect, who DOES for you, Appreciate, who DOES for others, Salute, who DOES for ...
PRITISH PATTANAIK As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
PLAUTUS There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice...
DALAI LAMA Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must b...
JONES VERY To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD People who are achievers were once dreamers; but not all dreamers eventually become achievers. Befor...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
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TEKOA MANNING In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. " A House Like a Lotus
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SIMI GREWAL Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal oppor...
JOHN FISCHER The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal oppor...
JOHN FISCHER it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not e...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't want to be somebody's crush.if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY However, a broker could not misrepresent the facts. If a broker is asked and he or she has knowledge...
GEORGE WEBER You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES The radical, committed to human liberation, does not become the prisoner of a 'circle of certainty' ...
PAULO FREIRE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. It's time now to rent a car, roll down the windows and prepare for your first big thrill: the freewa...
JOHN WATERS

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If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Very dangerous things, theories.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Trouble shared is trouble halved.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach peo...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS (One character on another:)

"Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same for...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- o...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the who...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It is the sin that believes in nothing,
cares for nothing,
seeks to know nothing,
interfere...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going i...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they ge...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS As I grow older and older
And totter towards the tomb,
I find I care less and less
Who goes...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men whe...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS [O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer sh...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave '...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his j...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Do you know how to pick a lock?"
"Not in the least, I'm afraid."
"I often wonder what we g...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles. ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS They cultivated normality till it stood out of them all over in knobs, like the muscles upon profess...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a less...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There's something hypnotic about the word tea.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.

"Well...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I do know the worst sin--perhaps the only sin--passion can commit, is to be joyless.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always somethin...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the charact...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people'...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling bac...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Placetne, magistra?"

"Placet.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS He was being about as protective as a can-opener.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of hi...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the t...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to ma...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"

"So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am se...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by a...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to wor...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are bot...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in not...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS [W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insistin...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man)...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any o...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Remorse is eating his soul like a caterpillar in a cabbage.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: Hard it is, very hard, To travel up the slow and st...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearm...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433 Contempt of material things as such is, in fa...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims and His reputation as a political firebrand...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Few things are more striking than the change which has taken place during my own lifetime in the att...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrs...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS "The Kingdom of Heaven", said the Lord Christ, "is among you." But what, precisely, is the Kingdom o...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Feast of Thomas the Apostle Those who make it a reproach to Christianity that it taught no new mo...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Continuing a short series on sin: Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The first thing a principle does is kill somebody
DOROTHY L. SAYERS And by the way, my dear,' he said, 'you might just mention to Mrs. Sutton that if she must read the ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross. They had neve...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Now, it is frequently asserted that, with women, the job does not come first. What (people cry) are ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Perhaps we are not following Christ all the way or in the right spirit. We are likely, for example, ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same for...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I always have a quotation for everything -- it saves original thinking.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I love you- I am at rest with you- I have come home.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenth...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and lea...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who make some other person their job . . . are dangerous.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in noth...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The rest were nondescript, as yet undifferentiated—yet nondescripts, thought Harriet, were the mos...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Why do you want a letter from me? Why don't you take the trouble to find out for yourselves what Chr...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much las...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and wha...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I love you - I am at rest with you- I have come home.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same for...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Work is not primarily a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is or it should be...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The two men sat silent for a little, and then Lord Peter said:

"D'you like your job?" DOROTHY L. SAYERS Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS You may say you won’t interfere with another person’s soul, but you do—merely by existing. The...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Harriet had long ago discovered that one could not like people any the better, merely because they w...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I always said the professional advocate was the most amoral person on the face of the earth. I'm cer...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS [On marriage and permanent attachment:]

Well, well -- the prizes all go to the women who ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It's very good of you--"

"No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I d...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS [T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that th...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting t...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS How should anything be sacred to an advertiser?" demanded Ingleby, helping himself to four lumps of ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There, eastward, within a stone’s throw, stood the twin towers of All Souls, fantastic, unreal as ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The mellow bells, soaring and singing in tower and steeple, told of time's flight through an eternit...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The people who are most discouraged and made despondent by the barbarity and stupidity of human beha...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain;
If we perish in the seeking, why, ho...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, c...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of c...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Parker looked distressed. He had confidence in Wimsey's judgment, and, in spite of his own interior ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Experience has taught me," said Peter (...) "that no situation finds Bunter unprepared. That he shou...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS That was the second time within five minutes that he had warned her off his private ground. His mood...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The boat rocked perilously as they heaved and tore at the clinging weeds, razor-sharp and strong as ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Peter—do please be happy. I mean, you’ve always been the comfortable sort of person that nothing...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I say--I've thought of a good plot for a detective story."
"Really?"
"Top--hole. You know,...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS My idea is that Miss Vane didn't do it," said Wimsey. "I dare say that's an idea which has already o...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I love Brian Piccolo, and I'd like all of you to love him. When you hit your knees to pray tonight, ...
GALE SAYERS I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ...
GALE SAYERS There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reas...
GALE SAYERS Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
GALE SAYERS We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There ar...
GALE SAYERS Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
GALE SAYERS I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
GALE SAYERS What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of t...
GALE SAYERS We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
GALE SAYERS Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Ira...
GALE SAYERS I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remem...
GALE SAYERS Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will...
GALE SAYERS There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
GALE SAYERS When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.
GALE SAYERS I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
GALE SAYERS Transfer of title has been completed, the Island corridor is now Island-owned and it's connecting co...
JUDITH SAYERS Half these people out here who are getting autographs are getting it for somebody else -- a dealer o...
GALE SAYERS He says he won't sign anything because he knows what they're doing with the stuff, and I don't disag...
GALE SAYERS Tomorrow, you might see a passing shower around the midday.
MATT SAYERS I'm 62 years old. You can't tell me that some little kid coming up to me -- he doesn't know me. Thes...
GALE SAYERS Both Ray and I are racing fans. Also, we both have the same goals and desire to succeed, to win and ...
GALE SAYERS There's no way I would have made the Hall of Fame or set any of the records I did by myself. No matt...
GALE SAYERS It's all about possibilities. Now that we're re-connected, it also gives us an incentive to build co...
JUDITH SAYERS There is a great deal of potential, but there are also a few challenges for any potential operator. ...
JUDITH SAYERS There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but th...
JUDITH SAYERS The next five years will be very exciting. We have a lot of vibrant people in the neighborhood wanti...
JENNIFER SAYERS There's been a fabulous resurgence of people fixing up homes. The house values are steadily increasi...
JENNIFER SAYERS Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old an...
DOROTHY THOMPSON I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is t...
DOROTHY DIX Think for yourselves for a change. You've been pedlars: go and be merchants. You've been mercenaries...
DOROTHY DUNNETT My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!
DOROTHY KILGALLEN That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it...
DOROTHY PARKER You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.
DOROTHY DIX You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.
DOROTHY PARKER It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that mak...
DOROTHY DIX Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
DOROTHY PARKER The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!
DOROTHY DAY I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKER Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basi...
DOROTHY RIERA The friends I made have slipped and strayed.
And who's the one that cares
A trifling lot and...
DOROTHY PARKER Work is the province of cattle.
DOROTHY PARKER I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to th...
DOROTHY HAMILL I used to have terrible tantrums. I was temperamental when I was younger. Actually, what I needed wa...
DOROTHY HAMILL Once when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad-
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And ...
DOROTHY PARKER Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts a...
DOROTHY PARKER If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it'...
DOROTHY PARKER This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
DOROTHY PARKER Oh, it is sure as it is sad
That any lad is every lad,
And what's a girl, to dare implore DOROTHY PARKER I never see the prettiest thing -
A cherry bough gone white with Spring -
But what I think, Ho...
DOROTHY PARKER Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con...
DOROTHY THOMPSON The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out ...
DOROTHY PARKER The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhap...
DOROTHY NEVILL Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live
DOROTHY THOMPSON Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of...
DOROTHY ALLISON The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out o...
DOROTHY PARKER If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.
DOROTHY GAMBRELL If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
DOROTHY PARKER Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
...
DOROTHY PARKER Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
DOROTHY ALLISON Oh seek, my love, your newer way;
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday DOROTHY PARKER If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I...
DOROTHY PARKER