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Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.


Dorothy L. Sayers

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J. K. ROWLING I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look for...
WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING He lets the people who work for him do their jobs. He expects not only a vision, but follow-through ...
BILL HAMILTON I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look for...
WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look f...
WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him!If he pays you wages that supply you your bread ...
ELBERT HUBBARD I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.
BILL MOYERS He's a tough man. I talked to him a little bit this morning and he told me he fully expects to be ou...
JUSTIN TUCK Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on a...
PAULA MCLAIN we knew he had his work cut out for him.
JIM JORDAN He has the charisma a quarterback should have. The other guys respect him for his hard work and athl...
THOMAS BROOKS The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if h...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws...
ALBERT CAMUS He had half their points in every quarter (in the last meeting). The emphasis was not to stop him, b...
DAN BRINKLEY He's very qualified. I think what separated him for me was he seemed so result-oriented. He expects ...
JOIE ALEXANDER Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
THOMAS CARLYLE God is not some lesser employee, as many try to make Him out to be: rather He is the ultimate Treasu...
CRISS JAMI Time... is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to...
WALTER BRADFORD CANNON Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him do...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be, A father is someone who...
FRANK A. CLARK Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him do...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I'm disappointed for him that he has made such a clumsy start. He's inexperienced and got caught out...
LUC LONGLEY For every man there comes that special moment when he is physically tapped on the shoulder and offer...
ANON. The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is a...
JEROME K. JEROME When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the ...
PARACELSUS When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the ...
PHILIPUS AUREOLUS PARACELSUS When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the ...
PHILIPUS AUREOLUS A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him littl...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We knew we had to cut off his penetration and make him work for everything he got.
ADARIUS ROGERS If he works for you, you work for him.
JAPANESE PROVERB A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
FRANK A. CLARK We're happy to have him. He carries his own burden of being good. Anywhere he goes he expects himsel...
DAVE RIGHETTI Watching him, I thought the kids really enjoyed playing for him and they played hard for him. After ...
DAN PETERS God created us all for a reason, for a purpose and that is where he expects us to work and develop
SUNDAY ADELAJA For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he w...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he w...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work o...
A.W. TOZER There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
E. W. HOWE A lot of guys said he was off the wall, he's crazy. I found him to be a guy with a lot of energy. He...
FRANK ROBINSON Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorot...
KAZUO ISHIGURO Most Americans look to him as a macho role model, mistaking him for the character he created in 'On ...
ELLIS AMBURN ...A day comes when a man notices or says that he is thirty. Thus he asserts his youth. But simultan...
ALBERT CAMUS He came in every time we asked him to, no questions asked. I've known him three years now. I know hi...
EVAN MALINGS He who is slothful in his work is a brother to him who is a great destroyer
BIBLE If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all...
LYSANDER SPOONER A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS He just knows how to pound the zone once he gets ahead. He just lets his defense work for him. He's ...
BRANDON INGE Right now he knows he's not the starter and he has a long ways to go. But I see a guy willing to wor...
DENNIS NORTHCUTT This is his life. He basically works for his dietary supplements, to pay for the gym time and for th...
LARRY BENNER It was tough to lose him because he is a starter and he came to practice every day, ready to work ha...
ERIK MASSEY Stephen is a big, big player, so he makes me work really hard. Every time he blocks my shot, then I ...
AHMET GUEYE If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a ...
VIC OLIVER A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets ...
BEN HECHT Somebody is going to get a good deal on a Monte Carlo sometime in February,? he said. His friend cla...
RUSSELL HALL You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the...
GEORGE MACDONALD Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul. The...
MATTHEW KELLY Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid f...
H. L. MENCKEN Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country it is a sign that he expects to be paid fo...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN He has done a tremendous job for the people of this county. I am not sure if everyone realizes the a...
LEGISLATOR DENNIS KORCE And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him; Breac...
BIBLE And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him; / Breach...
BIBLE I call him a huckster. He's able to seduce money out of people to keep his operation going, but this...
TOM ROBERTS He's the boss, but he works for me.
IKENNA OJUKWU We always have concerns about him coming to work but he loved his work so much, he was going to do i...
DANIEL MERIDETH A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to...
MAURICE BLANCHOT A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A. A. MILNE He got out of a big jam when he got Hilliard. The bottom line is he hit his spots and let the defens...
CHRIS ADAMS It's a great gift for Todd, his new baby boy, and I'm really happy for him. I'm just happy for Todd ...
BILL HAGER This is a bit of a retrospective show for him. He has work from earlier periods and all the way up t...
MARK MCWHORTER People referred to him as a peacemaker. He was an amazing advocate for his people. He was a really k...
CRAIG FRANCIS Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him...
FRANCIS BACON Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him f...
FRANCIS BACON Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him ...
FRANCIS BACON, SR. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him f...
FRANCIS BACON SR. He's a very intelligent hockey player, No. 1, that's his biggest thing. He made people better around...
MARK RECCHI We're really mad at this guy, we work hard for our money and he does this. We need to get him off th...
HUGO REYES (Prime Minister Joseph) Chamberlain loves the working man - he loves to see him work
WINSTON CHURCHILL The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he l...
BUCK OWENS A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON He prays as he is offering protection money to God, so that he does not trouble him with his antics.
DR HITESH C SHETH God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his h...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no h...
DONALD TRUMP The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I loved playing for him. He brought me here to Brockton three years ago and I appreciate that he did...
BRIAN JONES Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be g...
JOHN STUART MILL The trainer keeps talking about the Scottish National but there are plenty of other races for him. H...
BILL HAIGH A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately w...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately w...
VIKTOR FRANKL On every other aspect of his agenda, he is pretty close to dead in the water. This is one area of pr...
THOMAS MANN (POLITICAL ANALYST) For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't; and a sense of humour to console h...
UNKNOWN I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the ...
LARRY THE CABLE GUY Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, ...
WILLIAM JAMES Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself,...
WILLIAM JAMES He's the kind of guy that people want to work for. He will get people to rally around him and rally ...
BRIAN KELLEY No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, ...
DUDLEY NORTH Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things ...
JAMES ALLEN

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