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Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has o...
DOROTHY HEIGHT

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the per...
DOROTHY HEIGHT

We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in ...
DOROTHY HEIGHT

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. ...
DOROTHY HEIGHT

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manip...
DOROTHY HEIGHT

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person ...
DOROTHY HEIGHT

She said it in her gentle manner but with the same vigor of the prophets of old as they struck injus...
DOROTHY HEIGHT

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, n...
DOROTHY HEIGHT

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can,t take the same things for g...
DOROTHY HEIGHT

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manip...
DOROTHY HEIGHT

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. . . . We h...
DOROTHY HEIGHT

She has made his teachings something that will live for a long time. She took the King philosophy se...
DOROTHY HEIGHT

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things f...
DOROTHY HEIGHT

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do no...
DOROTHY HEIGHT

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to...
DOROTHY HEIGHT

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 She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
DOROTHY PARKER If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
DOROTHY PARKER That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKER Inventory:

"Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend...
DOROTHY PARKER If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do the...
DOROTHY PARKER Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
DOROTHY DAY There's little in taking or giving
There's little in water or wine
This living, this livin...
DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?
DOROTHY PARKER In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad<...
DOROTHY PARKER I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
DOROTHY PARKER Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you; DOROTHY PARKER All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were a...
DOROTHY PARKER Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men...
DOROTHY THOMPSON Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
DOROTHY PARKER There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply...
DOROTHY PARKER Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a poi...
DOROTHY PARKER I never thought that heav'n would lose its blue
And sullen storm-clouds mask the gentle sky; DOROTHY PARKER All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't si...
DOROTHY PARKER I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
DOROTHY PARKER Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you shou...
DOROTHY HAMILL The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsa...
DOROTHY NEVILL He'd have given me rolling lands,
Houses of marble, and billowing farms,
Pearls, to trickle ...
DOROTHY PARKER Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my ...
DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infi...
DOROTHY PARKER Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word
DOROTHY PARKER They laid their hands upon my head,
They stroked my cheek and brow;
And time could heal a hu...
DOROTHY PARKER Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
DOROTHY PARKER I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back ...
DOROTHY PARKER Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
DOROTHY PARKER The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
DOROTHY DAY I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
DOROTHY PARKER Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
DOROTHY PARKER How necessary it is to cultivate a spirit of joy. It is a psychological truth that the physical acts...
DOROTHY DAY He maintained that the case was lost or won by the time the final juror had been sworn in; his summa...
DOROTHY UHNAK If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increa...
DOROTHY DAY Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the th...
DOROTHY PARKER Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or a...
DOROTHY DAY I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
After four...
DOROTHY PARKER Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
DOROTHY PARKER Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (B...
DOROTHY PARKER For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the b...
DOROTHY DIX It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.
DOROTHY PARKER He Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
DOROTHY PARKER Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That ...
DOROTHY SARNOFF Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
DOROTHY BERNARD And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it tru...
DOROTHY PARKER Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in mot...
DOROTHY THOMPSON Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground al...
DOROTHY PARKER Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
DOROTHY PARKER Act as if it were impossible to fail.
DOROTHY BROUDE Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
DOROTHY NEVILL Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment ...
DOROTHY DIX In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something...
DOROTHY DIX He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
DOROTHY PARKER Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out...
DOROTHY PARKER His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets.
DOROTHY PARKER Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.
DOROTHY PARKER I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicul...
DOROTHY PARKER Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the cop...
DOROTHY PARKER Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of...
DOROTHY PARKER I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
DOROTHY PARKER The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
DOROTHY PARKER This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
DOROTHY PARKER When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
DOROTHY PARKER Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to u...
DOROTHY PARKER Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
DOROTHY PARKER Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
DOROTHY PARKER It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.
DOROTHY PARKER Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never ...
DOROTHY PARKER Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies
DOROTHY PARKER It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that mak...
DOROTHY DIX Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded
wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best ...
DOROTHY DAY Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
DOROTHY PARKER Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKER The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
DOROTHY DAY Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone
DOROTHY PARKER Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses...
DOROTHY PARKER I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things....
DOROTHY PARKER Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
DOROTHY THOMPSON Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to...
DOROTHY DRAPER Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
DOROTHY SARNOFF Change happens very slow and very sudden.
DOROTHY BRYANT The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
DOROTHY THOMPSON Why can't I be the adorable one?
DOROTHY KILGALLEN Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are ...
DOROTHY DAY There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors o...
DOROTHY FIELDS I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting...
DOROTHY DAY Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con...
DOROTHY THOMPSON First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified bef...
DOROTHY DAY We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fund...
DOROTHY DAY When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups...
DOROTHY DAY We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
DOROTHY DAY We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest ...
DOROTHY DAY It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and s...
DOROTHY DAY Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
DOROTHY DAY Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is...
DOROTHY DAY I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.
DOROTHY DAY Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom...
DOROTHY DAY Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
DOROTHY DAY Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinat...
DOROTHY DAY Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a whi...
DOROTHY DAY Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.
DOROTHY DAY Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
DOROTHY DAY As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the othe...
DOROTHY DAY They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
DOROTHY DAY We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this ...
DOROTHY DAY The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution whi...
DOROTHY DAY The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
DOROTHY DAY To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
DOROTHY THOMPSON If I were white, I could capture the world.
DOROTHY DANDRIDGE Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater i...
DOROTHY HAMILL Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful ...
DOROTHY DENNING We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
DOROTHY DAY Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
DOROTHY THOMPSON Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
DOROTHY DAY I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston.
DOROTHY HAMILL The death of the forest is the end of our life.
DOROTHY STANG A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.
DOROTHY GILMAN Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in...
DOROTHY DIX While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally ...
DOROTHY DENNING At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.
DOROTHY HAMILL The mind is pretty powerful. In skating, you learn to click into that zone and focus not necessarily...
DOROTHY HAMILL Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each othe...
DOROTHY ALLISON I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom woul...
DOROTHY HAMILL DOROTHY PARKER It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, st...
DOROTHY HAMILL Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.
DOROTHY PARKER Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely...
DOROTHY DENNING I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any ...
DOROTHY STANG Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, ...
DOROTHY HAMILL I never see that prettiest thing-
A cherry bough gone white with Spring-
But what I think,...
DOROTHY PARKER He loves her like a gambler loves a fast racehorse or a desperate man loves whiskey. That kind of lo...
DOROTHY ALLISON If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - no...
DOROTHY GILMAN Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and...
DOROTHY ALLISON There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal...
DOROTHY THOMPSON You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the o...
DOROTHY DUNNETT I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote ...
DOROTHY HODGKIN While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to ...
DOROTHY DENNING I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to m...
DOROTHY ALLISON In a way, I'm like Will Rogers, never having met a man I really disliked. I'm not a vamp. I ...
DOROTHY STRATTEN I think it's wonderful that people in pickup trucks are buying two flats of dog food and a copy ...
DOROTHY ALLISON The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and depende...
DOROTHY DIX When I first read the script, I realized that Katie would have to be played as a rather down-to-eart...
DOROTHY MCGUIRE I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season w...
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