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We should constantly be reminded of what we owe in return for what we have.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.
— Doris Lessing
When he first returned to the Badlands in the summer of 1884, the austere landscape seemed to mirror his melancholy.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
What is a hero without love for mankind.
— Doris Lessing
A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.
— Doris Lessing
I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
When there's a war, people get married.
— Doris Lessing
If you are a young writer today, it's very hard.
— Doris Lessing
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
— Doris Lessing
I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
— Doris Lessing
If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
— Doris Day
Democracy is not something we have. It's something we do.
— Doris "Granny D" Haddock
I don't even like parties.
— Doris Day
I haven't got the energy to write now.
— Doris Lessing
For real pleasure a pleasure resort should have no one in it but its legitimate inhabitants, oneself, and perhaps one's friends.
— Doris Lessing
Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.
— Doris Lessing
The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.
— Doris Lessing
Mother's room, and mother's need for privacy become a valuable lesson in respect for other people's rights.
— Doris Lessing
When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer.
— Doris Roberts
It was Andrew Jackson's motto, he reminded, that if you temporize, you are lost.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.
— Doris Lessing
The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.
— Doris Lessing
A continuity isn't necessarily right, just because it's a continuity.''Yes, Ella, it is. It is. Believe me, it is, — Doris Lessing
I've discovered, I guess, that it's fun to work.
— Doris Duke
I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.
— Doris Lessing
I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.
— Doris Lessing
It's a bully speech," encouraged Roosevelt in reply.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
The U.S. Senate presented the most powerful obstacle to any progressive reform.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
It seemed as though Theodore's passion for Alice far exceeded his genuine knowledge of her.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Became postmaster general, and Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln's "Mars," eventually became secretary
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
— Doris Lessing
It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.
— Doris Lessing
In the reflected gaze of his (her husband's) steady admiration, she saw the face of the girl he had fallen in love with.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
(Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
— Doris Lessing
Report that Tad was better eased Lincoln's mind,
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
It's okay to look back, just don't stare.
— Doris Roberts
Doris Day was such a big movie and TV star, people overlooked her singing. The proof is in the package. She's one of the best singers there ever was.
— Margaret Whiting
Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Paul was even more difficult than Ben. But he was a normal "disturbed" child, not an alien.
— Doris Lessing
Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
— Doris Lessing
SUCCESS: IS THE UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE OF LIFE AND WHAT IT BRINGS.. Doris Day said:What will be will be. =)
— A. R D.D M.G.
People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that,
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.
— Doris Lessing
One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, had made both sides see themselves as they are.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
It seems to me that ideas must flow through humanity like tides.
— Doris Lessing
Immediately allayed his fears, he gratefully recalled, by the raillery
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
The United States paid $7.5 million for the lands, which were divided into small parcels and sold to natives, creating a new landowning class.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Roosevelt declared, arguing that the insistence upon having only the perfect cure often results in securing no betterment whatever.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not.
— Doris Roberts
I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives.
— Doris Roberts
It's very interesting what you don't care about.
— Doris Lessing
I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.
— Doris Roberts
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
— Doris Lessing
Everybody's a teacher if you listen.
— Doris Roberts
I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.
— Doris Lessing
An adult friend of Lincoln's: Life was to him a school.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.
— Oscar Levant
It's intoxicating for a man to be waited on. Combine this with very, very skillful sex, and that will get them.
— Doris Lilly
As S. S. McClure well understood, the "vitality of democracy" depends on "popular knowledge of complex questions." At
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
You can only value something if you've experienced it.
— Doris Lessing
I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
The thing is, I haven't changed at all.
— Doris Lessing
Through the last days of May and the early days of June, Eleanor
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Still, Roosevelt noted, it was "not always easy to strike the just middle," and he inevitably made mistakes.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I loved all those Doris Day visuals of her being a tomboy and then changing into this gorgeous girl in a ballgown.
— Stella McCartney
What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.
— Doris Lessing
I do not like hardness of heart, but neither do I like softness of head.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin