Doddering Quotes

#1. The test of happiness is gratitude.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#2. Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.

John Sandford

#3. There was a great jagged hole where they had ripped out the fireplace; the wall around it was crowded with faded graffiti explain who loved who, who was gay and who should fuck off.

Tana French

#4. If you stay in the attention you are in, then you can predict everything that will happen to you for the rest of your life.

Frederick Lenz

#5. I might just crawl under my bed and not come out until I'm old and doddering and can't remember feeling anything for anyone at all.

Paula McLain

#6. We are missing a wisdom that emphasized peace.

Vicki Matthews

#7. We're all looking for a peaceful and safe place, but maybe there is no such place. But we keep going no matter what's waiting for us down the road. We don't stop living.

Fuyumi Soryo

#8. My wife divorced me because she could not trust me anymore.
I never want a divorce because I love and care about our daughter.

Toba Beta

#9. In all the meditative traditions of the world, visualizations and imagery are used to invoke particular qualities of mind and heart.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#10. Sometimes people look to others for answers they can find within themselves. I don't really want the responsibility of being the guy they look to.

Matthew Fox

#11. I can't see how I'll make it a year this way," he said.
"It seems impossible, I know. But when we're old and doddering, this year will seem like a blink.

Paula McLain

#12. I need someone who can keep up with me, not some sickly creature that looks as if he's doddering off to the grave.

Cassandra Clare

#13. A well-tailored suit is important - and I don't like wearing belts with mine - it should be tailored to your body.

Ryan Reynolds

#14. This boy needs a dog.
What makes you say that?
He needs someone or something to play with besides his phone and an old man and an old woman doddering around.

Kent Haruf

#15. Know this: even if you're like us and still doddering around above ground, someone out there from your past is probably pretty sure that you're dead by now. (p.125 )

Michael Zadoorian

#16. Already liberals are trying to rewrite the history of the Cold War to remove Reagan from its core, to make him a doddering B-movie actor who happened to be standing there when the Soviet Union imploded. They have the media, the universities, the textbooks. We have ourselves. We are the witnesses.

Ann Coulter

#17. They planned to know one another when they were ancient and gray-when we're doddering around with canes and have forgotten the names of our wives, we will still be Bassets,and still be young in our hearts.

E. Lockhart