Doled Out Quotes

#1. In this town of towheaded drunks, [his daughter] would bear the weight of her difference, doled out in murmurs, taunts, and shoves. But now it occurred to Victor that she would suffer more than he ever had because, unlike him, she had been loved, and her punishment would come as a surprise.

Anya Ulinich

#2. Tintin comics evoke Bermuda, where my parents doled out comics for good behavior and my grandmother taught me how to shuffle cards.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#3. Some magazines are run from the top down, where the editor-in-chief decides what every article is going to be and who's going to write them, and then they're doled out. My idea is to do it the opposite way, to do it from the bottom up.

Ruth Reichl

#4. While his relaxed, good-natured voice doled out his life for us to live a rollicking past full of kid fun and drinking buddies and loving women and barroom battles over meager honors-for all of us to dream ourselves into.

Ken Kesey

#5. As far as I can see, Janet, life is just an endless banquet of loss, and each time a new loss is doled out, you have to move your mental furniture around, throw things out, and by then there's more loss, and the cycle goes on and on. (All Families are Psychotic.)

Douglas Coupland

#6. Self government is our right, a thing born to us at birth a thing no more to be doled out to us by another people then the right to life itself then the right to feel the sun or smell the flowers or to love our kind.

Roger Casement

#7. Freedom and dignity are not scraps to be doled out by cruel masters. They belong to every man, woman, and child. They are our right. And we won't stop, until they belong to us!

Steven Dos Santos

#8. The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.

Laura Innes

#9. How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

Mark Twain

#10. When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece.

Gail Zappa

#11. Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

Hallie Ephron

#12. What did love mean if it was doled out so carelessly, with no thought of consequence?

Damon Galgut

#13. Jesus remains the most influential person in history, one who has inspired untold followers for millennia.

Jay Parini

#14. Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.

Albrecht Durer

#15. I'm ready when you are, Lucan."
"Okay," he said, shaking his head in defeat. "Let's go get our boy.

Lara Adrian

#16. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never really was any problem.

C.S. Lewis

#17. I know how critical it is to make sure that people with pre-existing conditions have affordable insurance, and states are able to do that.

John Barrasso

#18. It's really nice to work with people who understand and really love the artistry of building sets, it's great.

Tim Burton

#19. What uneasiness lies in being loved.

Osamu Dazai

#20. I'd describe myself as a Christian who doesn't believe in God.

Helen Mirren

#21. I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself.

Mary J. Blige

#22. But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

Russell Hoban

#23. I will never be at ease while watching the sunset, knowing our stories will never end with the same words. All sunsets have their own story, it is just that ours will always fall incomplete.

Robert M. Drake

#24. You can't live with regrets. It's about the journey

Mariah Carey

#25. He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

E. M. Forster