Top 96 Dora's Quotes
#1. Even Grace still imagined there might be words, the words that could reach Dora and that had so far, unaccountably, not been hit upon. Only Caro recognized that Dora's condition was exactly that: a condition, an irrational state requiring professional, or divine, intervention.
Shirley Hazzard
#2. We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.
Dora Russell
#3. Anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher.
Dora Russell
#4. Dementia is not merely an individual disease; it affects the entire family.
Dora Leigh
#5. Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.
Dora Russell
#6. No. How dare you . You were the guardian of throne and country. And now I, having cast aside my life for you, find the Dora Milaje and their capatain turned jambazi! What has come of you, Aneka? What of your oath to the nation? To me ?
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#7. People love those they can, but hate those they don't understand.
Dora Okeyo
#8. Dora sat on a corner of the spread rug, longing to be assigned some task so she could resent it.
Shirley Hazzard
#9. Sometimes, it seems to me that, the smaller the things is that people want, the bigger the disappointment when they don't get it, or it's not exactly right -dora
Erin McKean
#10. Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before.
Bertrand Russell
#11. Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
Dora Russell
#12. ... and he wasn't reconciled to dying. Dora told him he was going to a better world. "Mebbe, mebbe," says poor Ben, "but I'm sorter used to the imperfections of this one.
L.M. Montgomery
#13. Trouble is my middle name.
Dora Sky
#14. Next time when I tell you to do something, you do it. And be careful with your dirty mouth, it can get you in deep trouble.
Dora Sky
#15. You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.
Dora Russell
#16. What does one do about the dead? They live forever.
Dora Russell
#17. Your tongue is moving my King but the words are not making their way to my ears
Dora Okeyo
#18. I had a dream about you. We were in a canoe, and we were paddling across the desert. You said you were thirsty, and I pointed to the sand that surrounded us and said, "No, I will not urinate in your mouth." At that point I woke up, because I realized I really had to pee - and get a drink of water.
Dora J. Arod
#19. There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.
Dora Russell
#20. I had a dream about you. You were wearing Sylvester Stallone's sneer as pants, but his lips were saggy on your legs, so you had to wear a mustache as a belt.
Dora J. Arod
#21. I'm a fake fact factory. The things I make are the things I make up. Also, as a side business, I make love. Actually, I just made that up.
Dora J. Arod
#22. They come out of nowhere, instantaneously materialize and just as quickly they break and vanish. Chasing after such fleeting mirages is a complete waste of time. That is what I choose to do with my life.
Miki Dora
#23. To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition - I am sure it was the summit of mine.
Charles Dickens
#24. People are really in despair today in Greece. They are afraid of tomorrow. They suffer. We have 1.2 million people without jobs. So you understand that this crisis cannot leave the political system untouched. Of course we have to change but we have to change in the right way.
Dora Bakoyannis
#25. The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more.
Dora Russell
#26. Fashion is about mixing everything you love in one piece, putting all your flaws together, telling the world to accept you the way you are. If they don't get it, it's fine. As long as you feel comfortable in your skin, nobody has the right to tell you otherwise.
Dora Sky
#27. The aunties can make Game of Thrones look like Dora the Explorer, but that's not the point.
Tanya Huff
#28. A man must be quite intelligent in order to accept that a woman is his intellectual equal.
Dora Musielak
#30. Dora pushed the mirror, sending it shattering to the floor. "Whoops." She turned to face Dee and pulled off her dark glasses to reveal the mirrors of her eyes. "You should go now. You've got about three seconds." Dee didn't quite make it out of the shop before it exploded.
Michael Scott
#31. You are the earth, my dear grandson, and just like it takes everything without complaining, so have you shown us today that you will take everything in kind, and there's no greater title than this.
Dora Okeyo
#32. What a denial of our humanity that at the centers of power, where decisions are made, there is no room for nurturing, for love, and children. There is more to life than the 'inhuman' work place. It is terrible that many men do not know that: it is a tragedy if women follow them.
Dora Russell
#33. You cannot walk away. The truth is that there is no magic way that you can say to your partners, "You are going to continue paying us the money and we will not keep our part of the deal." This is not possible around the world. It is good to hear it.
Dora Bakoyannis
#34. I've taken salsa classes. I love dancing and I love to karaoke. So I bought a microphone with some tapes and my son and I karaoke. I know the entire 'Dora the Explorer' soundtrack.
Sherri Shepherd
#35. I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow to distraction! She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I dont know what she was
anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted.
David Copperfield
#36. I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.
'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.
L.M. Montgomery
#38. Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.
Dora Russell
#39. Strictly speaking, no person who believes that wars between classes and nations are inevitable is fit to be in charge of the destiny of children. To believe in the unity of the human race and get children to believe it in early youth would mean the creation of that unity and the end of war.
Dora Russell
#40. Consumers can choose from hundreds of channels today, including dozens for kids. At a time of dwindling resources, we don't need to be subsidizing PBS. It's time for Big Bird the mooch to compete with 'Dora the Explorer' and 'Bob the Builder.'
Mark McKinnon
#42. In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
Jacki Weaver
#43. Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.
Dora Russell
#44. Lovers had loved before, and lovers would love again; but no lover had ever loved, might, could, would, or should ever love, as I loved Dora.
Charles Dickens
#45. My love is meatloaf flavored. I just wish my meatloaf was also meatloaf flavored.
Dora J. Arod
#46. We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.
Dora Russell
#47. I was thrilled to play a role on 'Dora the Explorer,' a show that has touched the lives of many children around the world, including my own child. Dora is such an iconic and important Latina heroine, and I'm proud to now be a part of the show's ever-growing legacy.
Thalia
#48. Good, I haven't written anything in two weeks except what I've written in my journal.
And that is good? What kind of standards are you using?
Dora Okeyo
#49. Nelly's father was rich. Her mother was fabulous. She was reckless.
Dora Okeyo
#50. Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.
Dora Russell
#51. We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
Dora Russell
#52. I jerk around and see Sister Dora, a portly woman who's the head cook in the kitchen, staring daggers at me. This is nothing new. She stares daggers at everyone who walks through the lunch line holding a tray, as though our needing sustenance is a personal affront.
Pittacus Lore
#54. You don't respect me," said Dora, her voice trembling.
"Of course I don't respect you," said Paul. "Have I any reason to? I'm in love with you, unfortunately, that's all."
"Well, it's unfortunate for me too," said Dora, starting to cry.
Iris Murdoch
#55. And Dora pushed the mirror, sending it shattering to the floor. "Whoops.
Michael Scott
#56. I warned you," Herobrine growled, in a terrifying tone. "It was funny at first, but you took it too far. I'm not Dora The Explorer. Do you see a talking backpack? Swiper no swiping doesn't work in this world.
The Cowardly Helper
#57. I learned another rule, men don't buy men flowers
Dora Okeyo
#58. Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.
Dora Russell
#59. I had a dream about you. You were an escalator, and I was a flight of stairs. You thought I was a Luddite, and I thought I was as ostrich, because I hadn't figured out how to put the fly in flight. One day you broke down, and then you saw that you and I weren't so different after all.
Dora J. Arod
#60. Sometimes saviors look different than you thought they would.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#62. Wisdom comes in the silence of one's chaos
Dora Okeyo
#63. Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
Dora Russell
#64. Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
Dora Russell
#65. Thank God for a few free waves.
Miki Dora
#66. Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature.
Dora Russell
#67. Swoon, Dora. Every young woman deserves to swoon over the love of her life.
Nancy Moser
#68. There are some secrets darker than witchcraft." - Aunt Dora
April Aasheim
#69. My love is pizza shaped. Won't you have a slice? It's circular, so there's enough to go around.
Dora J. Arod
#70. We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
Dora Russell
#71. As yet, little Dora was quite unconscious of my desperate firmness, otherwise than as my letters darkly shadowed it forth. But
Charles Dickens
#72. You heard me, Laila. He broke up with Meri, and now, wants me back. I told him to go fuck himself."
She smiles at me with pride. "That's my bitch." We click our bottles and swig a large mouthful.
Dora Sky
#73. My Grandmother says that love is like a bout of diarrhea, it needs neither an invitation nor privacy.
Dora Okeyo
#74. I find it all infinitely sad, but at the same time so entrancing, that I often feel as if it would be the part of wisdom to fly at once to the woods or mountains where one can always find peace. - Dora Root in a letter to Daniel Burnham
Erik Larson
#75. If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.
Dora Russell
#76. She was the type that had everything but needed something.
Dora Okeyo
#77. Dora was having trouble with her income tax, for she was entangled in that curious enigma which said the business was illegal and then taxed her for it.
John Steinbeck
#78. Love is watching two people fall in love and become one.
Dora Okeyo
#79. I will be forever grateful to Dora Brooking, for not only spotting my light bulb but also helping me turn up the wattage.
Simon Pegg
#80. Every King, like the river, is evident by his currents
Dora Okeyo
#81. And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to read or whatever from her show. But I wouldn't mind if Dora fell off a cliff and took her little pals with her
Meg Cabot
#82. And by the same token she is hated by the twisted and lascivious sisterhood of married spinsters whose husbands respect the home but don't like it very much. Dora
John Steinbeck
#83. I pray for John the Baptist and Baby Jesus to come around for a playdate with Dora and Boots.
Emma Donoghue
#84. Dora appeared, placing Alex's coffee in front of him."Your girlfriend is a wonder, honey,"she siad to him, squeezing willows shoulder. Willow's smile turned strained at the word "girlfriend. He could see her wanting to correct the woman and then deciding to let it pass.
L.A. Weatherly
#85. I've got a business to run. Elmo's bringing over a new bed frame. Dora broke her's last night. That girl should be in a side show, not a whorehouse.
Ruta Sepetys
#86. I had a dream about you. We were ice fishing in my freezer. I caught a few cold beers, and you wondered if we should drink them, or throw them back because they were babies.
Dora J. Arod
#87. So does that mean you're going to fall in love with me again?
What makes you think i ever stopped?
Nora Roberts
#88. Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.
Dora Russell
#89. (Just so you know, I practice Spanish watching Dora the Explorer and playing GTA, so I know how to say backpack, whore, and weed. I hope you're impressed.)
Camilla Monk
#90. We, my dear Mildred, are the observers of life. Let other people get married by all means, the more the merrier ... Let Dora marry if she likes. She hasn't your talent for observation.
Barbara Pym
#91. Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.
Dora Russell
#92. I only know that when I study mathematics, I transport myself to another world, a world of exquisite beauty and truth. And in that world I am the person I like to be.
Dora Musielak
#93. I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on all our creative instincts ...
Dora Russell
#95. I just don't want to come down to that level of society ... .the ones who sit by their televisions, drink their beer, their guts fat, vicariously living someone else's life, in a destructive way. I want a positive way.
Miki Dora
#96. I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney.
Lidia Yuknavitch
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