Top 26 Doris Grumbach Quotes
#1. The road ahead is not easy. Iraq is currently the center of the war on terror.
Doc Hastings
#2. Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.
William Kingdon Clifford
#3. Those who dream big, and work hard, can expect great success.
Ellen J. Barrier
#4. Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow.
Doris Grumbach
#5. No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.
Mark Twain
#6. What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, a culture for deeper involvement, eventually, with them.
Doris Grumbach
#7. I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.
Christopher Hitchens
#8. A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder.
Doris Grumbach
#9. This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing.
Joe Lieberman
#10. To-day I shall be strong,
No more shall yield to wrong,
Shall squander life no more;
Days lost, I know not how,
I shall retrieve them now;
Now I shall keep the vow
I never kept before.
A.E. Housman
#11. Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
Heraclitus
#12. Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!
Angela Carter
#13. Automobiles consumed "20 percent of the steel, 12 percent of the aluminum, 10 percent of the copper, 51 percent of the lead, 95 percent of the nickel, 35 percent of the zinc, and 60 percent of the rubber used in the U.S." by 1933.
Jeremy Rifkin
#14. The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves were present, because for so long our existence depended upon assurances from them.
Doris Grumbach
#15. Film is like eating to me. It feels completely natural.
Roman Coppola
#16. My eyes glaze over at a writer solving tiny problems.
Doris Grumbach
#17. Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed.
Doris Grumbach
#18. One keeps one's friends better when one is alone. The corollary to this is that one loses one's friends, slowly, when one sees them too often or when they visit for too long a time.
Doris Grumbach
#20. We were determined by public opinions of us. Would we think we existed without outside confirmation? And how long would we live apart from others before we began to doubt our existence?
Doris Grumbach
#21. My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring.
Doris Grumbach
#22. Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.
Doris Grumbach
#23. One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment.
Rollo May
#24. Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.
Sara Sheridan
#25. However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
Kate Millett
#26. Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.
Allan Sloan
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