Top 100 Dorothea's Quotes
#1. Mrs Dorothea's typewriter was like a heart, a giant heart beating in the middle of the fog and chaos.
Roberto Bolano
#2. In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by counsel and by example.
Dorothea Dix
#3. Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.
Dorothea Dix
#4. Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!
Dorothea Dix
#6. Actually, I came here because of Skipper." "That was awfully nice! How's he doing? I'm going
Dorothea Benton Frank
#7. While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
Dorothea Lange
#8. Cucumber and bergamot," Clary said. "Is there anything else you hate that I ought to know about?"
Jace looked at Dorothea over the rim of his teacup. "Liars," he said.
Cassandra Clare
#9. In the United States, the person who led the fight to reform treatment of the mentally ill and to develop asylums was Dorothea Dix. Often neglected in history, Dix was a nurse
Molly Caldwell Crosby
#10. I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.
Dorothea Dix
#11. I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties are my aversion, and I look with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called.
Dorothea Dix
#13. A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of temper is the odor of fresh blooms, and the amaranth flowers of pure affection open but to bloom forever.
Dorothea Dix
#14. We were an imperfect family. I knew that. But at last we were on each other's side, dug in with a new and more profound commitment. Our happiness was hard won, it was ours and I was determined to keep us whole.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#15. The great benefactors of individuals and of communities are the enlightened educators: the wise-teaching, mental and moral instructors and exemplars of our times.
Dorothea Dix
#16. For me to help him," said Dorothea, ardently. "You have quite made up your mind, I see. Well, my dear, the fact is, I have a letter for you in my pocket." Mr. Brooke handed the letter to Dorothea, but as she rose to go away, he added, "There is not too much
George Eliot
#17. It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
Dorothea Lange
#18. The Devil danced all over the place in his beautiful eyes. You never knew what kind of surprise he had for you, just to make you laugh.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#19. Act boldly and unforeseen forces will come to your aid.
Dorothea Brande
#20. You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.
Dorothea Lange
#21. Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair.
Dorothea Dix
#22. A good woman's heart knows no bounds. And love is the most powerful and wondrous gift in the world. Yes, it is.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#23. When you start running from trouble? It confers with the devil on how to find you twice as fast.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#24. All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, and the feeling - right or wrong - that aloneness is my proper position has prevailed since my early childhood, no doubt nourished and strengthened by many and quick-following bereavements.
Dorothea Dix
#25. Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.
Dorothea Dix
#26. The lovely daisy, so justly celebrated by European poets, is not a native of our soil; we know it well, however, by cultivation in our gardens and green houses; besides, we are disposed to remember it for the sake of those who have sung its praises in immortal verse.
Dorothea Dix
#27. Brains are still unfashionable for women to wear, and it has always been proof of women's superiority that the more intelligent a man is, the more women admire him, while the bigger fool a woman is, the more men run after her.
Dorothea Dix
#28. DO take the initiative and introduce yourself to the people you don't know. DO say your first and last names: "Hello, I'm Heather Wells." This saves the other person from asking, "What's your last name?" DO be inclusive and greet the people you know, even if you saw them just hours earlier.
Dorothea Johnson
#29. That's what I wanted for myself for even just a little while-to be unaware of the rest of the world. I needed some time.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#30. Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
Dorothea Brande
#31. The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't see him is the fellow that you'd better find out why.
Dorothea Lange
#32. No," I said and smiled. "I just happen to like the taste of that particular grape." "Oh?" "Yeah. I think chardonnays are too oaky and heavy and German wines are too sweet. But if my roommate and I are sharing a bottle of something, it's usually on sale
Dorothea Benton Frank
#33. Makes you grow up quick. Hard work makes you strong. I work hard every day; that's where I get my strength. That and knowing who I am.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#34. There is, I think, great difficulty in writing of one's self: it is almost impossible to present subjects where the chief actor must be conspicuous and not seem to be, or really be, egotistical.
Dorothea Dix
#35. Please. Don't use the Lord's name, unless you're in prayer. It's a hundred years in purgatory.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#36. How Michelle spent her spare time was anybody's guess. Mostly she appeared to be marinating in a mood. "Got
Dorothea Benton Frank
#37. up mimosas and croissants at Billy's. No, no. In the Lowcountry it's got gravy on it - the
Dorothea Benton Frank
#38. Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?
Dorothea Dix
#39. Life is a struggle, I would tell him. Some days are better than others, and every person's life is bittersweet, filled with joy and pain.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#40. In the 1830s, Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of people with mental illness by taking them out of jails and caring for them in asylums, later known as state hospitals.
Thomas R. Insel
#41. The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else's requirement but your own.
Dorothea Lange
#42. If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks about the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain. I know what's wrong with me!
Dorothea Benton Frank
#43. Smile! It takes thirty-four muscles to frown and only thirteen to smile. Why make the extra effort?
Dorothea S. Kopplin
#44. As authentic as it is riveting and ultimately unforgettable. Your past will find you-and it can change your life. I think it's the most soulful book Patti Callahan has ever written.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#45. Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#46. We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.
Dorothea Lange
#47. We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease.
Dorothea Dix
#48. I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
Dorothea Lange
#49. I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, they would have been more explicitly declared in the Gospels, where we are so well taught the practice of every good word and work.
Dorothea Dix
#50. I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.
Dorothea Dix
#51. Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and conceptions.
Dorothea Lange
#52. Dorothea was not only his wife: she was a personification of that shallow world which surrounds the appreciated or desponding author.
George Eliot
#53. In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph.
Dorothea Brande
#54. Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.
Dorothea Brande
#55. The fabled origin of the laurel is this. Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, offended by the persecutions of Apollo, implored succour of the gods, who changed her into a laurel tree. Apollo crowned his head with the leaves and ordered that forever after, the tree should be sacred to him.
Dorothea Dix
#56. She says that on the day you stop believing in love you may as will lie down and die. I think she may be right.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#57. The most important thing I learned is that to be truly happy, you've got to pay attention to that stupid inner voice we all have. It knows what you need and will drive you shit crazy until you listen to it.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#58. My dear Mrs Casaubon," said Farebrother, smiling gently at her ardour, "character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do."
"Then it may be rescued and healed," said Dorothea.
George Eliot
#59. I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#60. That might be nice, an extra pair of arms," Jace said. "Handy in a fight."
"Not if they're growing out of your ... " Dorothea paused and smiled, not without malice. "Neck.
Cassandra Clare
#61. We insignificant people with our daily words and acts are preparing the lives of many Dorotheas, some of which may present a far sadder sacrifice than that of the Dorothea whose story we know.
George Eliot
#62. Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
Dorothea Lange
#63. Dorothea, he said to himself, was for ever enthroned in his soul: no other woman could sit higher than her footstool ...
George Eliot
#64. My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, and our son, William, but not necessarily in that order. Then, it's this fascinating world of publishing that devours most of my days and many nights.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#66. Jasmine, the name of which signifies fragrance, is the emblem of delicacy and elegance. It is reared with difficulty in New England, but at the South, puts forth all its graces.
Dorothea Dix
#67. Not at all," said Dorothea, with the most open kindness. "I like you very much."
Will was not quite contented, thinking that he would apparently have been of more importance if he had been disliked. He said nothing, but looked dull, not to say sulky.
George Eliot
#68. What was that old story about how women had a better chance of being abducted by aliens than they did getting married after forty?
Dorothea Benton Frank
#69. What an enthusiastic devotion is that which sends a man from the attractions of home, the ties of neighbourhood, the bonds of country, to range plains, valleys, hills, mountains, for a new flower.
Dorothea Dix
#70. My happiest hours are spent in school, surrounded by those I hope to benefit.
Dorothea Dix
#72. No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.
Dorothea Dix
#73. I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?
Dorothea Benton Frank
#74. One morning, some weeks after her arrival at Lowick, Dorothea - but why always Dorothea? Was her point of view the only possible one with regard to this marriage?
George Eliot
#75. That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought.
Dorothea Dix
#76. I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#77. What he didn't know was that he always would and that in all those important moments that were yet to come to pass in his life, there would be a searing wound. Over time the wound would grow smaller, but it would never disappear.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#78. The soul of politeness is not a question of rules but of tranquility, humility, and simplicity. And in the taking of tea it finds perhaps its most perfect expression.
Dorothea Johnson
#79. The first indication of menopause is a broken thermostat. It's either that or your weight. In any case, if you don't do something, you could be dead by August.
God, middle age is an unending insult.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#80. What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
Dorothea Dix
#81. They say you only have so many breaths in your lifetime, and I think disappointments might be the same.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#82. 'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted'; but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.'
Dorothea Dix
#83. Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon ... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
Dorothea Lange
#84. Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and felt. I hear the currents of Alice Notley, of Bernadette Mayer, of Eileen Myles, and Sylvia Plath
Dorothea Lasky
#85. Dorothea is a Grey," he pointed out. "Any member of her family would pause on the gallows to exchange witty banter with the hangman before graciously putting the noose about his neck with his own hands.
Diana Gabaldon
#86. Dreams made your eyes sparkle over the possibilities of doing something new and exciting. Reality made the rest of you break a sweat in panic. I was terrified.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#87. There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
Dorothea Brande
#88. Those who do wrong very often think others are censuring them, when they are not even thought of.
Dorothea Dix
#89. My tongue had probably earned about 20 million Frequent Flyer Miles to rush my immortal impudent soul to a special torture chamber in purgatory
Dorothea Benton Frank
#90. In proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted has deepened. If I am cold, they too are cold; if I am weary, they are distressed; if I am alone, they are abandoned.
Dorothea Dix
#92. What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother's house. When my mother passed away, I wanted to buy it from the rest of my family and keep the house in the family. That was the only reason I even attempted writing for money.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#93. I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
Dorothea Lange
#94. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
Dorothea Brande
#95. This benefit of seeing ... can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image ... the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.
Dorothea Lange
#96. That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
Dorothea Lange
#97. You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has row after row of people bending over and digging out carrots - that can be very tedious. And so it's only once in a while that something happens that is worth doing.
Imogen Cunningham
#99. No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
Dorothea Lange
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