Top 36 Dorothy Gilman Quotes
#1. Everything matters terribly to children, you know, they're fresh and unformed ...
Dorothy Gilman
#2. Yeah, you can ask that and I'll promise to do what I can do. But, Ace, since I was a kid, I had a temper. Tellin' you that don't mean I can't compromise, just means I am who I am, I know who I am, and you gotta take me as I am and learn to get over it.
Kristen Ashley
#3. Will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.
Dorothy Gilman
#4. Old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.
Dorothy Gilman
#6. Do you like Magda too?" His gaze left the gate to sweep the courtyard. "She seems pleasant enough when she's not drugged. But then she nearly always is, isn't she?" He
Dorothy Gilman
#7. Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self ...
Dorothy Gilman
#9. Respect is that great spirit of good, which creates the beautiful space giving all souls the simple room to breathe.
Bryant McGill
#10. My rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.
Dorothy Gilman
#11. I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world.
Maurice Strong
#12. We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.
Dorothy Gilman
#13. Someone will care if you just give 'em a chance. There's always people who need you as much as you need them. Don't you forget that. All you got to do is find 'em. And when you do, you find you're happier carin' about someone else than just about yourself all the time.
Ester Wier
#14. So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.
Emily Mortimer
#15. It's terribly important for everyone, at any age, to live to his full potential. Otherwise a kind of dry rot sets in, a rust, a disintegration of personality,
Dorothy Gilman
#16. Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies.
Dorothy Gilman
#17. If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
Dorothy Gilman
#18. There are no happy endings there are only happy people.
Dorothy Gilman
#19. I act probably a lot more than you see. I happen to choose movies that don't have much of a life, or I choose movies that are shown on cable instead of as features.
Holly Hunter
#20. What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it right, and emerge an hour or two later breathless, contented, and wondering what on earth happened.
Dorothy Gilman
#21. People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.
Dorothy Gilman
#22. It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.
Dorothy Gilman
#24. It wasn't that she had so much character, thought Mrs. Pollifax, but rather that always in her life she had found it difficult to submit. The list of her small rebellions was endless. Surely there was room for one more?
Dorothy Gilman
#25. And wished with all her heart that she wasn't so tired, wished that a broken wrist would radiate violent pain instead of this strange numbing ache that was exhausting her by its subtlety and consistency.
Dorothy Gilman
#26. People misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.
Dorothy Gilman
#27. When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.
Dorothy Gilman
#28. If life was like a body of water, she had asked that she be allowed to walk again in its shallows; instead she had been abruptly seized by strong currents and pushed into deep water.
Dorothy Gilman
#29. You haven't been planting seeds of insurrection, have you, Duchess?"
"Well, it's a change from planting geraniums," she retorted.
Dorothy Gilman
#30. She drew herself up to her full height - it was a little difficult on a donkey - and said primly, I have always found that in painful situations it is a sensible idea to take each hour as it comes and not to anticipate beyond. But oh how I wish I could have a bath!
Dorothy Gilman
#31. I tend not to reread books, because there's always something new to discover, but Dorothy Sayers is a comfort grab for me - there's no mood so bleak or cold so bad that Lord Peter and Bunter can't make it right.
Laura Anne Gilman
#32. When a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.
Dorothy Gilman
#33. I think personal power is having the availability to say, 'No' to something, whatever that may be.
Anika Noni Rose
#34. Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.
Leo Tolstoy
#35. Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.
Dorothy Gilman
#36. That's what terrorism is, basically - pure theater. Nothing in particular is ever accomplished by it, other than to focus attention on a small group of people who seize absolute power by threatening everything that holds civilization together.
Dorothy Gilman
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