Top 39 Dorothy Thompson Quotes
#1. spectacle of Dorothy Thompson at Madison Square Garden - tall, fair, blue-eyed, and laughing in her evening gown at twenty-two thousand "little men" - was not a thing to be forgotten.
Peter Kurth
#3. So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination ... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.
Michel De Montaigne
#4. Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands.
Dorothy Thompson
#5. A pickle a day keeps the stalker away.
Ananymous
#6. After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.
Dorothy Thompson
#7. Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
Dorothy Thompson
#10. The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.
Dorothy Thompson
#11. I accepted being a damn damsel in distress for you. You can be the hunky archangel in distress for once.
Nalini Singh
#12. Just forgive her in the name of God," Amma said of Abida. "Maybe it's good for you and her that she moved on with her life. Think positively that God gave your life back not to destroy with someone who failed to keep her promise.
Anand Giridharadas
#13. Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.
Dorothy Thompson
#14. All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.
Dorothy Thompson
#15. When liberty is taken away by force, it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished by default it can never be recovered.
Dorothy Thompson
#16. Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
Dorothy Thompson
#17. Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.
Dorothy Thompson
#18. If I were lucky enough to sit by you, I would have talked to you.
Stephenie Meyer
#19. The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.
Dorothy Thompson
#21. Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.
Dorothy Thompson
#22. The sex, it automatically becomes amazing when you own the person, you know he is loyal and no matter what he is not going to leave you.
Himmilicious
#23. It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
Dorothy Thompson
#24. Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare.
Dorothy Thompson
#25. The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
Dorothy Thompson
#26. Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict
alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
Dorothy Thompson
#27. The prices are ridiculous ... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?
Dorothy Thompson
#29. Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.
Ruby Wax
#30. Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
Dorothy Thompson
#31. Inventive man has invented nothing
nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.
Dorothy Thompson
#32. A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.
Dorothy Thompson
#33. There is a reason ladies swoon over rogues. They are dominant personalities," Jason said. "And they fall for soldiers because of the powerful image they put out.
Sarah M. Eden
#35. Smile as often as possible and love as much as you can In the end...the heart felt memories you leave behind is all that really counts!
Timothy Pina
#36. Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
Dorothy Thompson
#37. Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?
Dorothy Thompson
#38. The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
Dorothy Thompson
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