Top 87 Dubois Quotes
#1. The sessions with Mr. Dubois continued, but it was in the private parlor of Abigail Braddock that Sarah Biddle received the greatest knowledge, for in Mrs. Braddock's private parlor Sarah Biddle learned not only to read books, but also to love them.
Stephanie Grace Whitson
#2. She stopped, and he knew she had caught herself, dismayed a what she had been about to reveal. [Nicole Dubois]
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#3. g*d wept, but that mattered little to an unbelieving age ... for there began to rise in America in 1876 a new capitalism & a new enslavement of labor" --w.e.b. dubois
Debois
#4. If you're a die-hard "foodie," hop off the road in DuBois and enjoy a Subway sandwich made at a place that is eighty percent gas station.
Tina Fey
#5. In his book The Soul of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois writes about always feeling his twoness
an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; to warring ideals in one dark body.
Ron Suskind
#6. Pierre Patenaude, whom she was currently interviewing, had just explained that the staff changed almost every year, so it was necessary to train most of them. "Do you have trouble holding on to staff?" she asked. "Mais, non," Madame Dubois said. Agent Lacoste had
Louise Penny
#7. The most important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - CHARLES DUBOIS
David Simpson
#8. Philosophically, Dubois may have had no problem with a great African American institution. On the other hand, he always believed ultimately in the co-mingling of groups and the interplay of talents and in the collaboration of groups.
David Levering Lewis
#9. Dr. Harris was now wishing that the late Doc Dubois had never opened his big fat mouth.
Neal Stephenson
#11. But, I added, duBois had found no evidence of any malfeasance. She'd spoken to dozens of officers and administrators within the department, armed with her pen and calculator. What Westerfield and Teasley had found, the money shifting from one account to another, seemed to duBois to be innocent.
Jeffery Deaver
#12. We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about.
Henry Louis Gates
#13. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.
Barack Obama
#14. My own heart is in my characters. My novels are my memories; they are the best part of me.
Gabrielle Dubois
#15. It's important to remember there is a 20 year US. occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934. That represents a major transition in the history of the country and kind of reshaping partly in terms of just their direction of their attention.
Laurent Dubois
#16. My father had a healthy disregard for social conventions: he once let me paint the house windows in rainbows with my watercolor set, to my mother's horror, and he'd clap for trees that he thought were doing a good job of exploding into red during the fall.
Jennifer DuBois
#17. One can become so sentimental about a person's absence, but it's impossible to be consistently sentimental in his presence - when you're confronted with the quotidian selfishness and silence that, I'm given to understand, comprise most of a life. But we were just so new.
Jennifer DuBois
#18. You mean before Mab Monroe staked him out and barbecued him like a pork chop for all his friends to see," I replied. "And you too. Pity, dear old dad getting roasted like that right in front of you.
Jennifer Estep
#19. Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic forces in human history.
Ellen DuBois
#20. Journalism classes teach us that one must extract oneself from the story in order to report without bias, but often we need to be in the story in order to understand, to connect, to help the audience identify or else it has no heart; it could be a robot telling the story, for all anyone cares.
Cecelia Ahern
#21. Love from novels isn't true love: it ends where it should begin. True love, deep love, grows up with time, throughout days of dullness and days of storms. It leaves in one's heart a rainbow of tenderness and forgiveness which illuminates forever the beloved one.
Gabrielle Dubois
#22. Turn the page, your heroine is still there, breathe, relax, life is beautiful: you're in a book!
Gabrielle Dubois
#23. When my father wrote about fate, I think he was writing about the reality that is, when there are so many other realities that could have been.
Jennifer DuBois
#24. Time is priceless, yet it costs us nothing. You can do anything you want with it, but you can't own it. You can spend it, but you can't keep it. And once you've lost it, there is no getting it back. It's just gone.
Allison DuBois
#25. The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader.
Gabrielle Dubois
#27. What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.
Gabrielle Dubois
#28. Forgiveness was work, Eduardo told victims' families
but so, then, was love, and deciding what was right, and defending it. Recusing yourself from judgment so you won't be tainted by the aggressor's sin is the same as turning away from empathy so you won't be touched by the victim's pain.
Jennifer DuBois
#29. And anyway, the anticipation was always worse than the thing itself - the anticipation and the memory, of course. And the anticipation of the memory was maybe the worst part of all.
Jennifer DuBois
#30. Do you ever feel that way, though?" "What way?" "Like you could go back to some time that's passed? Like you catch yourself thinking, why don't I go there anymore, and why don't I see those people and attend those parties, and then you remember it's because that life is gone? And that you can't?
Jennifer DuBois
#31. Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.
Cecelia Ahern
#32. She submitted to his embrace with the resignation of a person who has already planned to take away something enormous, and so has no trouble giving something trifling
Jennifer DuBois
#33. Maybe every single person on the planet is completely messed up in their own special way
Zoey DuBois
#34. Polytheism may be more consonant with contemporary life, its mixed populations, and its recognition of psychic complexity and interdependence, than a rigorous Protestant monotheism.
Page DuBois
#35. Desire may cease once the desired person or object is acquired. The desire of reading doesn't cease once a book is read, however extraordinary this one was.
Gabrielle Dubois
#36. Major export is people who are funny and smart, who have advanced degrees, who read on public transportation.
Jennifer DuBois
#37. It was bewildering, the way that reality could be overtaken, wrestled down, and murdered by the sheer weight of possibility.
Jennifer DuBois
#38. Learning to be an adult was learning that your best was rarely quite enough.
Jennifer DuBois
#39. The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.
Urbain Dubois
#40. He could hear his knees crack, and it made him feel old. You had to live so terribly long to actually be old, but Sebastien was starting to wonder if people began to feel that way quite a bit earlier, and spent their lives waiting for their bodies to match their souls.
Jennifer DuBois
#42. There's an intimacy in listening to somebody's lies, I've always thought
you learn more about someone from the things they wish were true than from the things that actually are.
Jennifer DuBois
#43. That's an applicable life less, my boy,' he'd said. 'Nobody is really paying attention to you. Most people don't really get this. They think they must count more to other people than other people count to them. They can't believe the disregard could truly be mutual.
Jennifer DuBois
#45. Sometimes life decides that we must also take care of ourselves in other ways and love, the way we perceive it, must reflect only upon us.
Robert Dubois
#46. The things that go wrong are rarely the things you've thought to worry about.
Jennifer DuBois
#47. The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment.
Laurent Dubois
#48. Sadness, forever unacknowledged, eventually becomes resentment.
Jennifer DuBois
#49. Love. Safety. Disappointment. Loss. Pain. Abandonment.
Lucinda DuBois
#50. Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at the same time, of its close affinity with the gibbon group of anthropoid apes.
Eugene Dubois
#51. The city had seemed grand to him once ... it had once had a certain clarity. When you're young you think it's the clarity that's intoxicating; later you realize you were only ever drunk on your own vision.
Jennifer DuBois
#52. And in the spring, it's touching to notice them making their first discovery of love! As if nobody had ever known it before!
Tennessee Williams
#53. What did Owen ever see in you?" "Oh, I don't know," I said, my voice as cold and calm as hers was. "Maybe the fact that I'm not a psychotic bitch who tortures people for kicks.
Jennifer Estep
#54. Above Constance's desk were nude photographs of women in 1930s France, draped in provocative poses. She had put them there for Bob's viewing pleasure and in return he had placed African art of naked men above his desk for her.
Cecelia Ahern
#56. Saying good-bye when you know it's for the last time is like no other sadness you will ever experience.
Allison DuBois
#58. He regarded conversation as sport, and Lily loved anyone who regarded anything in life as sport (except for actual sports).
Jennifer DuBois
#59. Sending them was like sending a probe to Mars - he thought of its insect legs folding up into a squat, its motorized head casting this way and that. You could program it to do what you wanted, but it was no replacement for going there yourself and flinging your fingers into the red sand.
Jennifer DuBois
#60. At the ending of the day when I'm weary after a waterfall of tears have all been cried - and I'm feeling like the skies will always be dreary - nothing's there to fill the emptiness inside.
Ellen M. DuBois
#63. I think you learn to live with the pain of miscarrying. The open wound heals and becomes a scar. Not as raw, but always there. A part of you- your heart.
Ellen DuBois
#64. But all that talk. All those confidences. He shuddered to think about it. At the time, though, he didn't know any better, and he was filled the gleeful lurching and teeth-chattering panic of early and undiagnosed love.
Jennifer DuBois
#65. One ever feels his twoness,
an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strenth alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#66. A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.
Gabrielle Dubois
#67. She'd said "died" as a courtesy to him - nobody in her family could stand people who said "passed away" - but
Jennifer DuBois
#68. He was terrified, he was thrilled. That was love.
Lila Dubois
#69. The trick to not killing yourself was to convince yourself, every single day, that your departure from the world would have a devastating effect on absolutely everyone around you, despite consistent evidence to the contrary.
Jennifer DuBois
#70. Everybody should have someone whose belief in them in unwavering, unconditional, always.
Jennifer DuBois
#71. Don't ever second-guess a strong feeling that you have. Trust your gut.
Allison DuBois
#72. We all have days when we say that we are gown-ups, that we are mature, have a lot of experience and don't need advise from others.
But it is our mom and dad we turn to when we're in trouble or can't find the answer to a question.
Maurice J. Dubois
#73. I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misinterpret things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it! - Don't turn the light on!
Tennessee Williams
#74. This was the elasticity and permanence of parental love; everything vile about your children was to some degree something vile about yourself, and disowning your child for their failings could only compound your own.
Jennifer DuBois
#75. I think the only way to properly face doom is to be on time.
Jennifer DuBois
#76. Figuring out our gifts in life is part of our journey to becoming enlightened human beings.
Allison DuBois
#78. Embrace whatever you're feeling. Whatever mask you have on right now, is okay. You're entitled to feel.
Ellen DuBois
#79. She never had to learn to live in a world that didn't necessarily want to go easy on her.
Jennifer DuBois
#80. Maybe this had been something like the colour blindness of the ancient Greeks, before words had ushered in vision - we do not see that which we have no language to understand.
Jennifer DuBois
#81. There wasn't a single cell in our bodies that was the same as the day we were born, and yet we were still held responsible for everything all of our formers selves had ever done.
Jennifer DuBois
#82. Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.
Gabrielle Dubois
#83. But we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears; the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#84. Thinking more than a move ahead never got me anywhere in life. Only in chess. And even then it was sometimes a burden. I saw fifteen moves ahead once, in Norway, but there was a much easier path to victory, and I missed it. Looking into the future too hard, I've found can be paralyzing.
Jennifer DuBois
#85. The ability to communicate scorn should be the true test of fluency in any language.
Jennifer DuBois
#86. If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you.
Allison DuBois
#87. an isolated blood sugar number has absolutely no value whatsoever, no matter how accurate it is. But even a less-than-accurate number in context has the power to save your life.
William Lee Dubois
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