Dorothea Dix quote: "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."

I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long,...
DOROTHEA DIX

I shall be well enough when I get to Kentucky or Alabama. The tonic I need is the tonic of oppositio...
DOROTHEA DIX

To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the youn...
DOROTHEA DIX

The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the ...
DOROTHEA DIX

What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
DOROTHEA DIX

My wish is to be known only thru my work.
DOROTHEA DIX

In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by couns...
DOROTHEA DIX

Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's misera...
DOROTHEA DIX

I have had so much at heart. Defeated, not conquered; disappointed, not discouraged. I have but to b...
DOROTHEA DIX

Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the...
DOROTHEA DIX

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and...
DOROTHEA DIX

There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, u...
DOROTHEA DIX

I was early taught by sorrow to shed tears, and now when sudden joy lights up, or any unexpected sor...
DOROTHEA DIX

Always remember those things that tend to strengthen and improve your understanding. You cannot lear...
DOROTHEA DIX

Jasmine, the name of which signifies fragrance, is the emblem of delicacy and elegance. It is reared...
DOROTHEA DIX

I shall try and effect all that is before me to perform; and God, I think, will surely give me stren...
DOROTHEA DIX

Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty....
DOROTHEA DIX

No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.
DOROTHEA DIX

A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on...
DOROTHEA DIX

They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I ...
DOROTHEA DIX

We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passiv...
DOROTHEA DIX

Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; ...
DOROTHEA DIX

The lovely daisy, so justly celebrated by European poets, is not a native of our soil; we know it we...
DOROTHEA DIX

The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beaut...
DOROTHEA DIX

Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty er...
DOROTHEA DIX

What an enthusiastic devotion is that which sends a man from the attractions of home, the ties of ne...
DOROTHEA DIX

Rules must be established and enforced, and, as numbers are increased in prisons, the necessity for ...
DOROTHEA DIX

The fact is that, in all prisons everywhere, cruelties on the one hand and injudicious laxity of dis...
DOROTHEA DIX

With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impo...
DOROTHEA DIX

My happiest hours are spent in school, surrounded by those I hope to benefit.
DOROTHEA DIX

The fabled origin of the laurel is this. Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, offended by the perse...
DOROTHEA DIX

I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, t...
DOROTHEA DIX

Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the t...
DOROTHEA DIX

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, exce...
DOROTHEA DIX

The great benefactors of individuals and of communities are the enlightened educators: the wise-teac...
DOROTHEA DIX

In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something...
DOROTHEA DIX

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
DOROTHEA DIX

The capsules of the geranium furnish admirable barometers. Fasten the beard, when fully ripe, upon a...
DOROTHEA DIX

What child has ever known the country and has not twined hundreds of fragrant wreaths with the yello...
DOROTHEA DIX

Floral emblems have been often adopted. The houses of York and Lancaster had their roses, the Bourbo...
DOROTHEA DIX

The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes
DOROTHEA DIX

I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of...
DOROTHEA DIX

I believe the best mode of aiding convicts is so to apportion their tasks in prison as to give to th...
DOROTHEA DIX

Think how slow would be your progress in learning without printed books: you could study only manusc...
DOROTHEA DIX

If we had only those things which are procured with ease and freedom from danger, we should find the...
DOROTHEA DIX

It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you ...
DOROTHEA DIX

I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.
DOROTHEA DIX

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toi...
DOROTHEA DIX

While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the incitements of hope, in p...
DOROTHEA DIX

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, exce...
DOROTHEA DIX

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something...
DOROTHEA DIX

Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!
DOROTHEA DIX

But the truth is the highest consideration.
DOROTHEA DIX

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.
DOROTHEA DIX

Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as th...
DOROTHEA DIX

As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no retu...
DOROTHEA DIX

Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.
DOROTHEA DIX

All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, an...
DOROTHEA DIX

Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and t...
DOROTHEA DIX

Life is not to be expended in vain regrets. No day, no hour, comes but brings in its train work to b...
DOROTHEA DIX

I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties ar...
DOROTHEA DIX

People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not...
OTTO DIX

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is t...
DOROTHY DIX

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years after...
OTTO DIX

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
OTTO DIX

I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reaso...
OTTO DIX

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is ...
OTTO DIX

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I'...
OTTO DIX

I will either be famous or infamous.
OTTO DIX

Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary...
OTTO DIX

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beaut...
OTTO DIX

You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.
DOROTHY DIX

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that mak...
DOROTHY DIX

This indicates, I think, the end product of a culture of cover-up and an inability of the ministry t...
ADRIAN DIX

They need to be called to account. They need to explain. It is not good enough to say the job is har...
ADRIAN DIX

What we've seen over the last few years in response to this case is the culture of cover up and deni...
ADRIAN DIX

We were overly ambitious . . . We just did too many things and they stretched our capacity to manage...
ADRIAN DIX

It really has been a collective effort.
ADRIAN DIX

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the b...
DOROTHY DIX

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment ...
DOROTHY DIX

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something...
DOROTHY DIX

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that mak...
DOROTHY DIX

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in...
DOROTHY DIX

I don't think that when we have congressmen making decisions on rainforests and bridges to nowhere t...
BILL DIX

I think Patrick is a fine young man, rooted in principles of limited government and standing up for ...
BILL DIX

I stand by the president and his decision to take the fight to the terrorists. Let's not forget that...
BILL DIX

I'm here tonight because I want to be your next Congressman. My last 10 years in the Iowa Legislatur...
BILL DIX

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him...
OTTO DIX

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
GEORGE DIX

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and depende...
DOROTHY DIX

There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the...
DOROTHY DIX

The problem that we're facing is not unique to Hernando County. All 67 counties in the state are fac...
DENNIS DIX

We believe in giving a doctor rehabilitation rather than throwing him on the scrap heap.
ANDREW DIX

It's about public protection. If it's possible within the context of public protection to enable the...
ANDREW DIX

I think it's fiscally irresponsible, and it ignores the evidence of light rail around the country. P...
BEVERLY DIX

We'll all be watching the vote. It's a very important vote. Hopefully, the decision will be made in ...
BEVERLY DIX

This is an important decision that affects all Clark County taxpayers.
BEVERLY DIX

Happiness is largely a matter of self-hypnotism. You can think yourself happy or you can think yours...
DOROTHY DIX

We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.
DOROTHY DIX

This is definitely one step, but there are many questions that have been raised by the trial that ha...
PAMELA DIX

To serve someone a citation, you have to do it in person. If it?s an absentee landlord, it?s cost pr...
LOUISE DIX

If these [motions] are going to be seriously pursued there is a lot to be resolved.
GEORGE DIX

It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.
DOROTHY DIX

There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs ...
DOROTHY DIX

The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads
DOROTHY DIX

We just gave up too many points in the first half. The second half we just wanted to come out and pr...
RYAN DIX

He's a great kid. He's sacrificed a lot for our program, and is only going to get better as a player...
JOE DIX

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that make...
DOROTHY DIX

So many persons think divorce a panacea for every ill, who find out, when they try it, that the reme...
DOROTHY DIX

Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.
DOROTHY DIX

Well, there is some priority decision-making that will have to be done by the board when we re-adopt...
DENNIS DIX

The problem is that the costs are accelerating faster than our fees are accelerating.
DENNIS DIX

It's possible something Ellis said out of court might be used not only against him but Mr. DeLay. Th...
GEORGE DIX

My judgment is that simply because a prosecutor decides that one approach is more effective than ano...
GEORGE DIX

This is serious stuff. They have obviously upped the ante.
GEORGE DIX

I think we?re very frustrated because we haven?t been able to get our hands around the problem to de...
LOUISE DIX

Our bark is worse than our bite, and people know it.
LOUISE DIX

They've been looking at him for a couple of years and I think where they want to play him will be go...
JOE DIX

We just couldn't make shots. They made them and we didn't.
JOE DIX

It's just evolved every year. It's almost at the point where (the win total) can't be broken unless ...
JOE DIX

We will definitely earn it this year, not that we didn't in the past. But with this team and some of...
JOE DIX

I thought both guys did a great job of stepping up when the team needed them. You couldn't have aske...
JOE DIX

I also thought Walter was much more aggressive than the last few games and showed the things he can ...
JOE DIX

Our intensity on defense was much, much better. I thought we responded well as a team after the loss...
JOE DIX

Lee Coleman was the difference (between Saturday and Tuesday). Anybody who thinks he's not valuable ...
JOE DIX

We had a nice run (with the streak) but it's not the main thing. That's for the fans to enjoy. What ...
JOE DIX

I think everyone saw (tonight) just how important Lee is to this team. We had guys handling the ball...
JOE DIX

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
DOROTHEA LANGE

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Old habits are strong and jealous.
DOROTHEA BRANDE

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see ...
DOROTHEA LANGE

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
DOROTHEA LANGE

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impos...
DOROTHEA BRANDE

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.
DOROTHEA BRANDE

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
DOROTHEA BRANDE

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.
DOROTHEA BRANDE

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
DOROTHEA BRANDE

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
DOROTHEA BRANDE

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
DOROTHEA BRANDE

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
DOROTHEA BRANDE

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.
DOROTHEA BRANDE

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any ...
DOROTHEA BRANDE

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
DOROTHEA BRANDE

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.
DOROTHEA BRANDE

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
DOROTHEA LANGE

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own...
DOROTHEA LANGE

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of d...
DOROTHEA MACKELLAR

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.
DOROTHEA BRANDE

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
DOROTHEA LANGE

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twin...
DOROTHEA KENT

The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized...
DOROTHEA BRANDE

The author of genius does keep till his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a c...
DOROTHEA BRANDE

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impo...
DOROTHEA BRANDE

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.
DOROTHEA BRANDE

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impos...
DOROTHEA BRANDE

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate...
DOROTHEA LANGE

I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that...
DOROTHEA LANGE

A photograph is a portrait painted by the sun
DOROTHEA LANGE

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own ...
DOROTHEA LANGE

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes ...
DOROTHEA LANGE

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, an...
DOROTHEA BRANDE

Hands off! I do not molest what I photograph, I do not meddle and I do not arrange.
DOROTHEA LANGE

This benefit of seeing... can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening ...
DOROTHEA LANGE

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
DOROTHEA LANGE

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impos...
DOROTHEA BRANDE

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
DOROTHEA LANGE

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we...
DOROTHEA LANGE

They can't take whatever these people have under them and say I'm gonna sell because we're not makin...
DOROTHEA PALE

At all, and that's what scares me. The City and County is not responding to us at all. We're not goi...
DOROTHEA PALE

We do not intend to close down our operations or withdraw. We are absolutely committed to pursuing o...
DOROTHEA KRIMITSAS

We are not withdrawing our staff and we are still present in all the Palestinian territories, both l...
DOROTHEA KRIMITSAS

These images are extremely shocking to us.
DOROTHEA KRIMITSAS

We are shocked and dismayed at the mistreatment and abuse displayed in these images.
DOROTHEA KRIMITSAS

The type of treatment in these images -- video or photos -- very clearly violates the rules of inter...
DOROTHEA KRIMITSAS

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
DOROTHEA LANGE

The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that'...
DOROTHEA LANGE

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
DOROTHEA LANGE

I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
DOROTHEA LANGE

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
DOROTHEA LANGE

If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
JOHN A. DIX

Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK

The most important thing I learned is that to be truly happy, you've got to pay attention to that st...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK

Part of the rationale for that is not that we're growing in population, but that we have one school ...
DOROTHEA A. SHANNON

We've got some time and we have to use that time and our resources wisely.
DOROTHEA A. SHANNON

We anticipate that we will see anywhere from 600 to 1,200 new students. Just in recent days we have ...
DOROTHEA A. SHANNON

We just recently finished a facilities study and that will go a long way with preparing us.
DOROTHEA A. SHANNON

All our new teachers are pretty evenly distributed between elementary and secondary schools.
DOROTHEA A. SHANNON

This is a new program and I think it is one that is needed in the county to train our young people.
DOROTHEA A. SHANNON

I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island,...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK

What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother's house. When my mother passed...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK

And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats,...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK

If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice ...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK

I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I d...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I hav...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK

My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, an...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK

I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK

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.

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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.

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