The best way to determine the Values you will enforce in your business is to clarify your personal v...
DORIS P. JOHNSON Your mission or purpose is like a magnet that keeps you moving is a well established direction
DORIS P. JOHNSON Transforming the complex to the simple is pure genius.
DORIS P. JOHNSON The kids wouldn't have let us live it down. They're psyched.
DORIS JOHNSON Nobody deserves to be shot and killed like that for no reason. This was a tragedy all around. Both m...
DORIS JOHNSON Jack Hayward is a very good team and Catholic High always come prepared to play basketball. There wi...
DORIS JOHNSON We want to continue playing well and making our presence felt. We work hard and hopefully we'll come...
DORIS JOHNSON I just want him back, I miss him so much.
DORIS JOHNSON Your business values can make you soar above the competition.
DORIS PERDUE-JOHNSON Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.
JEREMY P. JOHNSON Every man wishes to rule the world. Unfortunately, the world rules every man.
JEREMY P. JOHNSON Drugs are reality's legal loopholes.
JEREMY P. JOHNSON To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkn...
JEREMY P. JOHNSON If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want not...
JEREMY P. JOHNSON the world is conditioning our minds with violence
WILLIAM P. JOHNSON the world is conditioning your minds with violence
WILLIAM P. JOHNSON [Fats Waller's talent outstripped even his girth. He was the most celebrated of all stride pianists,...
JAMES P. JOHNSON When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and pea...
DORIS LESSING The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eigh...
DORIS LESSING Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our...
DORIS LESSING When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Sout...
DORIS LESSING When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And...
DORIS LESSING You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconcei...
DORIS LESSING When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I ha...
DORIS LESSING Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being give...
DORIS LESSING Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is...
DORIS LESSING The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty ...
DORIS LESSING Over the plains of Ethiopia the sun rose as I had not seen it in seven years. A big, cool, empty sky...
DORIS LESSING What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you ...
DORIS LESSING In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
DORIS LESSING Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is someth...
DORIS LESSING A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
DORIS LESSING Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
DORIS LESSING What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love wh...
DORIS LESSING If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lov...
DORIS DAY It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abst...
DORIS LESSING That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a ne...
DORIS LESSING Laughter is by definition healthy.
DORIS LESSING Better Counsel comes overnight.
DORIS LESSING The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!
DORIS DAY Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than ste...
DORIS LESSING Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
DORIS LESSING What is a hero without love for mankind.
DORIS LESSING Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
DORIS LESSING Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
DORIS LESSING The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
DORIS LESSING This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped....
DORIS LESSING It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
DORIS LESSING If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtl...
DORIS LESSING Pearls mean tears.
DORIS LESSING The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty...
DORIS LESSING Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
DORIS MORTMAN Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. -Doris Mortman.
DORIS MORTMAN In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
DORIS LESSING In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools
DORIS LESSING That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in ...
DORIS LESSING The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. You...
DORIS LESSING There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
DORIS LESSING You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
DORIS EGAN Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious pe...
DORIS EGAN I'm going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I'll never stop.
DORIS DAY It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housew...
DORIS DAY Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
DORIS DAY I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.
DORIS DAY In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools...
DORIS LESSING Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.
DORIS LESSING Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given...
DORIS LESSING You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.
DORIS LESSING When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang. We had to put a dance to a song...
DORIS DAY This is because Marxism looks at things as a whole and in relation to each other—or tries to, but ...
DORIS LESSING I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.
DORIS DAY The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Becaus...
DORIS LESSING If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal...
DORIS DAY I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and...
DORIS DAY Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
DORIS DAY Literature is analysis after the event.
DORIS LESSING Small things amuse small minds.
DORIS LESSING Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history canno...
DORIS LESSING I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they...
DORIS LESSING People will be able to actually walk where the villagers walked and explore the mound.
DORIS ANDERSON If they see it, and feel it in a hands-on way, that makes it fun for them.
DORIS ANDERSON One of the big hurdles to overcome is kids attitude toward science. Some kids think science is borin...
DORIS ANDERSON It's a very high-energy activity. It's a workout. By the time you finish class, you're tired.
DORIS ANDERSON The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
DORIS DAY All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to s...
DORIS LESSING The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty y...
DORIS LESSING The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
DORIS DAY In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
DORIS LESSING With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic...
DORIS LESSING Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself
DORIS LESSING What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest...
DORIS LESSING What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need...
DORIS LESSING My father was in the First World War.
DORIS LESSING This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped....
DORIS LESSING What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imaginat...
DORIS LESSING It is occasionally possible to charge Hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods th...
DORIS FLEESON The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any o...
DORIS HUMPHREY September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Am...
DORIS LESSING The kitchen table is where we mark milestones, divulge dreams, bury hatchets, make deals, give thank...
DORIS CHRISTOPHER There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement...
DORIS HUMPHREY You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing
DORIS LESSING The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.
DORIS DAY Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
DORIS LESSING You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at ...
DORIS LESSING Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that lonelines...
DORIS LESSING We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly less stupid than we are to accept truths tha...
DORIS LESSING You and I, Ella, we are the failures. We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more s...
DORIS LESSING The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
DORIS DAY All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smoo...
DORIS LESSING That is not an option I'm prepared to entertain, ... There is no place for an arbitration panel.
DORIS MEISSNER To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in.
DORIS LILLY Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.
DORIS LILLY He demolished people . . . . You either loved him or you hated him, but there was no one remotely li...
DORIS LILLY Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making money they haven't time ...
DORIS LILLY To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in.
DORIS LILLY We were in San Francisco for a long weekend. And we turned on the TV to check the weather — and the...
DORIS DAY It is heartbreaking to see so many animals in distress through the Gulf Coast region. Many of them a...
DORIS DAY It was meant for her last film.
DORIS DAY DAY: "I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the fin...
DORIS DAY Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
DORIS LESSING The idea of building a Near Eastern house in Honolulu must seem fantastic to many.
DORIS DUKE I'm tired of being thought of as Miss Goody Two-Shoes... the girl next door, Miss Happy-Go-Lucky...
DORIS DAY Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
DORIS DAY This is the icing on the cake. Nine wonderful years on Everybody Loves Raymond , and to finish it of...
DORIS ROBERTS Wow, this is the icing on the cake.
DORIS ROBERTS Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
DORIS DAY Any girl can look glamorous .... just stand there and look stupid.
DORIS DAY We were in San Francisco for a long weekend. And we turned on the TV to check the weather — and th...
DORIS DAY And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a ...
DORIS LESSING There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the...
DORIS LESSING Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fanta...
DORIS LESSING Time Bites: Views and Reviews
DORIS LESSING I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.
DORIS LESSING In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
DORIS LESSING Laughter is by definition healthy
DORIS LESSING What matters most is that we learn from living
DORIS LESSING I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't t...
DORIS LESSING We had a group picture taken with him and he also did some autographs and George signed an 'Ocean's ...
DORIS PINTER There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
DORIS LESSING I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted com...
DORIS DAY If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of suble...
DORIS LESSING The kitten was six weeks old. It was enchanting, a delicate fairy-tale cat, whose Siamese genes show...
DORIS LESSING Where others might have faltered, you rose to the occasion, ... This is not just my opinion, which I...
DORIS MEISSNER Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A wom...
DORIS DAY She spoke on various sides of the issue, ... She spoke about how deeply she cared for the child, how...
DORIS MEISSNER That's a social barrier I don't think we're ready to cross. It's two different worlds. Believe me, I...
DORIS ROBERTS The real objective here is to deter that kind of migration, ... The best way to deter is to be ready...
DORIS MEISSNER Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily col...
DORIS LESSING When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is...
DORIS ROBERTS فكري بالطريقة الخاطئة ولكن من فضلك ، فكري في نفسك في كل ...
DORIS LESSING When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publisher...
DORIS LESSING For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, ex...
DORIS LESSING أنا خطر؟ هذا الشيء الصغير الذي يسهل كسره الذي هو أنا، ا�...
DORIS LESSING If there is a Heaven, I'm sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person.
DORIS DAY I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a boo...
DORIS LESSING A hundred things to do, but only one thing to be," he said, obstinately. "But perhaps I don't feel m...
DORIS LESSING In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all bec...
DORIS LESSING I am always amazed, in myself and in other women, at the strength of our need to bolster men up. Thi...
DORIS LESSING He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intell...
DORIS LESSING ...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a ...
DORIS LESSING I have you for being normal, I hate you for it. You’re a normal human being. What right have you t...
DORIS LESSING ...We try to have things both ways. We’ve always refused to live by the book and the rule; but the...
DORIS LESSING I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flun...
DORIS LESSING I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing
DORIS LESSING Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.
DORIS LESSING Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another qui...
DORIS LESSING Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when yo...
DORIS LESSING For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integ...
DORIS LESSING I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature in...
DORIS LESSING Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say w...
DORIS LESSING People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.
DORIS LESSING I was filled with such a dangerous delicious intoxication that I could have walked straight off the ...
DORIS LESSING I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly...
DORIS LESSING How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want...
DORIS LESSING We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths ...
DORIS LESSING Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wantin...
DORIS LESSING Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
DORIS LESSING For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a w...
DORIS LESSING Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits ...
DORIS LESSING Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people...
DORIS LESSING Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish th...
DORIS LESSING You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, b...
DORIS ROBERTS I asked a member of the crew if I could have the sheets that Jon and George laid on autographed and ...
DORIS PINTER There's no magazine you open, unless its AARP, that shows a woman over the age of 45 in any othe...
DORIS ROBERTS The worse thing I could have done is to live with a man and not be married. That was the worse thing...
DORIS PAYNE It's not the fun it used to be. I'm sure I won't be there next year.
DORIS NORTHAM I told everybody all year long that we've got a good team. To me, they just seem so aggressive.
DORIS NORTHAM When I was a kid, you know, you went to church and you went to ball games. And that was your enterta...
DORIS NORTHAM It was my firm conviction, then and now, that we did the right thing on April 22, and we are doing i...
DORIS MEISSNER That told us we had to be prepared for anything.
DORIS MEISSNER found the family functioning very well as a family.
DORIS MEISSNER They need more space and they need more privacy.
DORIS MEISSNER held in virtual slavery.
DORIS MEISSNER The arguments for better immigration enforcement and controls are perfectly legitimate, and obviousl...
DORIS MEISSNER have basically used the legal migration system to their advantage.
DORIS MEISSNER The longer we do it, the bigger it grows.
DORIS MARSHALL Our aids are very committed to serving their customers. Money may be a concern but they continue to ...
DORIS MARSHALL Our budget is really tight but we will continue to explore (increasing reimbursement), but I don't k...
DORIS MARSHALL I live in a neighborhood, but all the houses are different. There are a lot of different sizes and d...
DORIS LEADBETTER I think Great Falls is an anomaly because there are so many different types of houses. It's not like...
DORIS LEADBETTER