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We should constantly be reminded of what we owe in return for what we have.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Spring had come to Washington. The cherry blossoms were in bloom. Yet the glacial mood of the capital refused to melt. Accusations
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
The sad and poignant thing for Johnson, however, was not his anti-intellectualism in itself but his need to be accepted by the very people he scorned.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
When he first returned to the Badlands in the summer of 1884, the austere landscape seemed to mirror his melancholy.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
What is a hero without love for mankind.
— Doris Lessing
I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.
— Doris Day
I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to ...
— Doris Lessing
If you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.
— Doris Lessing
The difficulty of writing about sex, for women, is that sex is best when not thought about, not analysed.
— Doris Lessing
When there's a war, people get married.
— Doris Lessing
Still, slander against the president and first lady continued to fill the columns of opposition papers.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I've just always loved animals.
— Doris Day
In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog.
— Doris Roberts
Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.
— Doris Lilly
Democracy is not something we have. It's something we do.
— Doris "Granny D" Haddock
I don't even like parties.
— Doris Day
I haven't got the energy to write now.
— Doris Lessing
She could not see what good it would do anyone to read a novel of this kind. Yet she was writing it.
— Doris Lessing
It is not too much to say that when the word "blood" is pronounced, this is a sign that reason is about to depart.
— Doris Lessing
The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.
— Doris Lessing
Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.
— Doris Lessing
If what we think now is different from what we thought then, we can take it for granted that what we think in a year will be different again.
— Doris Lessing
The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.
— Doris Lessing
Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!
— Doris Lessing
We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always.
— Doris Lessing
As S. S. McClure well understood, the "vitality of democracy" depends on "popular knowledge of complex questions." At
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Dance form is logical, but it is all in the realm of feeling, sensitivity and imagination ...
— Doris Humphrey
What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
— Doris Lessing
I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I'm tired of being thought of as Miss Goody Two-Shoes ... the girl next door, Miss Happy-Go-Lucky.
— Doris Day
Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
She wanted to be acknowledged, her predicament given its value.
— Doris Lessing
Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.
— Doris Egan
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
— Doris Lessing
I don't know if I want to get married again.
— Doris Day
A lot of times when people are on campaigns, it can be like a movie set.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Every child has the capacity to be everything.
— Doris Lessing
There are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.
— Doris Lessing
In order to "win a man to your cause," Lincoln explained, you must first reach his heart, "the great high road to his reason.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.
— Doris Lessing
We need a shape for the tale. A beginning, a middle and an end.
— Doris Lessing
My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.
— Oscar Levant
An adult friend of Lincoln's: Life was to him a school.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Republican Robert La Follette of Wisconsin had defied the machine to become governor by waging war on the railroads that ruled his state.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I like sunny stories. You know, my favorite girls in the '50s were Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, and Esther Williams.
— Edward Herrmann
Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Paul was even more difficult than Ben. But he was a normal "disturbed" child, not an alien.
— Doris Lessing
Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
— Doris Lessing
SUCCESS: IS THE UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE OF LIFE AND WHAT IT BRINGS.. Doris Day said:What will be will be. =)
— A. R D.D M.G.
People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that,
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.
— Doris Lessing
One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, had made both sides see themselves as they are.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
It seems to me that ideas must flow through humanity like tides.
— Doris Lessing
Immediately allayed his fears, he gratefully recalled, by the raillery
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
The United States paid $7.5 million for the lands, which were divided into small parcels and sold to natives, creating a new landowning class.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Roosevelt declared, arguing that the insistence upon having only the perfect cure often results in securing no betterment whatever.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not.
— Doris Roberts
I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives.
— Doris Roberts
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
— Doris Lessing
Roosevelt had defined the public interest in the previously private struggle between labor and capital.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Laughter is by definition healthy.
— Doris Lessing
Arguing with a fool proves there are two.
— Doris M. Smith
Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and then wait to come forward.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.
— Doris Lessing
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
— Doris Lessing
The meanest man in the world," he remarked, "is the man who forgets the old friends that helped him on an early day and over early difficulties.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.
— Doris Lessing
The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.
— Doris Lessing
You can only value something if you've experienced it.
— Doris Lessing
I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
The thing is, I haven't changed at all.
— Doris Lessing
Through the last days of May and the early days of June, Eleanor
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Still, Roosevelt noted, it was "not always easy to strike the just middle," and he inevitably made mistakes.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I loved all those Doris Day visuals of her being a tomboy and then changing into this gorgeous girl in a ballgown.
— Stella McCartney
What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.
— Doris Lessing
I do not like hardness of heart, but neither do I like softness of head.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin