Doris Lessing Quotes

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

Doris Lessing

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013

Topics

FeelingFalseBecauseSentimentality

I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.

Joanna Garcia

GoodMistakesGood FortuneFortune

Americans like to get rich fast. That this means we go broke fast, too, is something that we have become very good at forgetting. Our ignorance of history is matched only by our unfailing optimism; it's actually part of our optimism.

Jill Lepore

GoodHistoryIgnoranceOptimismRich

House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it.

John Boehner

BorderStrongImmigrationSecurity

Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.

Robert Scoble

WorkFamilyHappyWeekYouNice

This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.

John Quincy Adams

PowerManConnectedObedienceDuty

Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.

St. Jerome

ActionNameWithoutMeaninglessWho

There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about.

Sinead O'Connor

PastWantNothingWriteAbout

Normally, I am a vocal advocate for 'looking both ways' and 'knowing the size of one's own body.' But working, socialising and simply running errands in Manhattan, means I am bound to break my own rules on occasion.

Sloane Crosley

I AmLookingBodyRulesKnowingOwn

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

Roger Moore

PeaceWorldLuxuryEasySitDebts

The message I always received was God is good. You're bad. Try harder. I pretty much kept my hand up at anything that represented God.

Judge Reinhold

GoodGodYouBadHandTry

I hate cars.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Hate

I like to wear sleeves because they cover up my arms.

Jordin Sparks

UpWearBecauseArmsLikeCover

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