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Dorothy Day Quotes

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

Dorothy Day

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 8, 1897 - November 29, 1980

Topics

Best People Believe Judge Long Say

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Jim Morrison

Friendship Friend Freedom Yourself

We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.

Andrzej Wajda

Life Culture Politics Waiting People

The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator.

John Oliver

American Media Trying Humanity Down

What about feeling sorry for those who pay the taxes? Those who are people that no one feels sorry for. They are asked to give and give until they have no more to give. And when they say 'enough,' they are called selfish.

Rush Limbaugh

People Sorry Selfish Enough Feeling

I would be so mad if I saw something called a memoir, and then it was Mike Birbiglia. It would be so infuriating. It's like, 'Who is this guy, and why does he have a memoir?' David Letterman could write a memoir. Joan Rivers could. I'm just a nobody. I'm a comedian and a writer.

Mike Birbiglia

Mad Nobody Why Write Guy Something

If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an advertisement for anything other than the work itself and for the people it's about - no 'Coca-Cola presents.'

Work People Care Never Anything

I don't want to be that parent that puts my kids into what I think they should be in, you know what I mean?

Chris Daughtry

Think Parent You Know Want Mean

Success is the freedom to do what you want, with whom you want, when you want, wherever you want.

Conan Stevens

Success Freedom You Want Wherever

The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

Conrad Black

Legal American Hands Matter Bench

I like storytelling movies and more than that I like historical movies; and I think someday I'll definitely make a movie about the past 50 years history.

Asghar Farhadi

History Past Think Movies More Like

Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel less alone. If we're reading a story that moves us, we can feel that emotion that I feel towards my father or mother or girlfriend. So they can give us late-night company.

Tim O'Brien

Father Mother Alone Reading Face

When you're allowed to tell stories with ambiguity and darkness and things that are still unresolved, that's the dream scenario as opposed to having to fit into a more procedural mode or something a little more conventional. That's not what's working on TV right now.

Marti Noxon

Darkness You Dream Now More Right