#doings

There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare. ↗

— Finley Peter Dunne

#back #being #doings #good #might

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. ↗

— Alice Koller

#achievement #alone #aware #because #being

(A murderer about their victim:) "He was an expert in vicarious death. I should like to have been there to see how he enjoyed the real thing. ↗

— P.D. James

#murder #vicarious-doings #death

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#act #awake #comparison #doings #dream

A man is accountable to no person for his doings. ↗

— James Otis

#doings #his #man #person

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

#doings #evil #history #human #human history

People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#adventure #audience #hollywood #movement #movies

When you open your mouth, listeners are offended.  When you close your mouth, the expectant are offended.  If a person seeks misdoing from you they will find it regardless of whether or not you deliver.  ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#offense #richelle #richelle-goodrich #richelle-goodrich

Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country. ↗

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

#changes #come #country #doings #everyone