Dorothy Dunnett Quote

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everyb...

The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.

I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

Gratitude turns disappointment into lessons learned, discoveries made, alternatives explored, and new plans set in motion.

There would definitely be way fewer instances of cheating, if the average couple did not have sex only when the woman feels like it.

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem....

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

The nights were mainly made for saying things you can't say tomorrow day.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...