“It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.”
Source: The Dolls' House
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Rumer Godden3
English writer 1907–1998Related quotes
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
'Where Do We Go From Here?" as published in Where Do We Go from Here : Chaos or Community? (1967), p. 62; many statements in this book, or slight variants of them, were also part of his address Where Do We Go From Here?" which has a section below. A common variant appearing at least as early as 1968 has "Returning violence for violence multiplies violence..." An early version of the speech as published in A Martin Luther King Treasury (1964), p. 173, has : "Returning hate for hate multiplies hate..."
1960s
Source: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Context: The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. … Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
“I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house.”
Charles Dickens book Our Mutual Friend
Bk. I, Ch. 55
Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865)
“Sometimes leaving is the only thing you can do.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Tucker Max (1975) Internet personality; blogger; author
Action Figures http://messageboard.tuckermax.com/showpost.php?p=126574&postcount=22, <br class="br">The Tucker Max Stories
“North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.”
Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America
Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam (3 November 1969) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=2303&st=&st1= <br class="br">1960s
Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet
Nora Helmer, Act III
Variant translation: Our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls. I thought it great fun when you played with me, just as they thought it great fun when I played with them. That is what our marriage has been, Torvald.
A Doll's House (1879)
Context: But our home's been nothing but a playpen. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Papa's doll-child. And in turn the children have been my dolls. I thought it fun when you played with me, just as they thought it fun when I played with them. That's been our marriage, Torvald.