Doe Quotes
When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not understand that, it is very easy to be broken and to be subdued.
I don't care whether the person is guilty or not guilty. It's not my business to establish guilt or innocence. It's a court of law that does that and a jury does that, but not me.
The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?
History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves.
The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.
The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is a criminal.
Mutual fund manager performance does not persist and the return of stock picking is zero.
Does that mean," asked Mack, "that all roads will lead to you?" "Not at all," smiled Jesus..."Most roads don't lead anywhere. What it does mean is that I will travel any road to find you.
Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.
But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence
Undue enmity with enemies does not serve the interests of the system. Enemies must be dealt with wisely and prudently.
While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
She may have had enough time to deal with things. What if she does come back? What will you do?" Grant asked me. What would I do? I'd beg.
Every advance that we make for God and for His cause must be made at our inconvenience. If it does not inconvenience us at all, there is no cross in it.
Man doesnt have the patience or the power to wait. But God does. He has all eternity to accomplish His purposes.
Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility.
If he's walking around with the title, whose right and whose wrong? He's awesome. And I'm his protege, so what does that make me? That makes me awesome as well.
God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is.
To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.
The providence of God does not relieve us of our human responsibility: it doesn't call for inactivity, it calls for activity.
The key question isn't 'What is Evil?' The key question is 'When does the Good become Evil?
To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.
The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.
Davis Cup, you know, does take a lot out of you over the weekend. It's tough, especially if you play all three days.
How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?
No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends upon one's attitude towards life.
This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.
Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?
Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immoral, but the highest of morality.
What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right.
