Doe Quotes
A treasure does not always contribute to the political security of its possessors. It rather invites attack, and very seldom is faithfully applied to the purpose for which it was destined.
The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.
Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts.
Seat belts come with a car so therefore you should be required to use them, but a helmet does not come with the bike.
The intellect is not the means of creation, and creation does not take place through the functioning of the intellect; on the contrary, there is creation when the intellect is silent.
And while some healing does happen, it isn't a healing of redemption or epiphany. It's more like the slow absorption of a bruise.
Just to set the record straight, a salary for a given on-screen performance does not include the right to invade anyone’s privacy, to destroy someone’s sense of self.
The citizen does not so much vote for a candidate as make a psychological purchase of him.
All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.
National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.
Turns out, Down syndrome is the most common genetic disorder, occurring once in every 800 births, and no one really knows why it happens. It just does.
A being whose activities are associated with others has a social environment. What he does and what he can do depend upon the expectations, demands, approvals, and condemnations of others.
The fact that we live in a world that moves crisis by crisis does not make a growing interest in outdoor activities frivolous, or ample provision for them unworthy of the nation's concern.
What is first love worth, except to prepare for a second? What does second love bring? Only regret for the first.
Death, it seems," Garp wrote, "does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.
It being our duty to mortify... we must be at work. He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the other ceases living, does but half his work.
In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.
Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.
Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?
In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.
Did you really JUST fall, Jeffrey? Why does everybody in my family talk in these dramatic CAPITAL LETTERS all the time? Why am I the only calm one?
Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.
Your worth as a person does not come from what you are paid. It comes from who you are and what you give.
Fairness does not consist so much of everybody's doing the same thing, but of everybody's being willing to do something that others don't want to do.
Electronic music, for me, has been the only real pioneering music that actually does push boundaries and is constantly futuristic.
