Doe Quotes

Maybe nothing will ever change for us,” he said. “But don’t you want to be around just in case it does?

Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance.

Misfortune does not help us to believe.

...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.

Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.

The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.

Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.

I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it's a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work.

History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles. -P 462 Master Tozay to Eona

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

Solitude offers a lot that being coupled or being in a group does not. It helps us learn what we are capable of.

There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.

I have found it helpful to say a prayer asking to understand the scriptures when I read them. Then I ask, "What does Heavenly Father want me to learn from this scripture?" He always helps.

Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one become a prophet?"]

Crabgrass is aptly descriptive of this hated weed, for it does scuttle quickly through a lawn.

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value.

I don't think Kant's approach to religion is any longer viable in its original form. But that does not mean it is simply wrong or that we cannot learn from it.

Kant does not regard freedom as an item of faith because it is too basic to our agency to be related to any end.

Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose?

One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

There is no one, however wicked, whom Mary does not save by her intercession when she wishes ... He who has recourse to Mary shall be saved.

All that [replacing of fat] does is lead to dissatisfaction and I think that dissatisfaction results in overeating.

Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much to sharpen life, and thereby render it more alive.

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

Somebody who's passionate about life and does their own thing.

Wendy!” Finn shouted pulling me from my moment with Loki. “What are you doing? You’re married. And not to him.” “Nothing slips by you does it.” Loki asked.

[To organize a school] looks much more difficult in theory than it does in practice.

True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.

Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change.

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

Spirituality does not lie in meditating on the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.

In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.

Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.

How bad does it have to be before you do something about it?

When Death laughs, no one else does

God does love you and that, hopefully, you get to the point that you realize that having a relationship with God should be first and foremost in your life.

There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.

There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.

Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.

The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”

Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.

It is restful to leave one's home; not because traveling does not entail varied and difficult daily actions, but because it removes our responsibilities.