Doe Quotes
Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.
He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.
Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.
The reason why Donald Trump does have a very strong base of popularity is he's an authentic person and not necessarily a politician.
When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?
Other countries have access to the markets, whereas Greece does not. Therefore, we have to get liquidity through the ECB.
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.
He who has got more than that is required to fulfill his basic need spends his resources, more often than not, on the people and the products that he does not actually need.
Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.
The president typically never does comment on anything involving the Supreme Court cases, Supreme Court ruling, or Supreme Court finding, typically.
Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.
It's like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn't want you, what can I do about it? I can try to help you, but if she does not want to marry you what can I do?
The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.
The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to do harm to himself.
Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.
But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.
Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.
The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.
...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.
A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.
He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
I'm a pretty happy dude, and don't let much get to me. If something does, I don't like to hold onto it.
It takes a lot of energy to be funny... for me it does. I feel like I work twice as hard when I'm doing comedy.
And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper.
If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my cash in a mattress under my bed.
The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it immoral to offer or to accept voluntary, non-sacrificial assistance.
Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.
Rarely does a candidate think ahead and take the time to understand what the hiring company's priorities are, and then carefully presents himself as a 'solution' to the company's existing gaps/needs.
Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any longer, he makes peace in himself.
You can physically move yourself around but there's that great line that Adam wrote: "Does it define for life, like print of thumb?" I think it does.
If Iran does not take steps in the near future to live up to its obligations, then the United States will not continue to negotiate indefinitely... Our patience is not unlimited.
There was a time when if you had a financial crisis in Southeast Asia somewhere, it had no impact on our markets. Today it does.