Doe Quotes

The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.

It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?

When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.

There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.

The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.

[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute . . .

Does there exist a single instance of a saint asserting that he himself possessed the gift of miracles?

Whatever the lady does is wrong. I do not know of a single right decision taken by her.

Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture.

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.

We have to argue forcefully and demand that the government recognise that these programmes do not prevent - mass surveillance does not prevent acts of terrorism.

We have the right of revolution. Revolution does not always have to be weapons and warfare; it's also about revolutionary ideas.

Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.

A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.

That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.

Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.

Easy does it is what I'm looking for.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.

A real collector does not sell.

In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical and it does not advance the plot, it gets dropped.

A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection.

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.

I really don't teach the way Professor [Frank Moore] Cross does. I don't teach the text the same way he does. I teach Biblical themes, Biblical events.

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.

No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.

In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.

The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.

No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom or growth upon anyone just for showing up.

If humanity does not evolve spiritually - each one of us and collectively - our species won't make it. So following that back to each individual - every day you are faced with choices.

This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are.

I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands. For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else.

There is no language that love does not speak.

a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

Why does naming a thing give it so much power?

It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know.

Life does not always gives us the choices that we want

What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.

The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.

What does it take to get you to the point where you have to kill your brother? It's biblical, it's huge. It's so personal.

When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person.

I had a terror-since September -I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground-because I am afraid.

I've always been intrigued by the power of secrets. When is it justifiable to keep them from the ones we love? And does keeping them irrevocably change who we are?

It's not the nineteenth century; I'm not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting down on the floor with a lemon and a bucket of vinegar does not make me a better person.

I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part.

I am against lying, but just because someone asks a question does not mean you have to answer it.