Doe Quotes

Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?

True love does not paralyze, but doubles the high qualities of man.

The first sign of extravagance is to buy trousers that one does not need.

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

The Air Corps . . . does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating . . . funds for basic jet propulsion research and experimentation.

The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence.

Like on the airlines, they say they want to 'pre-board'. Well, what the hell is 'pre board'? What does that mean? To get on before you get on?

Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.

Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors.

When somebody does something which everybody really wants to do, then it makes everyone else try a little bit harder and strive for something better, and it's good.

The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.

Thornes whiten yet doe nothing.

Who paies the Physitian, does the cure.

Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion.

But who does hawk at eagles with a dove?

Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]

He that staies does the businesse.

Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.

If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand.

It costs more to doe ill then to doe well. [It costs more to do ill than to do well.]

It's more paine to doe nothing then something.

The arc of the celebrity phenomenon ultimately is: everything turns to dust and everything does go away.

The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.

The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers.

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist? O'Brien: Of course he exists. Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me? O'Brien: You do not exist.

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

[Opera] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths.

When I think about what fiction does morally, I'm happier thinking of a person full of multiplicities - sort of fragmented.

I think if someone could demonstrate to me that fiction did no good, I would still do it, because I think it does good for me.

What evil does first in the world, maybe, is distract us from our pursuit of goodness.

I like [Barak] Obama. I like him. So how far does rationality help to persuade anybody? You know, I'm not so sure.

Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'

I'm a big Marty Robbins fan. I love Marty Robbins. Of course, everybody does. That's not such a big shock.

[T]he course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of others. Whatever action is required, whenever action is necessary, I will defend the freedom and security of the American people.

Ours is a nation that does not seek revenge.

The United States does not torture.

When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.

Nothing radically changes when instead of human satisfaction, we think of the satisfaction of some heavenly being! God's person displaces the problem and does not abolish it.

What does it matter, all is grace.

Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?

I have seen what comes of being patient," Amanda said with a boding look. "And I have no opinion of it." "What does come of it?" Inquired Sir Gareth. "Nothing!

Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared.