Doe Quotes
Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?
Every Iraqi would I know would rather have Saddam back... I mean like... that does not even take rocket science.
Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in Pakistan, we're spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?
Judging by your performance at the Olympics, it don't look too bright for your future does it!
When you are sitting in a room and somebody does something or says something and a thought comes, an idea or a melody - you have to just grab it while it's there because it will go away.
What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.
Happiness does not depend on your circumstances; it depends on your will. It's a choice that you make.
The question is not, 'Do you have a problem?' The question is, 'Does the problem have you?'
Just because something didn't work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.
We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.
Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.
It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.
Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.
The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.
I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.
Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.
He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.
Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.
One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.
Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.
If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.
Deceit is the mark of evil. Even if the evil messenger does not appear in person, the test is the same.
We go through these metamorphous just like a caterpillar does before becoming a butterfly and the middle of that metamorphosis it always feels uncomfortable.
I don't know if humor has a place for it but being light hearted does and not to take it too seriously.
So time doesn't count, and place does?' I said this to tease her. When I was a man, I liked teasing her and she went along with it, consenting, for it reminded us both of a sadness that had passed.
Just because you have a right to do something in America does not mean it is the right thing to do.
I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal.
How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.
Look behind you: What have you learned? Look around you: What is happening to others? Look above you: What does God expect of you? Look besides you: What resources are available to you?
This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at the outset lead to some valuable conclusions.
In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.
Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.
In all of its vulnerability, profound sincerity does, in its relationship to knowledge, find its way.
In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.
It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.
I'm pretty resigned to the fact that I never hear music the way anyone else does, and I no longer find it surprising.
One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.