Doe Quotes

A violent wind does not last for a whole morning.

Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.

He does not seek glory - yet people respect him.

Nature does not have to insist.

A good speaker does not stutter.

He does not seek power - yet people follow him.

Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded of them, but it is in their nature.

He who walks on tip-toe does not walk on solid ground.

He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop.

He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.

Getting back to inflation, it is important to note that the producer price Index does not reflect wage pressures - and that is where the inflation threat really lies.

You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date--one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone.

When you eat pure food that isn't genetically modified, your physical and mental state does improve and it's worth the effort to make that happen.

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

...you don't need ghosts to be haunted. Memory does that just fine without any supernatural help at all.

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.

You ask yourself "What is love? Am I in love?", when what you should be asking is, "What is not love?", ma petite. What is it that this man does for you that is not done out of love?

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

What you call love does not sound very beautiful.

What does my soul look like to you?' 'I couldn't reduce it to words if I tried, but its beauty is unsurpassed.

That's what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable - and all the time we're being carved, and shaped, and whittled away.

But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.

Death is funny, when you think about it. Everybody does it, but nobody knows how, exactly how.

This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.

If Trump takes an aggressive anti-Iranian stand, I suspect it will complicate his relations with Russia; how much so, depends on what else Trump does, particularly about participation in NATO.

There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.

Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.

Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.

For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.

God just has his own agenda, and he does what he wants to do with stuff.

There are no 'holds.' Everyday you're either willing to buy more at the current price, or, if you aren't, you should redeploy the capital to something you believe does deserve incremental capital.

When you go through life, when you go through different things, you take risks, you question yourself. I think everybody does, at some point in their life, question themselves.

Defeating ISIS. If we do not defeat them abroad, we will be facing more and more of a threat at home. This does not require an occupation or an enduring ground operation.

Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?

I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever mood strikes me the way Keith Jarrett does on piano.

Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true.

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

There is a genius on one side of every trade and a dolt on the other, but which is which does not become clear until much later.

Obama really does recognize the threats that are out there; I think he understands the world. He understands the role of America in that troubled world.

The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.

What [Prozac] does is completely annihilate the sexual drive, so the question of passion hardly arises.

True, the free market ignores the poor precisely as it does not recognize the wealthy - it is 'no respecter of persons'

We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.

He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.

If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline and eventually collapse. There is no middle ground