Doe Quotes

Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.

I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.

The American oligarchy increasingly has less in common with the American people than it does with the equivalent oligarchies in Germany or Mexico or Japan.

Chaos, if it does not harden into a pattern of disorder, may be more fruitful than a regularity too easily accepted and a success too easily achieved.

In companies, there are three activities that should be labeled better. First there is the "CORE" which is the thing the company does that its customers pay it to do.

However, there's nothing more inspiring than a company that does solve problems and those problems are captured as part of a larger story.

Does my new feminism make me look fat?

The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

I want to ask him if it’s possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?

Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.

I don't have much interest in writing if there are not opportunities to crack open the inherited forms. The writing I love to read most does this as well. I'm a form junkie.

Oh God, Oh God we’re all gonna die doesn’t really fit the definition of banter, now does it?

We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.

No one knows ish about ish, though some ish does get much closer to the real ish.

It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.

If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself.

Does he behave in rude or improper ways?" "He's a Bowman. We don't know any better.

Janie. Does not like. To be called. Buffy.

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

Ignoring a problem does not make it go away. In fact, it can simmer away beneath the surface and lead to poor mood and energy levels, and can also cause your moods to become unstable.

Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I go back and forth on that question.

History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.

You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp itsseat, and rule in its stead.

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.

Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm, that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.

When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.

At what time does the dissipation of energy begin?

Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?

Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.

To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me.

Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me.

Cognitive science is a rapidly developing area, so it could be that there are some surprises around the corner. That does seem to be kind of where the trend line is leading.

It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he prints the paper.

We earn what we get - most of us - and, sweet heaven help us! we get it. God does not always pay on Saturday - but He Pays.

A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it.

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done.

Fortunately, like all good things, Christmas Day does come to an end.

... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.

It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

Tears don't hurt like the ache does.

I just hope that the democratic will of the Zimbabwean people prevails. If it does we must move quickly to help restore stability and prosperity.

The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live.

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a woman.

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.