Doe Quotes

The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the truth, if he does then he should be worshiped.

What does [Hillary] Clinton do if she loses? Concede? Blame the Russians? Or the FBI?

Does Donald Trump accept the results and concede graciously, pursue legal action, or tell his followers to take to the streets?

What works in one medium does not necessarily always work in the other.

When one does something, one must go back to the ancients.

The heart does not lie.

There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.

One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.

The world is a better place because Saddam Hussein does not in Iraq.

He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.

The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.

The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.

Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?

No one is as good and merciful as the Lord. But even He does not forgive the unrepentant.

Where is the stretch? Where is the perfect fit? Where does it make sense? You have to be a Baryshnikov.

A wise man does nothing by constraint.

If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

I saw all of the films [based on The Tempest] available, including the one with Helen Mirren in which Prospero is Prospera - you wonder, "Would it work?" But it does, because anything she does works.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.

Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.

Mind does dominate body. We are superior to the house in which we dwell.

I don't know what you two are up to," Hobart said. "But you be careful now, you hear? Don't do anything I wouldn't do." "Well now, that doesn't restrict us very much, does it?" Mark teased back.

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.

democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.

Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.

From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.

the most powerful mind is the quiet mind. It is the mind that is present, reflective, mindful of its thoughts and its state. It doesn't often multitask, and when it does, it does so with a purpose.

History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.

The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.

The masculine DOES while the feminine IS. Major in the feminine, but minor in the masculine.

If we come to see that this world does not have the final word, then we open our mind and therefore our entire lives to experience the possibility of infinite possibilities.

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.

Yes, hardships come. But I see in my life and in the lives of others how often something that does not have to be held as a hardship is dealt with by the mind as though it is.

Faith is a devout belief in what one does not understand.

Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does.

There is no one who does not represent a danger to someone.

He loves you, really he does. He'd love you even if it destroyed him. He matches you.

Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.

Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it.

When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

It stirs up envy, fame does.

Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true.

...if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle.

The French debt will remain massive. Savings should be made with cuts to the generous social system, which grants illegal immigrants the same protections as it does our citizens.