Doe Quotes

One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.

She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.

Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?

Doctrine does matter.

Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.

Surely He does not give us hearts so we may spend our lives ignoring them.

I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.

Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?

But she's not, and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention?

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

No matter what Donald Trump does, he's guaranteed to have support from the Republican Party.

I don't hate it. It does no good to hate something you can't change.

All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective - it does!

It is good to say it aloud: 'Nothing has happened.' Once again: 'Nothing has happened.' Does that help?"

Existence does not listen to your desires, and does not follow your desires, however beautiful and however pious. Existence goes on in its own way.

If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself.

Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments: do this, don't do that.

Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

Society does not love its unmaskers.

It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it leaves us where we were. It names things, but does not add things.

Necessity does everything well.

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

There's a sense of urgency that the president does not possess, that there is a 9/11 in the making.

America does not need to continue to have regime change throughout the world, nation-building.

If Americans were attacked, it does change the equation. The problem is, is that with regard to this is there've been horrendous killings of civilians with conventional weapons.

If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.

It is not enough to be busy we must be productive. Everyone can account for every hour of the day but that does not mean anything was accomplished of value.

If she doesn't really love you, then it's over. And if she does love you, then love will win out.

Complaining does not work as a strategy.

[Wynton] Marsalis does not aspire to be an innovator, no one else is allowed to have new ideas either.

I would be an idiot to say comedy is easy, but it does come naturally. It never feels forced.

What Sri Chinmoy does is God-given! He has a tremendous, a fantastic creative urge.

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

The Kantian philosophy is no more than at best a half-secularized version of such a theocratic ethics, with "Reason" in the place of God. This does not amount to much more than a change of names.

That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.

Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read.

There is nothing more frightening than the faces of people whom one does not know but who seem to know one, and be amused by one.

When you look at "American Crime" and you have the character Terri LaCroix is a pharmaceutical executive - why does that character always have to be white?

I don't think about, "How does this song that has more of an electronic mix prefix to a song that has a full orchestra next to a song that has other things?" I just work on it as-needed.

Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.

Whenever a church does anything for its own group, it has that right.

God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist.

God does not challenge weak people - he has laid this upon me and I'm not going to question it.

And that does concern me, because we're not getting enough back for our taxes that we're paying. I think we really have to look at the whole sort of area.