Doe Quotes

Today's scientific question is: What in the world is electricity? And where does it go after it leaves the toaster?

Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.

What good does it do to ban some guns. All guns should be banned.

One of the fundamental conditions of happiness is to know that everything that one does has a meaning in eternity

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.

Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent. You will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very different.

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]

He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.

Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.

Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away.

Whenever a nation turns its back on God or beings to live as if He does not exist, it begins to show up in its citizens' disregard for human life.

What does it profit a 78-year-old woman to sit around the pool in a bikini if she cannot feed herself?

What difference, at this point, does it make?

The true Christian does not need to be reminded that he has a crucified Master. He often thinks of Him.

The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.

I believe in God the way my dog does

I heard 'Get Lucky'; it's just not my taste. It's great what Daft Punk does and the sound quality is great, but that whole disco vibe is not really my thing.

The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead.

Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.

Education does not necessarily make one wise?

The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.

If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly, and if there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.

It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.

Everybody's got a past. The past does not equal the future unless you live there.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

This wholesale invasion of Americans’ and foreign citizens’ privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we’re trying to protect.

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

After all, it is we who adapt to the machine. The machine does not adapt to us.

One does not set fire to a world which is already lost

The [classical] liberal, of course, does not deny that there are some superior people -- he is not an egalitarian -- but he denies that anyone has authority to decide who these superior people are.

Anyone who is aware of his environment knows that the peril of physical assault does exist, and that it exists everywhere and at all times.

I am the same kind of moron as the rest of you, it's the method that does the work, for me as well as for you.

That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.

A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

When people call me illegal, calling me illegal says more about you than it does about me.

The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of you.

Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.

If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.

Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in a city, as one loses one’s way in a forest, requires some schooling.

Our problems, all come from nothing; they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist.

How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?

I always say, or have said in the past, that ninety-nine and forty-four-hundredths of the audience does not pay any attention to the lighting, but one hundred percent is affected by it.

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.