Doe Quotes

A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies.

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.

To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and cannot exist - all this is but the beginning of wisdom.

Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it's a transfiguration of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned.

God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them.

Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic.

The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

A spiritual Christian therefore is one whose spirit is led by God's Spirit... Perhaps their speech does convey truth, but without the quickening of the Holy Spirit even truth is of small advantage.

For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.

No, our greatness does not come from our government.

Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?

Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.

Managing brands is going to be more and more about trying to manage everything that your company does.

Everything a brand does is advertising.

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]

The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.

The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.

If we're being unilateral, then communication does not happen, the relationship does not happen.

How does a man know when he's taking the last steps of his life?

Why does merely attempting to understand Reality so often seem to lead to going insane?

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything.

Where lies our salvation? You asked. We do not need any salvation. Does not our end lie on this beginning shore?

Why does one exist? That's not my problem. One does exist. The thing to do is to take no notice but go at it on the run and to keep on going right on until you die.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.

What does the vice president do?

I tend to gravitate toward the more powerful roles. As opposed to the doe-eyed girl who bats her eyelashes and runs around in towels, you now what I mean? Because that kind of makes me want to vomit.

Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.

Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself.

Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.

You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next?

Being patient does not mean being silent.

The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

Freedom does not mean license.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.

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You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.

He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry?