Doe Quotes

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

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

No, our greatness does not come from our government.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?

The one who has wisdom in his head and heart does not need to shout at others.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out — that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse.

The amount of water on the planet does not change, only its quality.

James Watson summarizes the conclusion: “A predisposition does not a predetermination make.

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.

The thing about chemistry, it's sort of you get along with a person and then sort of if the movie does well, then you have great chemistry.

Our efforts to help the poor does not mean we're going to eradicate poverty.

Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.

Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required.

It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is paranoid and the other one is out to get him. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Does one require proof of one's own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a pre-determined job, because that's what he decided to do deliberately. But only one out of twenty does that.

The amount of "followers" you have does not make you better than anyone else. Hitler had millions. Jesus had twelve.

Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.

He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.

God does His miracles of transformation through miraculously transformed people.

Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties.

Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialize?

Anybody who rapes, and plunders, and enslaves, and steals, and drops hell bombs on people... anybody who does these things is nothing but a devil.

In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever.

A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.

Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.