Doe Quotes

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

No supernatural can exist for the mankind that does not want to believe it.

Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen.

Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.

He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.

Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.

Activity does not necessarily equal progress.

Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.

We notice the person who is for ever bowing and fussily servile, and perhaps say, How humble he is! But the truly humble person escapes notice: the world does not know him.

Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to.

The deliberate expansion of means and methods does not automatically bring a new dimension of value.

I'll just let the hair speak for itself. It's got a Twitter account, so it actually does more speaking than I probably do on Twitter.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

It's always a really great thing to have an actor that does make you want to up your game. It naturally motivates you to do and try things that maybe you wouldn't necessarily do or try.

It's not a British attitude to dedicate yourself to such an extent as he [Wilkinson] does... He is such a dedicated so-and-so who only thinks about booting it over the posts

Just because I don't understand god's plans does not mean that he is not with me.

Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.

Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!

My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act.

Space does for comics what time does for film!

Dust does rise, doesn't it? And so can I.

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

What Messi does is terrifying. It's indescribable magic. You can't analyze it.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

Change does not take time - it takes commitment.

No soul willfully does wrong.

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy

It does not matter how the facts occur in life. It matters how they are told.

You have to look inside yourself and you have to say, well, what am I about? Why does anyone need this? Why does anyone need a 'Tom Ford' jacket? What do I believe in?

However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is some assurance that the analysis is actually relevant.

I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

Life does not hurt nearly as much if we have learned to listen to ourselves and to recognize how fully and richly we are trying to tell ourselves the truth.

The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea.

The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.