Doe Quotes

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being.

Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.

The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was correct.

Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

For in the Third Showing when I saw that God does all that is done, I saw no sin: and then I saw that all is well. But when God showed me for sin, then said He: All SHALL be well.

A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.

True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.

No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.

The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.

Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

My life is a story about who God is and what He does in a human heart.

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.

Yeah, I want to be liked, obviously. Everybody does.

I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a short story collection does not receive the same kind of attention as a novel.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

I do need to loosen up a bit, and that usually does come with old age. That's the intention.

As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.

I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.

Happiness does not come from the things that we have but the abandoning of things that we cling to, by letting go of the attachments to things we don't want.

Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does.

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

Money does not smell of the mire whence it came; it has the glorious scent of what will be.

Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.

How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?

Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.

I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent.

Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

Opportunity does not always knock twice. You have to make some of your own opportunities and you have to go in and grab those.

You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

We must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth

I don't know if it's rare, but from my experience, I think Suits does a lot more casting off of auditions than other shows.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

John Goodman isn't fat. He's in a category beyond fat. What does one call it? Whalelike.

Ordinary human concern for human distress does not manifest itself ordinarily in the form of a gun aimed at the wallets and earnings of one's neighbors.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us' (Jn. 1:14).

I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.

A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.