Doe Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.

I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event you are not even a failure. You're just not there.

The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.

When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.

Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary.

The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.

Dialogue does not happen when we are adversaries.

Look at my face. Does it look like I can take a good hit?

I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean?

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.

Why does one need a doctor if God has given us our body and we pray to Him for our help?

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

Rumi is one of the great spokesmen for the Quranic instruction teaching that all prophets come from God and God does not create one religion, but many religions.

America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.

He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.

One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things but moves in harmony with the present moment.

A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.

A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as long as we accept the values that determine it.

Love does not end when we don't see each other.

Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.

Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.

I work hard, like I'm sure everyone else does, and I'm very honest with the work I do.

Time does us violence; it is the only violence.

The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content.

It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics.

I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English.

God does not look at your outer forms, but at the love within your love.

I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.

Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.

Quentin [Tarantino] is a filmmaker who really dives into things very seriously and deeply. And when he does interviews, he really wears his heart on his sleeve and he doesn't hold anything back.

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

How much hair product does it take to get those spikes?

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

Hey, ah, does anyone want a cookie or something? Oh yeah. A cookie. That would make everything better. Dunked in a shot of tequila , maybe? Or better yet, just the bottle? Yeah, that ought to do it.

He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.

It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.

I think the sense of belonging does give you a certain amount of mental satisfaction.

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.