Doe Quotes

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

Discerning placement of a comma does not atone for a spiritual coma.

Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score probably is a fraud.

Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination.

Religion disapproves of original thought the way Dracula does sunlight.

George Lopez does so much mugging, I'm surprised he's not up on charges.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

Never think negatively, for the negative thinker does a very dangerous thing. He pumps out negative thoughts into the world around him and thus activates the world negatively.

I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

Washington basically works for the corporate sector and Silicon Valley, technically at least, is suppose to sponsor initiative in creativity, whether it does or not is another question.

He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith.

Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, "Why does Jesus' word still stay around?" It's incredibly honest and it's good.

My personality does well with people who are deemed difficult. I don't know why it does but I just seem to get along with them. The more difficult the better.

I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.

He who does not mortify his palate will neither know how to mortify his flesh.

The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.

What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.

I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard.

Man does not live by GNP alone.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.

With every decisions we make, the last question we ask is what does the consumer think of this.

I've always looked to other women for inspiration and kicks. When a woman stands up and does her thing, it never ceases to excite and inspire me.

I'm not in love with David Petraeus. But I think he does present a terrific role model.

What counts in the end is what the government does.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

Death does not allow us to postpone all the things we can experience now.

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

Breaking accepted rules does bring people together.

I never ask myself how I do what I do. After all, how does it rain?

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics.

"There's a door," he whispered. "Where does it go?" "It stays where it is, I think," said Rincewind.

This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.

You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.

One of the things Wall Street does not like is ambiguity. Now that the agreement is there, it begins to make the future look a little less cloudy, and that's positively received by Wall Street.

When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there was no one there to hear it, does it - philosopically speaking - make a noise

I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together. I just cry and laugh.