Doe Quotes

I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly.

A true masterpiece does not tell everything.

Faced with the way the system does you in the 'hood sometimes, if you don't literally get out, your chances are slim. You'll definitely die mentally. You'll pretty much die physically.

The easiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within an organization is to pretend it does not exist.

Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.

Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.

If the President does it, it can't be illegal.

The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it.

It is a singular characteristic of love that we cannot hide it where it exists, or pretend it where it does not exist.

The mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.

One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.

God does not offer us a way out of the testings of life. He offers us a way through, and that makes all the difference.

The fact that somebody does good doesn't make their beliefs true.

God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.

Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.

When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe.

Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word?

It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?

All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.

I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read.

Christ always calls us to life and constantly to greater joy, but rarely does He call us to comfort.

I regard texture similar to the function of taste buds in our mouths. But in a visual form. Texture does create a specific flavour which affects our senses.

Who will reach heaven? I do not know, but I am certain that no one will be there who does not feel at home.

What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.

I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.

Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.

Usually when the opposing team does well, the crowd quiets down. All I began to hear was a chant 'L-S-U, L-S-U.' It got louder and louder and louder. It was the loudest I've ever heard a stadium.

Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.

Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.

When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie.

Remember that whatever anyone does, it is an effort to meet a need.

It’s sad, y’know, what money does to people.

Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.

The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces.

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful.

The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.

Does fuzzy logic tickle?

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.

I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.