Doe Quotes

Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.

The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.

Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.

The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her.

Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.

Man does what he can, and God what he will.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms

Custom does often reason overrule.

If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.

One thing that I do ask myself when I'm in the creative process is, 'Does the world need this?'

Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there.

You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all over again. And I don’t even get to mourn.

The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.

He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.

He who knows does not feel wonder. It could not be said that God experiences wonder, for God knows in the most absolute and perfect way.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

Genius does not seem to derive any great support from syllogisms. Its carriage is free; its manner has a touch of inspiration. We see it come, but we never see it walk.

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

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

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

God doesn't do good things for us because we are good and we deserve them. He does good things for us because He is good and loves us.

Does it make more sense to provide air conditioning or to limit CO2 emissions. I vote for more air conditioning in these susceptible regions.

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

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.

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.

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.

Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.

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

Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

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.

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

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

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

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.