Doe Quotes

The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.

Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does

What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.

Faith is knowing something that no-one else does.

A just man is not one who does no ill, But he, who with the power, has not the will.

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.

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.

I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit.

Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus. Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

Without the Eucharist, the Church simply does not exist.

A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.

I cannot imagine a Christian who does not know how to smile. May we joyfully witness to our faith.

How does St. Joseph exercise his role as protector? Discreetly, humbly and silently, but with an unfailing presence and utter fidelity, even when he finds it hard to understand.

The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.

The security of faith does not make us motionless or close us off, but sends us forth to bear witness and to dialogue with all people.

Charity that does not change the situation of the poor isn't enough.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

A pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does.

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

Your mistake does not define who you are...you are your possibilities.

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

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

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.

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

Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.

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

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.

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

The reason to get in touch with the culture is not to adopt it but to engage it for the same reasons a missionary does... to gain a hearing for the gospel.

Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, bur appropriate actions in an imperfect one.

I know what Twitter is; I don't use it. I don't use Facebook, so luckily, it does zero to my ego.

If only I kept my eye on the ball, Looking downward as does the pro there, I might not see where it was going, at all, But there might be a chance it would go there.

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?