Doe Quotes

Not only does God play dice with the world He does not let us see what He has rolled.

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction.

Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.

I'm a huge news junkie. I love what the news does.

My hand trembles, my heart does not.

I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in my head.

Would you like to hear my story, Bella? It doesn't have a happy ending - but which of ours does? If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now.

On the level of simple sensation and mood, making love surely resembles an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique knowable event to another individual one that begot it.

Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.

It does not matter if you believe in God, because God believes in you.

One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.

Perfection does not exist. It's more important to be happy with the human being you are.

It's the reason we go to films and watch television: to escape the mundane nature of life and see another world and see ourselves in that other world. I think that's what sci-fi does so well.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me

You can't be a band and not play, and playing is so invigorating. It breathes life into you. So does creating something out of nothing.

Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.

Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.

Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.

Fate does not seek our consent.

Alex Riley does a lot of things for me. I teach him so many things.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then he complains of the decline of literature.

Doesn't seem right, does it? A split second to lose him and a lifetime to grieve over him.

Never try to fix other people. God does not need to do a bank shot off your lips.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

Carlton does not pitch to the hitter, he pitches through him. The batter hardly exists for Steve. He's playing an elevated game of catch.

Marvel does a great job of making their characters human.

A warrior does not beg for his life. ~Izuru Kira

Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

Meryl Streep does not make mistakes. Sometimes the world just can't keep up.

Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.

Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.

That's what love does. When it's right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.

Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.

The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?

God is so great, he does not even need to exist.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.

The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.

When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding.

I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal That's born into the world alive Is either a little Liberal Or else a little Conservative!

I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.

Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.

It is not enough to ask yourself, 'Does God's Word permit me to use these good things of the world?' You must also inquire, 'Will it serve the glory of God?'and, 'Will it edify my fellow Christians?'

All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage.