Doe Quotes - Page 102

The public does not know what is possible. We do.

God does not love us because we are hard or easy to love, He loves us because He is God.

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest, at least as interest is vulgarly understood, either to neglect it altogether, or, if he is subject to some authority which will not suffer him to do this, to perform it in as careless and slovenly a manner as that authority will permit.

He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.

Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.

A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.

Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

A coerced "choice" does not reflect virtue, only compliance.

Learners are doers, not recipients.

Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in a city, as one loses one’s way in a forest, requires some schooling.

The brain does not make the man; the man makes the brain.

A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.

Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.

Everybody's got a past. The past does not equal the future unless you live there.

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

One of the fundamental conditions of happiness is to know that everything that one does has a meaning in eternity

I heard 'Get Lucky'; it's just not my taste. It's great what Daft Punk does and the sound quality is great, but that whole disco vibe is not really my thing.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that does not mean that it is a wrong thing to do.

He never gave up. And he does that for us

A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.