Doe Quotes - Page 103

As soon as you're willing to humble yourself and say, God, please help - then you can find out that His strength really is perfect, that He really does care for you, that He does really want to meet your need.

If you please God, it does not matter whom you displease. And if you displease Him, it does not matter whom you please.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.

Our problems, all come from nothing; they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist.

My mom does all the grocery shopping.

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.

What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.

He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.

Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion.

Happiness does not have to be deserved, earned, worked for or paid for; it simply has to be accepted.

A writer/director is a tough thing to gauge when someone hasn't directed a movie before. You just don't know. Sometimes it will be a great script that's written beautifully, and then the director who has also written it does not have the facility to translate it.

Even if I had $200 million, I’m very wary of overusing CGI. I think it’s a great tool and it can be used really effectively, but I feel like it does tend to be overused and especially in sci-fi stuff.

Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.

There is a sense in the tree which feels your love and responds to it. It does not respond or show its pleasure in our way or in any way we can now understand.

I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.

The law does not generate justice. The law is nothing but a declaration and application of what is just.

Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work as old-fashioned. It does not have a frame of actuality in our time or locality.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: The most conscientous student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.

God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.