Doe Quotes - Page 105

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.

If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.

I always say, or have said in the past, that ninety-nine and forty-four-hundredths of the audience does not pay any attention to the lighting, but one hundred percent is affected by it.

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

Never categorize yourself: Society does that to you, ..don't do it to yourself.

I hate the word universal, because I don't know exactly what it means. The question is, does it work for the client? Travelers was a diversified, financial conglomerate that did very well. The businesses had nothing to do with each other.

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

When a filmmaker does not make films it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds himself wandering in a larger jail. The main question is: Why should it be a crime to make a movie? A finished film, well, it can get banned but not the director.

If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.

The true Christian does not need to be reminded that he has a crucified Master. He often thinks of Him.

But it does make me sad that we've forgotten our names. Out of everything, this seems to me the most tragic. I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they are.

Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent. You will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very different.

The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

Reincarnation, at least as I conceive it, does not nullify what we know about evolution and genetics. It suggests, however, that there may be two streams of evolution -- the biological one and a personal one -- and that during terrestrial lives these streams may interact.

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

What good does it do to ban some guns. All guns should be banned.

In religion faith does not spring out of feeling, but feeling out of faith. The less we feel the more we should trust. We cannot feel right till we have believed.

Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]

What difference, at this point, does it make?

It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist.

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

If the world does not please you, you can change it.

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.