Doe Quotes - Page 113

Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her to distraction? She has all the softness that does not imply weakness... she is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness of one.

A Christian is something before he does anything; and we have to be Christian before we can act as Christians.

Behavior precedes belief - that is, most people must engage in a behavior before they accept that it is beneficial; then they see the results, and then they believe that it is the right thing to do....implementation precedes buy-in; it does not follow it.

Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises.

What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?

God does sometimes change our trying circumstances. But more often, He doesn't - because He wants to change us.

That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.

One of my daughters told me the other day, "Kevin Hart is funnier than you, Daddy." I told her, "Does Kevin Hart make you pancakes?"

But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?

In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.

When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.

What does not change is the will to change

The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

The child, unhampered, does not waste time.

Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Drugging out symptoms does not solve the problem, it helps us ignore it - until the vehicle breaks down.

What does an atheist scream when they come?

Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off.

When the state intervenes to insure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor of that doctrine.

I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he 'uncovers' it.