Doe Quotes - Page 114

I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.

God does some of God's best work with people who are seriously lost.

What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

We'll have a part and it's clearing up, so you think something is going to happen and it totally stops and does something completely different and then the part you thought was going to happen comes out of completely nowhere.

Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible. The more amiably you greet him, the sooner he will go away.

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

Nothing is worth doing at all, nothing is worth writing, which does not do something which will last.

Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.

What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

Directing the process by the mind can only lead to difficulty, for the mind does not know. Commitment to the Truth is sufficient for the process to unfold.

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

The extraordinary business does not require good management.

Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.

Judging people does not help them.

I will say, the one thing Mexico does well is punish prisoners. They do. They're good at that.

What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was a little poem. And in general, it was the poetics, the music of things that tossed his confetti.

How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.

It's not the dreamers that are remembered, it's the doers.

Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is building housing, running prisons, collecting garbage, or innumerable other things. Why in the world would we imagine that health care would be the exception?

Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.

I learned very quickly that to be angry about something does not mean anybody's gonna listen to you.