Doe Quotes - Page 124

in all the world there is not someone who does not believe something.

To me it's a mystery that you can show the horrific things in the movies, but not some sexual stuff which everyone does.

The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one's individual conscience and the good of mankind.

The people don't elect U.S. presidents, God does.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

I've learned a valuable opinion does not tell you what to think, it illuminates what you should consider.

We're being sold a brand new idea of patriotism. It never occurred to me that patriotism had to be advertised. Patriotism is something you deeply felt. You didn't have to wear it on your lapel or show it in your window or on a bumper sticker. That kind of patriotism does not appeal to me at all.

Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.

What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.

The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification, for the sake of convenience, can we say 'Africa'. In reality, except as a geographical appellation, Africa does not exist.

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

Love does not take away from one in order to give to another.

What does it say about the college co-ed Sandra Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex...

I said, O Love, tell me this: Does the Lord know you are treating me this way? Love said to me, yes He does, just be totally… totally… silent

On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power.' But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.

The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.

Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).

Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment by freezing moral maturity right at the most primitive, most childish, stage: the fear of retribution-and fundamentalism threatens one hell of a spanking.

It does not take money to make money.

Success may or may not mean that you've acquired a lot. It does mean that you have become a generous person.

Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.

You will never understand what you're doin'. But God does.

Whoever has gratitude will be given more, and he or she will have an abundance. Whoever does not have gratitude, even what he or she has will be taken from him or her.

I've always been kind of a shy guy. Not very outgoing. I might not start a conversation, but if somebody else does, I'll chat away.