Doe Quotes - Page 129

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.

Ronaldo can do whatever he wants as a footballer. There are some things he does with the ball that make me touch my head and wonder how he did it.

A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is.

On most lines, making a sale without making a convert does not count for much. Sales made by conviction - by advertising - are likely to bring permanent customers. People who buy through casual recommendations often do not stick

It's OK if Tim McGraw goes and does a movie, and it's OK if Justin Timberlake does a movie, but it's not OK for an actor to become a singer. I never understood that.

I had never been to Oklahoma City before. I had no clue. Just heard there were a lot of tornadoes.

Man belongs to the Earth, Earth does not belong to man

Every man, therefore, who expects justification by works, must see to it, not that he is better than other men, or that he is very exact and does many things, or that he fasts twice in the week, and gives tithes of all he possesses, but that he is sinless.

Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.

Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Giving does not just feel good, but it's really, really good for business, and it's good for your personal brand.

The Bible does not teach that sin is completely eradicated from the Christian in this life, but it does teach that sin shall no longer reign over you.

Ketchup is great on hamburgers, but if some gets on your shirt, that does not make your shirt also a hamburger.

Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about it matters little.

The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.

Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.

If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.

Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which produced Beethoven and Schweitzer, sets an even higher value on the transient anodynes of youth than does youth itself.... They are the Hollow Men. They are electronic lice.

Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.

But ultimately, the purpose of marriage is to transmit civilization to the next generation. There has never been an institution that does it as well as marriage, and that is marriage between a man and a woman.

It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.

The Divine does not come from somewhere above, it exists beyond time and space, and informs all life.