Doe Quotes - Page 133

Well, frenetic activity in the end suiting journos, running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything else in a few synaptic steps.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long as we are comfortably clothed and fed and looked after, our civilisation becomes an elaborate means of ignoring God.

God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

There is not a day that goes by that does not include a conversation with God. There is not a day that goes by that does not contain signs. There are many days that go by on which we do not hear the conversation, do not see the signs. So stay awake.

It does, Tennyson, because there’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There’s a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you’re on the wrong side of both lines.

I discovered that Christianity does have the resources to meet the challenges posed by competing worldviews after all.

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.

The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.

It was Hillary Clinton who left Americans in harm's way in Benghazi and after four Americans fell, said: ''What difference, at this point, does it make?''

God created animals. And they’re loving; they’re beautiful. I feel the way (anthropologist) Jane Goodall does or any of those naturalists. I don’t find my interest in animals weird or strange at all.

Why does a three-year-old, and it's usually boys, want to drive the tractor or have machinery and be in control of it? I don't know. Why wouldn't you ask to boil a kettle or something? Maybe you would, I dunno.

A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God.

If we are not able to fix the Lord firmly in our hearts, even a lifetime of temple-going does not do us any good.

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.

It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.

The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.

Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day, he is always some man's slave for wages, and does that man's work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living.

People are like, 'How does Julianne Moore look naked?' I don't know. She was pressed up against me the whole time. I couldn't look at her.

If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers... February is for doers -

What does the corpse care who was right and who was wrong?