Doe Quotes - Page 135

​​​​​​You're going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.

There's been no top authority saying what marijuana does to you. I really don't know that much about it. I tried it once but it didn't do anything to me.

History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.

The UK downgrade will come as little surprise to many. It does not appear to be occurring because the UK is cutting its deficit too far and too fast.

Does Christ get a good reputation because of the way we live? Is the excellence of Christ displayed in our lives? That should matter to us, not whether we ourselves are praised.

The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.

Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they teach, does. In other words, faith cannot be separated from faithfulness.

The person who doubts there is an external world does not need proof: he needs a cure.

All one can do for one's character in times like these, is to prove that one does not belong to these times.

The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.

I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.

Greatness can’t be imposed; it has to come from within. But it does live within all of us.

A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.

The only requisite to entry into the Middle Passage is to have discovered that one does not know who one is, that there are no rescuers, no Mommy or Daddy, and that one's fellow travelers will do well to survive themselves.

Almost always, it is the conviction that 'I am right' or 'my cause is the cause of justice' that triggers violence. That is, ...the moment propaganda does its work, violence is unleashed. And violence can be reduced by countering this propaganda.

No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

On the chessboard, if nowhere else, justice does triumph.

I want to state that there will be friendship between Bangladesh and ourselves. And not a one-sided friendship, of course - no one does anything for nothing; each has something to give and something to take.

Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses by speculation and criticism, by the logic of proofs and refutations.

Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.