Doe Quotes - Page 137

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.

God has ordained the state as a delegated authority; it is not autonomous. The state is to be an agent of justice, to restrain evil by punishing the wrongdoer, and to protect the good in society. When it does the reverse, it has no proper authority. It is then a usurped authority and as such it becomes lawless and is tyranny.

One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.

He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always.

The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority.

Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?

God does not fill with His Holy Spirit those who believe in the fullness of the Spirit, or those who desire Him, but those who obey Him.

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

Electricity generation emits more carbon dioxide in the United States than does transportation or industry, and nuclear power is the largest source of carbon-free electricity in the country.

I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.

That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle is replaced by a string, which is more spread out.

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.