Doe Quotes - Page 139

Extra features were once considered desirable. We now recognize that 'free' features are rarely free. Any increase in generality that does not contribute to reliability, modularity, maintainability, and robustness should be suspected.

I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking. I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.

People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?

God does not discipline us to subdue us, but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness.

The favor of God does not bless self-promotion

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.

A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.

I'm a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.

A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession of successful days.

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.

What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.

She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. from "The Lady of the Haunted House

Good health makes a lot of sense, but it does not make a lot of dollars.

The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land.

Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.

Beauty is like a train that ceaselessly roars out of the Gare de Lyon and which I know will never leave, which has not left. It consists of jolts and shocks, many of which do not have much importance, but which we know are destined to produce one Shock, which does...The human heart, beautiful as a seismograph...Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all.

The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.

If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let them be accursed at His coming. God save you from your fate. Amen!

A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.

The shaman does not believe in a division between the body and the spirit or between the visible world of form and the invisible world of energy

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.