Doe Quotes - Page 144

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither

Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.

Wearing a low-cut, cleavage-revealing top is called suggestive. What does it suggest? That there is more than what you now see, and I may let you look closer since I'm already willing to give you this much of a peek.

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.

If theres a choice between tap water and bottled water, the consumer can make that choice. In a very large geography in the world, that choice does not exist.

God does not demand that I be successful. God demands that I be faithful. When facing God, results are not important. Faithfulness is what is important.

I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.

If the world does not change course, we risk self-destruction.

There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.

Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand - even in dreams.

No, this is not what a fair God would do. And why does it not say anywhere in the Bible that slavery is wrong? It only says that you should treat your slaves well. Well, I don't care if you treat them well. How is it possible that it is not immoral to own another person? Why isn't that one of the Ten Commandments? 'Thou shalt not own another person.' You want to sit here and tell me that fornication is worse than owning someone?

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

A turtle does come in it's own bowl

Now. Now is the most important time of all of your young lives. And what does now stand for - N-O-W? No Other Way. That's the only time - NOW!

What does this system seem designed to do? As I see it, it seems designed to send people right back to prison, which is what happens about 70% of the time.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past - or more accurately, pastness - is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past

Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.

One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society.

When I was four, I just wanted to drive, I collected toy cars. Where does that sort of thing come from? In hindsight you go, 'Oh, liked it because of this.' Maybe it's just the wheel.

God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

When one is anxious only to live, he easily, in this solicitude, forgets the enjoyment of life. If his only concern is for life, and he thinks "if I only have my dear life," he does not apply his full strength to using, i. e., enjoying, life.

Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath. Take the common, make it spectacular! Pray & see what He can do.