Doe Quotes - Page 145

Courage does not panic; it prays. Courage does not bemoan; it believes. Courage does not languish; it listens

Of course, I have made mistakes . . . just as every grower does. However, I never really think of them as mistakes!

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.

And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him.

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

We have tried to fit man into abstraction, but he does not fit.

Any religious person who says he does not really need human friends because God is his Friend is calling God a liar because He's the One Who says we also need human friends.

We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems, it does so by its own inexhaustibility, and by its ultimate refusal to be applied or used, even for moral good. This refusal, indeed, is literature's most moral act. At a time when meanings are manifold, disparate, and always changing, the rich possibility of interpretation--the happy resistance of the text to ever be fully known and mastered--is one of the most exhilarating products of human culture.

None of us can afford to pay the price of resenting...because of what it does to us.

Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?

Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.

Soon it will be daybreak. Soon the day will break. I can't stop it from breaking in the same way it always does, and then from lying there broken; always the same day, which comes around again like clockwork. It begins with the day before the day before, and then the day before, and then it's the day itself. A Saturday. The breaking day. The day the butcher comes.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove that you are the better player.

Real non-co-operation is non-co-operation with evil and not with the evil-doer.

True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.

It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does

But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.

It’s all in the genes”: an explanation for the way things are that does not threaten the way things are. Why should someone feel unhappy or engage in antisocial behavior when that person is living in the freest and most prosperous nation on earth? It can’t be the system! There must be a flaw in the wiring somewhere.