Doe Quotes - Page 146

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, "What did I say? What did I say?" "What did I say?" asked Ivan indignantly.

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

Donald Trump has been getting favorable comments from white supremacists, from American Nazis. And any explanation of Donald Trump`s rise that does not include those facts is a false analysis.

The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.

The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.

Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?

If you don't know that God loves you, he does. He loves his creation. And you're his creation.

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

It does not matter how awesome your product is or your presentation or your post. Your awesome thing matters ONLY to the extent that it serves the user's ability to be a little more awesome.

Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

Everybody knows that the federal government promises a lot and delivers damn little, and pays for most of what it does deliver out of the earnings of individuals rather than the profits of great corporations.

It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.

Agential realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest. On the contrary, it is a call, a plea, a provocation, a cry, a passionate yearning for an appreciation of, attention to the tissue of ethicality that runs through the world.

You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.

I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.

I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.

I believe a lot in instinct. One should never dull it by wanting to know everything. One shouldn't ask too many questions but do what one does properly, never rush, and never torment oneself.

He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.

Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms

There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.

Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.