Doe Quotes - Page 147

Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.

Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it's pessimistic. Does that make sense?

The absence of strife does not necessarily indicate the presence of peace.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist.

If you use a poor headline, it does not matter how hard you labor over your copy because your copy will not be read.

It does influence every part of your life and it influences every decision you make. (speaking about faith)

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.

Analysis does not transform consciousness.

You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this.

Because people love music, I feel it's my responsibility to produce more of the music and to get it out to more people, so like I said, If the mainstream route does that without compromising me being happy as a person then that's something I'll do.

Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken?

My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.

The thing about chemistry, it's sort of you get along with a person and then sort of if the movie does well, then you have great chemistry.

I still go to a salon where a gal does my hair, and I don't know if it's because I'm a celebrity but by the time I leave there, we are eating chicken and talking and screaming.

If the bitter cup does not pass, drink it and be strong, trusting in happier days ahead.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.

An inconstant woman is one who is no longer in love; a false woman is one who is already in love with another person; a fickle woman is she who neither knows whom she loves nor whether she loves or not; and the indifferent woman, one who does not love at all.

The Christian is free from all other human beings. He does not have to live over against others, controlled by their actions and responses. Rather, he lives according to Christ's commands. This is Christian freedom. It is a freedom unknown by others. It is not just when others do the things that we like that we act properly toward them; we are free to do good even when they don't because our actions are not dependent on their responses. It is the Lord Christ when we serve!

Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of frequency may be absolutely necessary for the purpose, does not appear to be susceptible of any precise calculation; and must depend on a variety of circumstances with which it may be connected. Let us consult experience, the guide that ought always to be followed, whenever it can be found.

For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.

One does not become a guru by accident.

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

I'm always surprised to hear or read my work described, "In angry tones, she says." No! In truthful tones! Does truth have a tone? I don't know.