Doe Quotes - Page 150

Nothing is going to change, unless someone does something soon

I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.

Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment.

I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?

Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

Why is electricity so expensive these days? Why does it cost so much for something I can make with a balloon and my hair?

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

The treatment of the indeterminacy principle as absolute and final can then be criticized as constituting an arbitrary restriction on scientific theories, since it does not follow from the quantum theory as such, but rather from the assumption of the unlimited validity of certain of its features, an assumption that can in no way ever be subjected to experimental proof.

Information is power only if you can take action with it. Then, and only then, does it represent knowledge and, consequently, power.

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.

Some people say What's the use of the term if it has to be so fully documented and constrained and footnoted and all the rest. My response to that is: there is no theological word that does not have to be similarly footnoted and constrained: justification, spirit, sanctification etc. Any term can be distorted or domesticated or fly off the handle because of another alien philosophical structure that's imposed on the text and so on. Inerrancy is no different from what we find in every other theologically loaded word.

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

There is only one China. Taiwan is not independent. It does not enjoy sovereignty as a nation.

If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?

I'm sure there's some philosophy that says one of the best ways to deal with any of your problems is to take a deep breath and step away from them for a while, writing does this for me.

Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our debasement?

If you eliminate what no longer works, you illuminate what does.

The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you

Tom doesn't have any principles, or if he does, he puts them aside whenever they're inconvenient. The truth hurts, doesn't it, Tom?