Doe Quotes - Page 152

Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success.

Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, 'What does it matter.'

One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience. If we knew why the Lord sent us this or that trial, it would thereby cease to be a trial either of faith or of patience.

Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.

Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.

The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?

Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global - that has a global presence that's involved in TV production, in movies, in publishing, in newspapers, digital media, et cetera. So for a company like that to function, clearly it does not depend only on Rupert Murdoch or James Murdoch.

As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.

Any belief that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only.

I think the main problem we have is the pricing of oil as it is now. I think it's wrong. It does not reflect the fundamentals of supply/demand.

I shall show that the place does not honor the man, but the man the place.

Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule for ever.

..Science is changing. God's Word does not change!

Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one's faith.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry?

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

Although things seem to be sometimes going up and sometimes descending, sometimes slipping away, nevertheless there is a reality, the same today as in the past. It does not change, for nothing can affect it. Could we not say it is one great harmony? So why shouldn't we ask about it.

Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.