Doe Quotes - Page 24

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

The towns and countryside that the traveller sees through a train window do not slow down the train, nor does the train affect them. Neither disturbs the other. This is how you should see the thoughts that pass through your mind when you meditate.

Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.

Only death does not lie.

The body does whatever it wants. I am not my body; I am my mind.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

Discussing religion was like discussing which cave will be better to live. If you want to follow a religion, follow any religion. It does not matter. If you have decided to commit suicide, does it matter how you do it?

Excellence does not require perfection.

What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen he's become a different person.

The picture of fallen man as given in Scripture is that he knows God but does not want to recognize Him as God.

I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need even a speck of flattery.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it.

I wear the mask. It does not wear me.

I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense.

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

Sex is natural, sex is good/Not everybody does it, but everybody should

Legalism lacks the supreme sense of worship. It obeys but it does not adore.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.

A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.