Doe Quotes - Page 31

But the UFO phenomenon simply does not behave like extraterrestrial visitors. It actually molds itself in order to fit a given culture.

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.

It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.

Sometime we waste too much time to think about someone who does not even think about us for a second.

Every man should be master of anything he does and should do it in a masterly manner, with love, no matter what it is, whether hard physical work, menial or boring work, or inspirational work.

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.

Augie: Does everybody else know? T.C.: About my epitaph? Augie: About me being gay, you gink-head hoser-face! T.C. Not everybody. There's a night watchman at a Dunkin Donuts just outside of Detroit. He doesn't know yet.

The heart does not derive pure pleasure from what is impermanent.

Nowhere inthe annals of history does the record show a people delivered from bondage bypatience alone.

As you seek new opportunity, keep in mind that the sun does not usually reappear on the horizon where last seen.

Much of the Christian religion has largely become “holding on” instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the holding on (to us!), and we must learn the letting go (of everything else).

PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush. You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes?

It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this moment of appropriation, the word does not exist in a neutral and impersonal language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets his words!), but rather it exists in other people's mouths, in other people's contexts, serving other people's intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one's own

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

Your heart beats 72 times a minute. Every time it beats, it does so with the permission of its Creator.

Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.

Look, I think liberals have reasonable gripes with Fox News. It does lean to the right, primarily in its opinion programming but also in its story selection (which is fine by me) and elsewhere. But it's worth remembering that Fox is less a bastion of ideological conservatism and more a populist, tabloidy network.

I probably have some sort of chocolate five times a week. There's definitely a change it does to the chemistry of the body. It's my favorite feeling. I live for it.

God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.

Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.

don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.