Doe Quotes - Page 37

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

Curing the negatives does not produce the positives.

Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.

If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God on which one can pattern one's conduct. Wrong triumphs over right as much as right over wrong. Sometimes its triumphs are greater. What happens ultimately, you do not know. In such circumstances what can you do but cultivate an utter indifference to all values? Nothing matters. Nothing whatever.

Pride does not listen. It knows.

Conjuring is the only absolutely honest profession - the conjuror promises to deceive, and does.

Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.

Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterwards.

You will go on blundering, for only he who does nothing avoids errors.

They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.

Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.

Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.

Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.

I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I am a tiger". When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.

Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.

Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.

People's love for us may change, depending on what we do or don't do to please them. But God's does not-it's everlasting.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

You are not the mind. If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it's busy or quiet? You are not the mind.

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.