Doe Quotes - Page 65

I think whenever you're around Kanye [West], you gotta take notes. The advice is taking notes, because everything he does and everything he says is very detailed and very up front. He's always one hundred what he says.

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.

How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.

The argument advanced by the supporters of the theory of hereditary transmission does not furnish a satisfactory explanation of the cause of the inequalities and diversities of the universe.

If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.

God does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love.

What do Obama and God have in common? Neither has a birth certificate. How do they differ? God does not think he's Obama.

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

I still believe one of the most important choices is how we treat others. What good does it do you to build a huge muscular, impressive body if you are small and underdeveloped on the inside? I’ve always felt that success begins on the inside and reaching our true potential gets blocked when we are small-spirited.

God has given me authority in heaven and on earth, but my writ does not extend to hell. You will just have to put up with it.

No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness.

Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies and have no interest in anyone's affairs. History proper and novels hold no attractions for me except insofar as, I can discern there, as within our immortal Revolution, the adventures of the mind.

Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot.

The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love.

One thing that does confuse me, is that there are more religions in this world than ever, yet there's only sup­posed to be one God.

Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.

The point is that only one thing matters in this world, to prepare oneself for death. One can try to be as comfortable as possible until one dies... Because being comfortable does not have any meaning either. It just does not. Everything is only a big meaninglessness that one must bear.

Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic incentive for women to live a long time.

He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful.

Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.

By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.

There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.