Doe Quotes - Page 84

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

God never does anything accidentally.

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.

If worship does not change us it has not been worship.

Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

The ego does not, cannot live in the present, because the present is real and the ego is false - they never meet.

The Bible never belittles human disappointment ... but it does add one key word: temporary.

How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.

There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

Stakeholders - meaning workers and community - the CEO could just as well be responsible to them. This presupposes there ought to be management but why does there have to be management? Why not have the stakeholders run the industry?

With the exception of the geometrical series, there does not exist in all of mathematics a single infinite series the sum of which has been rigorously determined. In other words, the things which are the most important in mathematics are also those which have the least foundation.

It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist.

God does awesome things with us.

How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

... non-use of rights does not destroy them.

"Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.

The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing cash to another.

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really see you as he sees himself, as he sees his own kind.

The rule is: the word 'it's' (with apostrophe) stands for 'it is' or 'it has'. If the word does not stand for 'it is' or 'it has' then what you require is 'its'. This is extremely easy to grasp. Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation. No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, 'Good food at it's best', you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life

Perfect preparation doesn’t exist. Excellent adaptation does.