Doe Quotes - Page 115

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

The devil does not tempt unbelievers and sinners who are already his own.

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.

Does my being half-naked bother you?

Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something.

The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.

What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?

Everyone who turns up on 'X Factor' does it because a door has been closed to them at some time in their lives, and this is the only shot they have got.

A women loves you not for the things you do for her, but for the things she does for you.

Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as a species with the space program. We can't afford to regress back to the days of superstition.

You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sorts of reasons. You've got to at least understand.

Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand.

The true Human Being is the Innermost, He does not have problems. The problems are from the mind.

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy

What does NOT work best for anyone, though, is being forced to keep a Windows partition around just to play video games. The best operating system for playing games is the one that lets you keep your word processor, instant messenger, email, and music player open in the background while you play. The worst is the one that will force you to shut all that down just to screw around for a few minutes.

How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?

Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it can to keep it from being disproved.

Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.

Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

I've never invested in any airline. I'm an airline manager. I don't invest in airlines. And I always said to the employees of American, 'This is not an appropriate investment. It's a great place to work and it's a great company that does important work. But airlines are not an investment.'

Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.

Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor's mind toward some resolution which it may never find.

Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.