Doe Quotes - Page 161

Money doesn`t buy happiness. But happiness isn`t everything.

And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.

The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.

Stories, we all have stories. Nature does not tell stories, we do. We find ourselves in them, make ourselves in them, choose ourselves in them. If we are the stories we tell ourselves, we had better choose them well.

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

My painting does not come from the easel.

You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that be must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.

The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.

I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.

A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war.

Even the absolute universality of the law of causality does not necessarily limit a person's freedom, because the law of causality not only enables him to explain the past and predict the future, but also encourages him to use his intelligence to create new causes and attain new results.

Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.

Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on

So in other words, we were constantly challenged to grow, and thats what a master does.

Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.