Doe Quotes - Page 167

Time does not exist - we invented it

Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.

I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.

God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

The king reigns but does not govern.

The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?

Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.

Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.

It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.

A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe only one thing: that by his act he will change the course of history.

Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

Every good servant does not all commands.

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.

A decade ago, I really did believe that the average investor could do it himself. I was wrong. I've come to the sad conclusion that only a tiny minority, at most one percent, are capable of pulling it off. Heck, if Helen Young Hayes, Robert Sanborn, Julian Robertson, and the nation's largest pension funds can't get it right, what chance does John Q. Investor have?

Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others quicken and refine, by giving a mechanical facility and by engrafting an acquired sense?

If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.

No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.

It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

I look at Bill Clinton, the way I look at Bill Gates. As long as my Microsoft stock is going up, I don't care what Bill Gates does in the privacy of his own home.

The collisions happen 40 yards down the field, so if you take off from 5 yards or 10, it does not even matter. Do I make sense? I mean, come on.

There is no one that God does not love with all that he is. His love reaches beyond every sin and failure, hoping that at some moment they will come to know just how loved they are.

Everyone in Life does Exactly what they Know How to Do Given the Conditions of their Lives