Doe Quotes - Page 174

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

Why does anyone commit murder?' he asked in a low voice. 'I-'I blinked.'How should I know?' 'Three reasons,' Christopher said. He held up one finger. 'Love.' Another finger. 'Revenge.' And finally, a third finger. 'Profit...

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.

A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it

How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, as long as the lightbulb wants to change.

Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.

If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.

But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.

Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.

He who does not tire, tires adversity.

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?

Actually 'bad' doesn't do justice to my handwriting. Neither does 'handwriting.' 'Desecration of paper' about covers it.

The heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.

A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

Only God knows that. He is the only one who knows. He is only one who will know. And he is the only one who does know.

A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.

Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned.

The Lord does not want us to "miss supper." In fact, He has a great feast prepared for those who return clean and pure through the door.

The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.

If you think I'm crazy, keep going the way you're going and watch what God does.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.