Doe Quotes - Page 176

Our executive branch does not believe in interfering with what the legislative branch chooses to do. We believe in federalism.

My faith tells me that God does want people to understand climate change and do something about it.

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

I'd like to be able to experience things. That's the best thing for my work - to be somebody who does get to travel and observe people.

Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work but denies himself. . . . The worker therefore feels himself at home only during his leisure time, whereas at work he feels homeless.

The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity .

Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?

When someone comes up and says something like, 'I am a god,' everybody says 'Who does he think he is?' I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That's who I think I am.

The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.

It is easy to understand that the best deed is well done: and so well as the best deed is done - the highest - so well is the least deed done; and all thing in its property and in the order that our Lord hath ordained it to from without beginning. For there is no doer but He.

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion.

I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as a mom, does not exist. It is a shapeless blob of happy chaos.

God doesn't do good things for us because we are good and we deserve them. He does good things for us because He is good and loves us.

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

Nature does not demand that we be perfect. It requires only that we grow.

Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none of these: it is the hand of Britain that inflicts the wound.

Truth does not appease but inflames the curiosity.

Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.

No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there - well or poorly.