Doe Quotes - Page 180

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.

There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?

We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat.

Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.

Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.

The person... in the grip of an old distress says things that are not pertinent, does things that don't work, fails to cope with the situation, and endures terrible feelings that have nothing to do with the present.

Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?

The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

It takes the same energy to complain as it does to compliment. When there is a short circuit, there is a complaint, and when the energy is flowing, there is a compliment.

The concept of congruence in Euclidean geometry is not exactly the same as that in non-Euclidean geometry. ..."Congruent" means in Euclidean geometry the same as "determining parallelism," a meaning which it does not have in non-Euclidean geometry.

‎"Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?" "No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of." "Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.

Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.

Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed.

Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.

As a guy I never liked being told to call, which my wife really never does, and that's why I call her as often as I do.

Animism is far from primitive, nor is it about pre-modernity because animism does not serve as a precursor to modernity. Rather animism is one of the many vitally present and contemporary other-than-modern ways of being human.

A detective who uses his deductive powers to corner a suspect and then does nothing to stop them from committing suicide is no better than a murderer himself. - Kudo Shinichi

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.

Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.