Doe Quotes - Page 183

To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?

One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.

What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.

Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does.

It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that good it should, and we fail to be nourished and built up by it as we otherwise would be, if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach.

But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.

To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.

There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.

A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

If a person is working toward a predetermined goal and knows where to go, then that person is successful. If a person does not know which direction they want to go in life, then that person is a failure.

A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does.

Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.

Twitter does have an effect on everything - things you put out there, they are out there for good.

"How does one conquer fear, Don B.?" "One takes a frog and sews it to one's shoe," he said. "The left or the right?" Don B. gave me a pitying look. "Well, you'd look mighty funny going down the street with only one frog sewed to your shoes, wouldn't you?" he said. "One frog on each shoe."

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.

I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing.

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.

I'm older and wiser. So and now having segued into filmmaking I'm looking at [Ridley Scott ] and what he does in an entirely different way and I have respect for what he does and how he composes shots. So that was what was completely fascinating.

Does anyone really know where they're going to?

For God to be holy does not just mean He is without error. It means He is without equal. May it not be said of any one of us that there is not respect for the author of the universe. He is sovereign over all nature, over all nations and over every single one of our lives.