Doe Quotes - Page 184

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

Atheists does not believe in God. God also does not believe in Atheists

Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.

Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.

I think that having love in your life does open up doors and other possibilities.

God does not 'love' us without liking us.

... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.

To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.

Just because a woman is silent does not mean she agrees.

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

Hooka Tooka, my soda cracker, does your momma chaw tobacca?

Spirtual does not mean divorced from the physical, earthly realm. The Earth is one of the most divine forms in all creation.

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation.

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Though I’ve grown old, the bell still rings for me as it does for all who truly believe.

What a man does not know is greater than he.

I will do as much as I can, says one. Any fool can do that. He that believes in Christ does what he cannot do, attempts the impossible, and performs it.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.

Sometimes coincidentally an unintelligent person can accomplish a task but that does not mean that he is a knower of means and device or is experienced. A ruler should be careful enough to designate other tasks to such persons.

He who understands, as always, can make his car work better than he who does not.