Doe Quotes - Page 188

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which refuses to be the slave or tool of the many or of the few, and guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world.

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.

It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.

As the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration he has for another man's belief.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

The Spirit does not lead you to pray for useless goals.

When I say tourism is sin and traveling on foot is virtue, it's condensed into a dictum. It's much more complex than that, but let's face it, for me, my experience, the world reveals itself to those that travel on foot. You understand the world in a much deeper level. And it does good to anyone who makes film.

Put your good where it does the most.

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.

Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know the WHY of anything.

It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking.

Calvinism that does not humble has missed its mark.

Most of what Congress does fits the description of forcing one American to serve the purposes of another American. That description differs only in degree, but not in kind, from slavery.

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.

I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.

Mickey's a nice fellow who never does anyone any harm, who gets into scrapes through no fault of his own but always manages to come up grinning.

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.