Doe Quotes - Page 190

Does a man need to know what a peplum is? Probably not.

Once you've been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you've noticed the crack in the vase, the vase is never the same for. Once you've seen a friend do something appalling, the friendship is never the same. That does not mean you won't go to the theater, or keep the vase or the friend. You can choose.

If one does not remember death, one does not remember Dharma.

Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.

What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.

I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive, a declared assent to all of their interested absurdities. My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest.

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.

The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost... Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time.

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.

Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

Recession always encourages entrepreneurialism and innovation. It does that every time because when people have no options they look at other things.

Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.

So dearly does His Majesty love us that He will reward our love for our neighbor by increasing the love which we bear to Himself, and that in a thousand ways.

Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.

Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.

When you die, that does not mean that you lose to cancer.

To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.

When you're in a start-up, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. Each is 10 percent of the company. So why wouldn't you take as much time as necessary to find all the A players? If three were not so great, why would you want a company where 30 percent of your people are not so great? A small company depends on great people much more than a big company does.