Doe Quotes - Page 192

Where does the hand become the wrist? where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed and then the weight, whatever turns up and tips us over that razor's edge between something and nothing, between one and the other.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth.

We checked carefully the international law - what does a nation do when terrorists are using civilians to defend their life, as a shelter. And they say you do not have a choice.

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

Anything my staff does in my office is pursuant to congressional rules.

My life is a story about who God is and what He does in a human heart.

If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.

As I have told you before, in a manner of speaking you are given the gifts of gods. Your beliefs become reality. What you believe is, and becomes real in your experience. There is no area in your life to which this does not apply.

To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'

I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

Space does for comics what time does for film!

Inspiration is not purely passive, but does favor the prepared mind.

Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.

God is love so all God does is loving.

An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth - truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations.

Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike." "What?" "He'll understand.

Social media does not change your culture, it reveals it.

Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Chronological time does not exist; what indeed exists is esoteric time, because life is an eternal instant.

Though perseverance does not come from our power, yet it comes within our power.