Doe Quotes - Page 193

God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

Do it [stand-up comedy] because it feels like the right thing to do. Do it because you don't want to do anything else. There is something in you that does not want you to do anything else other than comedy.

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.

A decent cowboy does not take what belongs to someone else and if he does he deserves to be strung up and left for the flies and coyotes

I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.

George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.

Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness.

But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

Why does the typical adventuring group consist of a wizard, a warrior, and a rogue, anyway? It should really be a wizard, a warrior, and a rich guy. Otherwise who's going to pay for all the swords and spells and hotel rooms?

The sun of quality does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not just passively illuminate them. It is not subordinate to them in any way. It has CREATED them. They are subordinate to IT.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair. Wha does the utmost that he can Will whyles do mair.

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely.

I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

Christ does not choose you because you are good, but to make you good.

It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.

I find that religion really does motivate people to do horrible things because they have this passionate faith in whatever their religion happens to be, and it teaches them that the other religion is the wrong one.

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.

You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.