Doe Quotes - Page 195

By the virtue of modesty the devout person governs all his exterior acts. With good reason, then, does St. Paul recommend this virtue to all and declare how necessary it is and as if this were not enough he considers that this virtue should be obvious to all.

If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit.

The deliberate expansion of means and methods does not automatically bring a new dimension of value.

Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.

You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.

A just man is not one who does no ill, But he, who with the power, has not the will.

An ideology critique that does not clearly accept its identity as satire can, however, easily be transformed from an instrument in the search for truth into one of dogmatism. All too often, it interferes with the capacity for dialogue instead of opening up new paths for it.

What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos.

I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.

Dr. A.Q. Khan's part is only enriching the uranium to weapons grade, ... He does not know about making the bomb, he does not know about the trigger mechanism, he does not know about the delivery system

Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.

I never ask myself how I do what I do. After all, how does it rain?

... there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating and remaking what has been taught.

Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.

Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.

Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.

Gay Republicans, how exactly does that work? 'We disapprove of our own lifestyle. We beat ourselves up in parking lots.

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

We're a me-me-me generation. We're borrowing the savings of every nation in the world. We're ... piling up a big tab. Now, I may think we're too big to have a run on us. You may think that. But it's possible that God does not.

However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is some assurance that the analysis is actually relevant.

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

I am convinced that the attitude we cultivate in advance may well determine how suffering will affect us when it does strike.

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I have to like that trend or go along with it.