Doe Quotes - Page 196

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Andreotti had style and class; Berlusconi does not

It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in. If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does not cost us anything, it is a delight, but it costs those who do not love Him a good deal.

We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. We cannot save ourselves nor sanctify ourselves, God does that; but God will not give us good habits, He will not give us character, He will not make us walk aright. We have to do all that ourselves.

The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

What we do for a living does not matter as much as how we do it.

A pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does.

You just keep moving forward and doing what you do, and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave its inner mental processes alone.

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

None of us went to university, none of us went to college, none of us played in a different band before, none of us done anything. We were the last great band to come out of nowhere, on an indie label. We've sold 50 million records. That's still the benchmark. Until someone does what we've done, I'll always consider myself the last big songwriter

An artist always know everything he does, you know what I'm saying, all the record he starts and don't end up in the public and just sit on the harddrive.

It's not a British attitude to dedicate yourself to such an extent as he [Wilkinson] does... He is such a dedicated so-and-so who only thinks about booting it over the posts

Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen.

If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard.

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.

True love always brings joy to ourself and the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.

If 'all the Jewish women in Palestine are hysterical', presumably many of their menkind suffer from the same disability, which certainly does not promise well for the luckless Arab who is to live beneath their sway. How much of the trouble that has occurred already in Palestine may be attributed to this cause it is impossible to know.