Doe Quotes - Page 203

the Lord does not so much look at the work that is done, as at the faithfulness of our hearts in doing it.

I've given you my best, why does she get the best of you?

Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.

That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.

The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be

In the name of what - except perhaps the coefficient of rarity - does man adorn himself with necklaces of shells and not spider's webs, with fox fur and not fox innards? In the name of what I don't know. Don't dirt, trash and filth, which are man's companions during his whole lifetime, deserve to be dearer to him and isn't it serving him well to remind him of their beauty?

The Sacramento Bee is reporting that Arnold Schwarzenegger is not going to run for governor. You know what would be better? Arnold should do what he does in the Terminator movies. He should go back in time and prevent Gray Davis from ever being born. That way you wouldn't have the problem.

But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life.

The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

The Germans are indeed the economically and politically strongest power in Europe. But their superiority does not equal the past and present superiority of the Americans.

Let it come, as it will, and don't be afraid. God does not leave us comfortless, so let evening come.

Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.

A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

The imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble it piecemeal, ugly and strange, bright and clear, and dumbly discovered.

You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

Money for me today does not really matter.

What does your heart tell you?

Hagrid howled still more loudly. Harry and Hermione looked at Ron to help them. 'Er-shall I make a cup of tea?' said Ron. Harry stared at him. 'It's what my mum does whenever someone's upset,' Ron muttered, shrugging.

Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.