Doe Quotes - Page 205

Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

If the Christian does not know when God is speaking, he is in trouble at the heart of his Christian life!

Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing.

The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.

When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons.

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.

Just because there are things I don't remember, doesn't mean my actions are meaningless. The whole world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

The thing about film is that your eye is selective. Film isn't. You have to make film do what you want. Simply photographing something doesn't do it. You have to know how to apply light and know what it does on film.

How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.

The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.

Art does not imitate, but interpret.

I was in the fashion shows in Milan; I was seventeen, I was doing like 100 shows. People were asking, 'How does it feel to be the model of the moment?' It was hard for me to answer as myself. I barely spoke English.

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

It is funny about money. And it is funny about identity. You are you because your little dog knows you, but when your public knows you and does not want to pay for you and when your public knows you and does want to pay for you, you are not the same you.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.