Doe Quotes - Page 208

Possession and exorcism is something that’s in every religion and every culture. It’s a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.

Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another.

The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.

A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.

. . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.

The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.

And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.

What is working stain, does not soil.

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

My self-confidence comes from the fact that I have discovered my own dimensions. It does not behoove me to make myself smaller than I am.

Chance does not work. Only choice will work. Your choice!

Internet does not equal sodium pentothal.

The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall? The Once-ler: Uh, down? The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.

If it does not come at the last to gladness, then to hell with it.

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

A person does not leave a good marriage for someone else.

It does not cost anything to dream. Spend your time enjoying your big dreams.

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.