Doe Quotes - Page 210

He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.

The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in Lawless. John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.

What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish

What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.

Material development alone does not yield genuine inner peace.

Peace does not come through prayer, we human beings must create peace.

Happiness does not exist as an isolated quality, nor does it conform to a single fixed pattern. Happiness is something that breathes and lives in the relationships between one person and another.

You can't point a camera at someone and find out what's in their head. But it does the next best thing - it lets you speculate.

God tests, but he does not tempt.

Your brain does not understand what you are capable of. There is way more inside of you than you can imagine.

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.

A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.

John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though they don't know what they're doing. Then Travolta said he often does the same thing with his career.

The fact there is no route-map to utopia does not mean that there are no routes to more accessible destinations.

We now believe it is appropriate for Saddam Hussein to be forced to change, either by the threat of war, and therefore that compels him to cooperate. If he cooperates, then the basis of changed regime policy has shifted because his regime has, in fact, changed its policy to one of cooperation. So if he cooperates, then that is different than if he does not cooperate.

The hat is not for the street: it will never be democratized. But there are certain houses that one cannot enter without a hat. And one must always wear a hat when lunching with people whom one does not know well. One appears to one's best advantage.

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.

Science does not permit exceptions.

The Constitution does not vest in Congress the authority to protect society from every bad act that might befall it....[I]f followed to its logical extreme, [this approach] would result in an unwarranted expansion of federal power.

Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

Someone like Jay-Z does have a timeless quality, but it's much different than ours. You can look back at something like "At the Hop" by Danny and the Juniors or the music that was on American Bandstand in the 1950s-'60s.

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.