Doe Quotes - Page 211

One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy.

No man of God does something against the Lord

Your family should be there. Your family should always be there. What does it say about you if they aren't?

Beware Okonkwo!" she warned. "Beware of exchanging words with Agbala. Does a man speak when a god speaks? Beware!

A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing

Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.

The existence of hypocrites does not prove the non-existence of true believers.

When a person does something, it has the man or woman look about it. It drips with humanity. You can follow the logic of it and see the meaning behind it.

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.

If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist — he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God.

What Messi does is terrifying. It's indescribable magic. You can't analyze it.

If you know why someone is doing what they're doing, why they're behaving the way they are, then that's your job to reveal that, and often that's situational. The storytelling does that, and then some of it's your job as an actor to make that subtext come to life.

Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater news. Not this filth." "But you are not a lady, Jessamine---," Charlotte began. "Dear me," said Will. "Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.

"Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" asked Simon. "No," Jace said. "Sometimes he sits on the couch and does it."

Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.

Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal.

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"

We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.

It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!

One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God.

As with most things governmental, failure does not mean having to try something else. It means spending more money.

As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.