Doe Quotes - Page 214

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

He who does not know how to believe, should not know.

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.

Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form of punishment in a capitalist society.

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.

Disasters are funny to me. As a comedian you learn from failure, so I'm always trying to put myself in a situation that does not seem ideal for my comedy and see how it works.

The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with a man does to marrying him. It's completely different.

Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.

My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.

Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, 'How does it feel?' And that always leads to love songs. It just does.

Its very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.

If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you have to starve it.

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access to information and the ability to execute trades quickly and efficiently. So it is a mixed bag of opportunity.

What one does easily, one does well.

Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but when it does it comes as a total shock.

Unhappiness does make people look stupid.

I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together. I just cry and laugh.

I'’m generally in favor of economic globalization. Having said that, it doesn’t always work and does not immediately work in the interest of all. There are sufferers.