Doe Quotes - Page 216

In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.

No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.

Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

The Federal Narcotics Bureau does a grave disservice by disseminating a lot of misinformation. Most of what they say is such nonsense that I didn't believe them about addiction.

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.

We must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.

Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does.

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.

Why does baloney avoid the grinder?

There are a lot of unseen projects. When a project is finished, I often physically, and in my mind, set it aside, intending something to happen with it, something that does or does not always happen. Now, a lot of these are being resurrected for the public.

Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.

I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English.

Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.

A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.

Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline, on where that is put.