Doe Quotes - Page 217

Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.

The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food.

What's the matter? What's the antimatter? Does it antimatter?

The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

I've always been a generous and a kind person and so on, but never, ever have I experienced that kind of love. The world just looked different to me and still does.

Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie!

As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it.

Does the business have favourable long term prospects?

I find that the standard of living does not go up in proportion with the cost of living. The trick in life is to do things that are fun all the time.

Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.

As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.

Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

The mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.

One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.

God does not offer us a way out of the testings of life. He offers us a way through, and that makes all the difference.

It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding.

There are some things we do much better than computers, but since most of chess is tactically based they do many things better than humans. And this imbalance remains. I no longer have any issues. It's bit like asking an astronomer, does he mind that a telescope does all the work. He is used to it. It is just an incredible tool that you can use.

At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.

In the name of Our Lord, Monsieur, do all you can to regain your health and take good care of it so that you can serve God and the poor for a longer time. This moderate care does not preclude the obligation we have of generously risking our lives when the salvation of our neighbor is concerned.

Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.

It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.