Doe Quotes - Page 220

Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should.

Fate does not seek our consent.

Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.

Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.

The world does not reward average people so I will be extraordinary.

Living alone, you can do so many fantastic things I've learned. You can like, walk around and have so many conversations with yourself and sing your thoughts. I think I'm the only one that does that.

does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.

There's nothing wrong with getting a steady paycheck, unless it interferes with your ability to earn what you're worth. There's the rub. It usually does.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?" Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tenderness.

It does not matter if you believe in God, because God believes in you.

Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming.

He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.

To be successful, one has to be one of three bees: the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.

We each focus on what we're going to buy, but that's an incorrect focus. Focus instead on why you want to spend the money on this or that. What feeling in you does it satisfy?

Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.

Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it.

It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the joke across in as few words as possible. However, sometimes a word that's not really needed does help the rhythm of it. It's a gut feeling.

Does fuzzy logic tickle?

A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you. So it does sometimes turn into a situation where you're saying to the person you're working with, "Well, what do you want?" But then there are other times when I work with people and they'll turn to me and say, "How do you want to do this?" And that's actually when I work best.

Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.