Doe Quotes - Page 227

One of the things Wall Street does not like is ambiguity. Now that the agreement is there, it begins to make the future look a little less cloudy, and that's positively received by Wall Street.

Faith is knowing something that no-one else does.

Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.

What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.

Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does

Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views...The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.

Still water does not only run deep. It runs dangerously.

The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.

Fascism is meaningless because it's so completely indefinable, so where does the 'anti' come into the equation?

Projection into the future does not create security because the future is not really there. It's a fluid mirage. The only security is merging with The Field, right now.

Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us to practice?

We limit ourselves by thinking things can't be done. Many think peace in the world is impossible - many think that inner peace cannot be attained. It is the one who doesn't know it can't be done who does it!

Any praise I receive does not change me, for I pass it right along to God. I walk because God gives me strength to walk, I live because God gives me the supply to live, I speak because God gives me the words to speak. All I did was to surrender my will to God's will. My entire life has prepared me for this undertaking. This is my calling. This is my vocation. This is what I must be doing. I could not be happy doing anything else.

God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.

Death does not allow us to postpone all the things we can experience now.

I'm not in love with David Petraeus. But I think he does present a terrific role model.

Man does not live by GNP alone.

The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.

He who does not mortify his palate will neither know how to mortify his flesh.

You're a doer, because you're prepared to make the necessary effort to translate your dream into action.

It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and so on...But mathematical beauty is of a rather different kind. I should say perhaps it is of a completely different kind and transcends these personal factors. It is the same in all countries and at all periods of time.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations. So that light does not exist for the painter.

I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.