Doe Quotes - Page 231

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

One hundred sparrow does not make one eagle.

We are Adam and Eve born out of chaos called creation Ribbing me gave you life yet you forget there will always be a part of me in you yes I taunted and tempted you with my forbidden fruit does that make me the serpent too? Believe what you will but if I am exiled alone I know we will be together again someday naked without shame in paradise My thanks to you for being in on my sin

We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech.

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.

The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work.

I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God?

A story does that: it will reach out and hook somebody and hold them for just a few moments while you unpack this story in their presence.

What if what has been said one time not only does not cease to be said but always recommences, and not only recommences but also imposes upon us the idea that nothing has ever truly begun, having from the beginning begun by beginning again.

Never does one so constantly see so many different things as when peering from a small window.

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble.

Your need to talk does not create in me a need to listen.

If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.

We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

My courage does not depend on the weather.

The true preacher does not seek for truth in the pulpit; he is there because he has found it.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

A piece of freedom is no longer enough for human beings...unlike bread, a slice of liberty does not finish hunger. Freedom is like life. It cannot be had in installments. Freedom is indivisible--we have it all, or we are not free.