Doe Quotes - Page 233

If what we change does not change us we are playing with blocks.

Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.

Fear has a smell, as love does.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.

No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.

Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.

The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.

Women who are to some extent resistant, whom one cannot possess at once, whom one does not even know at first whether one will ever possess, are the only interesting ones.

I'm not an attorney or a person who does intellectual property .

It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination?

The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.

The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And it does not so much as even purport to be a contract between persons now existing.

Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.