Doe Quotes - Page 235

Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?

This is the moment when we have to decide: does a world exist outside ourselves and is that world worth fighting for? Another 200 species went extinct today. They were my kin. They were yours, too. If we know them as such, why aren't we fighting to save them with everything we've got?

I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.” “Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins at home.” “So does mental illness.

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.

The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape just a few miles down the road. It does not get much better than Lyon.

There's one thing that life does where ever it goes- it begats life.

Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.

Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or cannot do such-and-such an action; but as soon as he does it, this action, committed at a certain moment in time, becomes irreversible, and makes itself the property of history, in which is has not a free but a predestined significance.

When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he does not assume that they are ready-made for today.

As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.

The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it.

This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.

Let's face it. Leftism is the political form of evil. And the left largely controls the modern West. Where, then, does that leave us all?

Once my jars were labeled, I felt contentedly thrilled with myself, as if I had pulled off a wonderful trick. People feel this way when they bake bread or have babies, and although they are perfectly entitled to feel that way, in fact, nature does most of the work.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

Prancing around with marshmallowss on your nipples does *not* constitute living your life fully!

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens

The photographer can arrange his picture just as the painter does, only sometimes he must go about it in a different way.

This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.

The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.

He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.

The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose.

The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness.