Doe Quotes - Page 242

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

It [sin] cannot occur at any time nor in any form without his permission. While he does not actively originate it, he holds such absolute control over it that no single event in connection with it can take place without his permission

In wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do

The destruction that we have wreaked in the various theaters in which we've been engaged is really quite astonishing. But again, lethality, destruction, killing doesn't seem to achieve our objectives. So, my own sense is that a lack of lethality does not define the core problem.

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.

If there is a god, I think he has a sense of humour. He does not require human beings to protect him from satire.

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.

As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.

But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe' or to anything? Has it any reference to electricity? or does it stand on the very foundation of matter-mass or inertia? then we feel the need of tests, whether they be comets or nebulae or laboratory experiments or bold questions as to the truth of received opinions.

It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well.

Yes, it does make the load rather heavy if you carry tools for every eventuality.

When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.

I want my gay life to not wind up on the streets-on Second Avenue. But at the same time, I don't care if it does.

Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.

As much as we have free choice, absolute destiny is immutable. What is meant to happen does, through one measure or another.

Nothing does so much to help those who suffer as to know that somebody cares.

Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes.

It never does to leave a live Dragon out of the equation.

Sin may then be defined ultimately as anything in the creature which does not express, or which is contrary to, the holy character of the Creator

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.

Next time there’s a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not as a last resort!

An Unbreakable Vow?" said Ron, looking stunned. "Nah, he can’t have.... Are you sure?" "Yes I’m sure," said Harry. "Why, what does it mean?" "Well, you can’t break an Unbreakable Vow..." "I’d worked that much out for myself, funnily enough.

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.