Doe Quotes - Page 245

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.

The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.

Ministry is a very confronting service. It does not allow people to live with illusions of immortality and wholeness. It keeps reminding others that they are mortal and broken, but also that with the recognition of this condition, liberation starts.

Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.

To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease.

Often the confidence of the patient in his physician does more for the cure of his disease than the physician with all his remedies. Reasserting the statement by Avicenna.

I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance: Nothing! I believe that that word does not point to our insignificance or our unhappiness, but on the contrary to our fulfillment and our divinity, since everything is in ourselves.

Death does not wait for you to be ready! Death is not considerate or fair. And make no mistake: here, you face death.

Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.

They’re called action scenes because they do the acting for you. You don’t have to act in action scenes.

Love is not a good thing, I've decided. It just makes you afraid you'll lose what you love, and then, because your fear makes a space for that to happen, it does. What's the point?

Believe in yourself, even when no one else does.

Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.

No man does right by a woman at a party.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.

Please note that, at no point in the performance, does my hand leave the end of my arm.

A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!

Fage does not make great yogurt.

When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated.

I speak "with absolute certainty" only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any "authority" let alone "divine revelation"!

Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure spending because it is easier than measuring actual metrics of accomplishment.

Even though I really admire what Beyonce does, and she's probably got one of the best live shows in the world - honestly! - that's so not my style.

Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress, there is disintegration.