Doe Quotes - Page 250

He who assists a poor or needy villain does evil to his neighbor...for through the assistance which he renders he...supplies him with the means of doing evil to others.

Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.

A strong film director does leave you to your devices. A strong director allows you to be free and you trust that he's there and he will tell you if you've gone too far. A strong director allows you to be much more experimental and take greater chances than a director who isn't secure within himself.

Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.

Why does getting ahead always have to involve getting up early?

I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.

Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.

William F. Buckley, Jr. does not so much speak as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.

Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street.

It is a principle of law, that a person intends to do that which is the natural effect of what he does.

It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.

The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

Earth does not understand her child, Who from the loud gregarious town Returns, depleted and defiled, To the still woods, to fling him down.

O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!

Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.

What we're starting to see is a quantum biology, it being applied in biology and cosmology and a host of other sciences, because it does really pertain to how we know. It really helps bring epistemology, which is how do we know what we know, out of the realm of philosophy and brings it into the realm of science.

One does not marry art. One ravishes it.

Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.

Keep in mind, coal plants claim plenty of birds too. Sadly, hydro claims the lives of many fish. There is a price for everything. Solar does the best as far as very minimal wildlife damage.

Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that does not want freedom or peace, or the absence of problems. There's something that wants the opposite.

Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.

A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.

Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.

Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.