Doe Quotes - Page 251

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records

There is no art when one does something without intention.

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance of the Mac does prevent the loose ends and confusion of a less sterile environment. But it also prevents fertility. Apple's development must come from within.

It's never felt more Canadian to be Canadian than it does now.

Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.

I have spoken with people at the highest level of intelligence. And I asked them the question, "Does it work? Does torture work?" And the answer was, "Yes, absolutely."

In recent days, the media, as it usually does, has missed the whole point on immigration.

In Businessweek magazine, they did a story a while ago about one of the ten things that the Chinese most want. One of the ten things was "Anything Trump". And I thought about that. And they respect me. China does not respect us and they don't respect our leaders. I have done great in China.

When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement.

You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

I don't trust anyone who does their own hair. I don't think it's natural.

Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?

God's love for others does not stop at the border; neither should ours.

The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.

The way the Army does things is sometimes a little strange.

I was very uncomfortable with all the attention when it first started happening to me. I retreated quite a bit from the world, both physically and emotionally. But then you just accept that you can't control what the rest of the world thinks or does.

Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

When there's someone who's dead and then someone does something that that person would not have liked, they say that that person is spinning in their grave. But I don't understand why they say that. Why is spinning the way that a corpse shows disapproval?

What does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?

Your brain does not manufacture thoughts. Your thoughts shape neural networks.

All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence.