Doe Quotes - Page 255

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

You never know what's going to happen. Anything can happen there... and often does.

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence.

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.

This cement can be used in any situation and for any purpose to which any other mortar or hydraulic cement can be applied. It does not become perfectly hard within one or two months.

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.

Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.

I get a lot of credit for having succeeded as a Latina in this world, and I am not that. I appreciate it, but I'm Italian. And that does happen a lot.

This is what makes sports so amazing, that we can start a discussion around a table, in the newspaper, in the magazines, that will get people's attention. And that's what sports does.

A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover.

The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.

Stress never feels as natural as peace does

Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.

They who secure eternal life are doers of the word as well as hearers

The experience of making a movie, you start to see it everywhere. It's just this amazing mechanism that your brain does because it just so badly wants to be helpful and keep all the information that you need as accessible as possible.

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.

At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever

But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn't matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we're on it, dude,” he said.

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.