Doe Quotes - Page 258

Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here.

A person at an eminent position does not need money. A chairman of a big company or something like that, I can’t buy him and the country does not have enough money to ‘buy’ him.

Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!

Maybe Louis does have a golden willy.

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it.

Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.

Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.

There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.

An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.

Gravity is of the very essence of imposture; it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself.

What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The texture of the world, its filigree and scrollwork, means that there is the possibility for beauty here, a beauty inexhaustible in its complexity, which opens to my knock, which answers in me a call I do not remember calling, and which trains me to the wild and extravagant nature of the spirit I seek.

Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does.

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?

You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.

God does not pay at the end of every day, but in the end He pays.

I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.

When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.

Sometimes when I wake up, I forget that she's gone and then I remember and my heart drops like it does when you miss a step or trip over a kerb.

I prefer it when the conductor follows me. It is more difficult to work with a conductor who does not listen - even if I understand that sometimes it makes sense when one person is ruling everything. But for bel canto, I have to have a conductor who listens and supports me.

My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.