Doe Quotes - Page 261

What counts in the end is what the government does.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession.

Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.

The believer speaks little and does a lot, whereas the hypocrite speaks a lot and does little. When the believer speaks, it is with wisdom, when he is silent, it is in deep thought, when he sees, he takes lessons, and when he acts, it is a cure. If this is the way you are, then you are in the constant worship [of your Lord.]

The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

Yeah, I want to be liked, obviously. Everybody does.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

I don't know if it's rare, but from my experience, I think Suits does a lot more casting off of auditions than other shows.

The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.

Undue enmity with enemies does not serve the interests of the system. Enemies must be dealt with wisely and prudently.

A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.

What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?

Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.

Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.

Does that mean," asked Mack, "that all roads will lead to you?" "Not at all," smiled Jesus..."Most roads don't lead anywhere. What it does mean is that I will travel any road to find you.

The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rathe, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other. That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other.

Mutual fund manager performance does not persist and the return of stock picking is zero.

The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is a criminal.