Doe Quotes - Page 263

That's what love does. When it's right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.

Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.

Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got.

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished.

When God does a miracle somehow you have to respond. When God does things for you - maybe we don't deserve them and we can never really repay God but God really wants us to respond to them. He doesn't want us to stay the same. So, for us to respond to what God has done in our lives is probably the same way he would want anyone to do - "Just tell people what I've done for you and what you've seen and heard." That's what we're doing.

Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.

A warrior does not beg for his life. ~Izuru Kira

Marvel does a great job of making their characters human.

A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from the outside. It comes inside your belief system, as it were, and affirms something you believe strongly. And then it says - well if you believe this (A) then why in the world can't you see that B is true?

What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such as the principle of mathematical induction. The validity of these premises is an entirely independent matter which can safely be left to philosophers.

Carlton does not pitch to the hitter, he pitches through him. The batter hardly exists for Steve. He's playing an elevated game of catch.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

Doesn't seem right, does it? A split second to lose him and a lifetime to grieve over him.

You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them, nor does the resulting quotient have any necessary relationship to anything in the real world.

Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life.

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then he complains of the decline of literature.

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

Alex Riley does a lot of things for me. I teach him so many things.

Food does not rank high on my list. I eat to live, and I'm very particular about my diet. It's strictly low fat diet for me.

Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.

You can't be a band and not play, and playing is so invigorating. It breathes life into you. So does creating something out of nothing.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me