Doe Quotes - Page 268

I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.

The theory of evolution explains to us what our ancestry has been. It does not explain away our worth. Why should we be afraid to learn more about what we are?

The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?

Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright.

A good death does honour to a whole life.

A company does better the less it pays the CEO.

Every soldier, every cop who's faced with a decision to make, a life or death, does the best he or she can.

One does not start with facts. One starts with opinions.

What does sharing music mean? It means playing it for people.

Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.

Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of the seed that you lovingly planted.

Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse - and others will always choose for him.

The consumer mentality - we like something, what other flavor does it come in? We like that TV show, does it come in a book form? Does it come in a capsule? How about a soup?

It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time, but I will sometimes take public transportation if it's convenient, and it does surprise people, you see the heads turn.

Emasculation does seem to be a theme in the roles that I choose.

I don't feel any great need to subscribe to a certain notion of Buddhism that says "You have to do this" or "You have to do that." Buddhism does not prescribe rituals or prohibitions in the way many religions do.

Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.

If we're free to do what we want, why does government always have a plan for us?

With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode; But now all smiles, and now again all frowns, She's constant only in inconstancy.

Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.

A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.

One of the most difficult questions to answer in Christian work is, 'What do you expect to do?' You don't know what you are going to do. The only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing.......Hav e you been asking what God is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do. He reveals to you who he is.

How does one get bored of life?

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

The matter of making christening robes for caterpillars, it is not a difficult one; the difficulty is to get a frisky caterpillar to keep still while one is putting on his christening robe. And then it is a problem to keep it on, after one does get it on. I do have much troubles with caterpillars crawling out of their christening robes after I do get them on.