Doe Quotes - Page 289

Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.

It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'.

Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.

Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced.

The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.

The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea.

Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.

Batista does look pretty mad.

Everybody has a different strategy, but everybody agrees that active management does not beat the market.

Two cannibals eating a clown. One asks the other, 'Does this taste funny to you?'

The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?

Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.

There is no creation without faith and hope. There is no faith and hope that does not express itself in creation.

What is essential does not die but clarifies.

Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.

For if I am to love truly and freely, I must be able to give something that is truly my own to another. If my heart does not first belong to me, how can I give it to another?

There is no man so low down that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself.

He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world.

For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.

The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.

Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it?

Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world

We cannot have a free market since it does not really set us free. It's free for interest, speculation and consumerism to create false needs.