Doe Quotes - Page 295

That's really what wealth does for you. It gives you freedom to make choices.

A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.

Restraining, saving, assuring your checkbook balance...what does all taht amount to? If I go broke one day I'll just take out loans

I think for television generally, the question that often arises is, "Does television lead, or does it follow?" You know, does it lead the conversation, or culture, or does it follow what's going on? And I think it does both.

Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the killer and the killed do not know each other, and in which,indeed, the very fact of mass death has the effect of making mass killing less reprehensible than the death of a single individual. In short, we have evolved in every respect except our ability to protect ourselves against human intelligence. Our knowledge is vast but does not embrace the workings of peace.

... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself.

Hume's paradox does hold: power is in the hands of the governed. If they refuse to accept it, you're in trouble, no matter how many guns you have.

A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing.

Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you.

Roger Federer moves like a whisper and executes like a wrecking ball. It is simply impossible to explain how he does what he does.

Happiness does not come from consumption of things.

Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.

I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?

Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.

Our God does not indulge us, but He is merciful toward our weaknesses as He strives to tutor us.

A women who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations.

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.

Witches, wolves, and moral friend There is horror that does not end War is waged and battles fought But have you stopped to count the cost? We are the ones backed by right We must strike with bold and might The cursed ones blamless be Warm them of the Hunters you see

The State certainly played a decisive role. I also believe that it may have stemmed from the rivalry itself. Grow or die, devour or die. That's the one problem that I have to wrestle with. I have to wrestle with whether or not rivalry in the free market does not ultimately lead to concentration, corporatism, and finally totalitarianism.

Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.

Hamas was born to destroy. Hamas does not know how to build. I doubt they will be able to build a modern Palestinian state and hope their lies will be exposed to the Palestinian public.

Hamas does not care about the lives of Palestinians. [They don't] care about the lives of Israelis or Americans. They don't care about their own lives. They consider dying for the sake of their ideology a way of worship.

What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does.

I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented. “Love does not make you a fool.” “He didn’t love me back.” “That does not make you a fool, either.” “Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?” “Sometimes never.