Doe Quotes - Page 296

The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change its poignancy?

Ideas don’t make money, effort does.

I don't want a government shutdown. I don't think anyone does.

Method helps intuition when it is not transformed into dictatorship. Intuition augments method if it does not instill anarchy. In every moment of our semiotic existence, method and intuition complement one another.

Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

One swallow alone does not make a summer.

The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.

Washington continues to encourage ever more ill-considered lending in a misguided attempt to stave off needed market corrections. The currently proposed combination of a nationwide infrastructure spending orgy plus tax-cut bribes does nothing to remedy that.

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?

The Golden Rule works. It really does. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Kindness begets kindness.

How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your senses are the midwives of intelligence.

Today is a new day. Your future does not equal your past.

I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does.

Failure is good as long as it does not become a habit.

Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth.

The government never does anything successfully.

If the audience knows what's behind the door and the actor does not, that's comedy. If both the audience and the actor do not know, that's mystery!

Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.

All experiences, what does not kill you makes you stronger and tougher I think. Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant, unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, season you somehow and you learn from them.

Kings need the world, but the world does not need the kings! Let them disappear like the horrible ghosts of the nightmares!

Once you let the words go, you have no control over how they're printed or what the media does with them. So there's no point in trying to make plans or to control it.

Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job...You can have a job and still be unfulfilled.

One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?

An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.