Doe Quotes - Page 300

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes his calculation, sets his machine to make the appropriate effect on him. The synthetic writer constructs and creates his own reader; he does not imagine him as resting and dead, but lively and advancing toward him. He makes that which he had invented gradually take shape before the reader's eyes, or he tempts him to do the inventing for himself. He does not want to make a particular effect on him, but rather enters into a solemn relationship of innermost symphilosophy or sympoetry.

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.

I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.

Electronic music, for me, has been the only real pioneering music that actually does push boundaries and is constantly futuristic.

But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.

"That which does not kill me makes me stronger" is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.

The question is how does Hilary Clinton fit in this broader network? She's a centralising cog. You've got a lot of different gears in operation from the big banks like Goldman Sachs and major elements of Wall Street, and Intelligence and people in the State Department and the Saudis.

An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.

God does not believe in our God.

Fairness does not consist so much of everybody's doing the same thing, but of everybody's being willing to do something that others don't want to do.

Fame's carapace does not allow for easy breathing.

Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.

Death and adversity come to us all, but so does life everlasting!

Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.

True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.

It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.

Everyone who does the best he can is a hero.

Your worth as a person does not come from what you are paid. It comes from who you are and what you give.

Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.

In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.

Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?

Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.

The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.