Doe Quotes - Page 303

Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.

No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.

Here's a tip. If you touch a girl, even as joke, and she pushes you off, leave... her... alone. Don't touch her. Anywhere! Just stop. Your touch does nothing but sicken her.

Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free.

Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.

Don't blame yourself, or worry. Neither does a bit of good.

Silly gardeners! We buy pretty, comfortable benches and position them oh so carefully. But does the gardener ever sit? No! We perch momentarily and then jump up to do that next thing we see.

Does what you think of you determine your worth?

It is always hard to believe that the will to change something does not produce an immediate change.

Tastykakes are just another of the many advantages of living in Jersey. They’re made in Philly and shipped to Trenton in all their fresh squishiness. I read once that 439,000 Butterscotch Krimpets are baked every day. And not a heck of a lot of them find their way to New Hampshire. All that snow and scenery and what good does it do you without Tastykakes?

The old beliefs, of course, and the rational approach, are everywhere reinforced, and so it does have a great weight. The magical approach has far greater weight, if you use it and allow yourselves to operate in that fashion, for it has the weight of your basic natural orientation.

there have been too many events in my life, and in the lives of my friends, which have defied any kind of scientific explanation. Science does not have appropriate tools for the dissection of the spirit.

I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.

Ugh! Why can't Hell stay where it's at? Why does it always have to break loose?

Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral beings. History is more complicated than that.

The man who tells me an indelicate story does me an injury.

I moved to leave, and Dylan actually grabbed my shoulders. I was so surprised that i forgot to karate-chop his elbows and break his arms.' “I don’t want anything to happen to you,” he said urgently. “What you want does not matter here,” I said slowly and carefully. I hoped Dylan was sensitive enough to read between the lines, to the subtext of: Let go of me or I’ll kill you.

The question is, when does the therapeutic community end and the reality kick back in Then, what do you do with them

Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.

Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.

Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances...If Churchill had had a speech write in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.

Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.

Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.

We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's told for companionship and to teach something religious, of religious reverence, about real life, in this real world which literature should (and here does) reflect.