Doe Quotes - Page 304

Well, we have the leverage in the sense that we supply all the wherewithal...or a major part of the wherewithal to finance or to pay for everything Israel does. We don't have any leverage in the sense that Israel controls the Senate. The Senate is at least...a subservient, in my opinion, much too much. We should be more concerned about the United States' interest, rather than doing the bidding of Israel. This is a most unusual development.

Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.

WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US.

There's nothing my housekeeper does that I can't do - and maybe better!

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles through, sneaks by, smuggles itself amidst the powers of destruction, knowing somewhere that God's plan for Creation is still at the very beginning.

Language does not make one an elite.

In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. Whatever has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; on the other hand, whatever is above all price, and therefore admits of no equivalent, has a dignity. But that which constitutes the condition under which alone something can be an end in itself does not have mere relative worth, i.e., price, but an intrinsic worth, i.e., a dignity.

Hamas hides among unwitting civilians, who have no way of controlling its activities. This fact does not give Israel the right to kill innocent non-combatants, not even unintentionally. Besides, murder is not "unintentional" when you know it is inevitable.

A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.

I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.

If you look at all different facets, where does it come from? Education. It comes from empowerment of young people. Because the bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop.

Nina Dobrev makes my job easy, its hard not to melt when she looks at you with those doe eyes.

...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.

The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.

I'm not responding to any of the personal attacks that come from Donald Trump, because he can say whatever he wants about me, and I have more votes than he does as we sit here today. More Americans have voted for me.

But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.

Much learning does not teach sense.

His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us!

Whether or not science can be applied to that mental construct [i.e. the designed entity] is a matter of availability. If there is body of scientific knowledge that can be applied, then it would be foolish not to exploit it. However, if there is none, it does not mean that the thing cannot be designed, made, and used safely.

It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

It is not that the university as such is against spiritual formation. It is just that often the university does not know how to integrate spiritual formation within its academic disciplines.