Doe Quotes - Page 308

The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

Understand that Bluestar does not make this offer lightly if you wish to train with us, we will have to take you into our Clan. You must either live with us and respect our ways, or return to your Twolegplace and never come back. You cannot live with a paw in each world.

On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.

what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.

Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

Football isn't who we are, it doesn't necessarily define us. It's part of our life and it always will be, but football won't define us. Excellence does.

Nothing I did contributed to me having cancer, so I can't sit back and say, 'Oh why me.' Why not me? Why does tragedy always have to hit someone else?

If liberalism has grown so weak and ineffective, why does it evoke such alarm on the part of conservatives? It turns out that while liberals are weak and spineless, they are also sneaky and clever.

If the gods have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not all-powerful. If they are neither able nor willing, they are neither all-powerful or benevolent. If they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, why does it exist?

Focus not on what he or she does, but on keeping to your higher purpose. Your own purpose should seek harmony with nature itself. For this is the true road to freedom.

One of the most important things a gardener does is look. The rewards are immeasurable.

Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.

I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands. For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else.

I don't have a set pattern. I take things as they come. Usually with a great amount of relish. I just lay back and wait for it to happen. And it usually does.

One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse still, when one betrays them does one realize their power.

The novelist's--any writer's--object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, isfatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen.

The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.

Nothing trains and teaches so powerfully as love. Love attracts. it does not coerce. If the aim of parents is to teach their children to love God they must show their love for Him by loving each other and loving the children.

In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.

The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation.

experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.