Doe Quotes - Page 310

Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons.

Does Michael Cole deserve to take Jim Ross' place as a commentator?

Somewhere a woman is praying her toddler wins a beauty pageant. I say this because sometimes people wonder why God lets tornadoes happen.

That which does not kill you usually circles around and tries again.

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

When Jesus directs us to pray, "Thy kingdom come," he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence.

The only clear thing is that we humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know it. The birds have no such power, nor do the insects, nor does any mammal. Yet if we have the capacity to destroy the earth, so, too, do we have the capacity to protect it.

He who cries, 'What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,' does not know even that.

Only a government that does not trust its citizens would refuse them the right to bear arms.

The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?

I rewind the TV every two minutes. If someone does something interesting, I have to see it over and over again.

A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.

The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I'm not going to die.

It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.

Directing is such a crucial part of the writing process; you start directing and you see what does not work. "Oh, God, what was I thinking?" and then you can rearrange it.

The United States has been very clear that we did have to have some political basis to make clear that that cessation of hostilities was not going to countenance a return to the status quo ante. This resolution does that. And now we're going to see who is for peace and who isn't.

For me, I don't really see a lot of the things I do as what I do, I see that as what our team does. It just happens to be that I'm the quarterback in those situations.

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period

Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.

I do not mind at all that Newton is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction.

My top lady advice is to make eye contact early on - before introductions, even - and just never break it, no matter what she does. Keep that dead-eyed lock on her. Works like a charm.

There must be areas in which a particular character does not represent you.

The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these days is clearly unconstitutional. The original idea, as expressed by James Madison, was that states would do 95 percent of the governing. Today, they are little more than administrative subdivisions of the central empire.

Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written.