Doe Quotes - Page 318

A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn’t a nation.

I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well.

When a woman wears a low-cut gown, what does she expect you to do: look or not look?

My, my. A body does get around.

No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.

Christ and the life of Christ is at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before, and raising it up a witness against waste and want and war. It may confess Him, as in Tolstoi's work it does, or it may deny Him, but it cannot exclude Him; and in the degree that it ignores His spirit, modern literature is artistically inferior. In other words, all good literature is now Christmas literature.

Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power.

Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow Of slight beginnings to important ends.

One catfish does not make a creek, nor one hero a nation.

It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all times, in the wide spreading current of sound; that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found st

There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.

It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.

It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black.

If you look at somebody like 50 Cent, ain't nobody telling 50 what to do and how to do what he does. He has a vision of who he wants to be, and he instructs everybody along those lines.

Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.

Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?

Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late.

This manifesto only refers to future marriages, and does not affect past conditions.

The thing that goes the farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.

Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software.

The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a character address moral being in a universal and important way? If it does, then it's literature.

I would say on the other side of the equation that there were really some massive sales and massive enthusiasm for some films that were given big releases. And I'm not really sure that happens in quite the same way, small films getting big releases. Maybe it still does, I don't know.