Doe Quotes - Page 319

What’s your cause? Does it move you to tears? What is it that moves you passionately?

Many, many things are dangerous in our world, commercials and TV are dangerous, and so is the world of sitcoms. But nobody does anything about them because they're turning in alot of money.

I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be - or maybe a lot trickier.

My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.

Just as I suspected, my room does look different, post-eclipse. It looks smalled, like it can't contain me anymore. After all, I've got a whole new world to see.

Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least.

Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent.

The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.

The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.

The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.

I want to communicate. I do; every artist does. That's why you're an artist.

Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen.

Those whose purpose does not match yours are not wrong; they have their mission, and finding their own purposeful way may involve many detours and acts that seem destructive.

The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic.

We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.

It's going to be tough because the economy is going to be getting worse for a while. And it might fall off a cliff if this doesn't pass. But nobody will ever know that if it does.

Does management resist the institutional imperative?

When people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything.

Like most trends, at the beginning it's driven by fundamentals, at some point speculation takes over. What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end.

In the search [of a deal], we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: It pays to be active, interested, and open-minded, but it does not pay to be in a hurry.

Does the business have a consistent operating history?

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.

The Christian church does not need more popular preaching, but more unpopular preaching.