Doe Quotes - Page 323

The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?

It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.

Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.

Anyone who takes a seat in the Bundestag does so within a Europeanized constitutional framework.

Because of Jesus the sin we cannot forget God does not remember.

If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.

Then why does Kenneth Anger wear a picture locket on a chain around his neck? On one side of the locket there is a picture of you; on the other there is an image of a frog with an inscription: "Bobby Beausoleil changed into a frog by Kenneth Anger." A voodoo amulet, so to say.

I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful.

But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.

Donald Trump does not take criticism well, nor does he appreciate reporting on his life.

[ My mother] went, OK, I've read the Bible. I've read the Bible again. I'm reading the Bible again. OK, let me - where does this Bible come from? What does this Old Testament speak - who are the Israelites? Who - what is Judaism? And then she went, and I'm going to study that. And, you know, she wanted to almost get to the core.

Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.

It seems that nearly every American either has a share of federal spending or has a close relative who does.

He is a thermostat leader, not a thermometer...He does not react to the environment he's in. He changes every environment he's in.

I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.

You are only allowed to treat the content of your intuition as evidence if the intuition stays after you have exposed it to cognitive psychotherapy; in some cases you have to reject it even if it does indeed stay.

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.

Weight control does have to be for a lifetime or you'll be yo-yoing.

It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel.

Clever is as clever does.

While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.