Doe Quotes - Page 345

My joke, which isn't really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs.

It may be true that only those minds which are habituated to think logically can safely trust their intuitive conclusions, on the theory that the subconscious level will do its kind of work as faithfully as the conscious does its kind.

In the popular arena, one can tell ... that the average man ... imagines that an industrious acquisition of particulars will render him a man of knowledge. With what pathetic trust does he recite his facts! He has been told that knowledge is power, and knowledge consists of a great many small things.

It is not that things give meaning to words; it is that meaning makes things "things." It does not make things in their subsistence; but it does make things in their discreteness for the understanding.

Man is an organism, not a mechanism; and the mechanical pacing of his life does harm to his human responses, which naturally follow a kind of free rhythm.

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

Express gratitude for what your spouse does for you. Express that love and gratitude often.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

You would think the fury of aerial bombardment would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces Are still silent. He looks on shock-pried faces. History, even, does not know what is meant.

The rules are all wrong today. The mandate of the media really does pre-date the founding of the United States.

There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn't be too surprised about that because we're evolved to understand things that move at a medium pace at a medium scale. We can't cope with the very tiny scale of quantum physics or the very large scale of relativity.

Absolutist morality doesn't have to come from religion but usually does.

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

The Universe does not owe us meaning.

This is a limiting factor in the way we have been able to help, ... We need to determine to what extent does an 'emergency declaration' go.

If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.

I've had many challenges - every entrepreneur does - it's the nature of the beast.

I regret what I did but it was in my personal time and I therefore hope that it does not reflect on the show

It's a funny thing because it's what the people say when they come across a ghost situation is that it does freak you out, but then you do get over it - for some reason you're not scared to come across it again.

My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.

And that does concern me, because we're not getting enough back for our taxes that we're paying. I think we really have to look at the whole sort of area.

God does not challenge weak people - he has laid this upon me and I'm not going to question it.