Doe Quotes - Page 355

Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.

Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.

Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.

You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.

Leadership isn't what a team says, but what it does.

Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.

Sometimes the hitter get a hit, sometimes I strike them out, but in niether case does anyone die.

The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth.

Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?

It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Can you see me? Can you hear me? Does anything I say mean anything to you?

Work helps. So does exercise. Stuff that numbs you, keeps you from thinking too much.

Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.

No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.

Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.

The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.

For what does it mean to be a hero? It requires you to be prepared to deal with forces larger than yourself.