Doe Quotes - Page 369

Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

The exception does not prove the rule.

Public interest criteria does not mean criteria that the public decides are in its interest. It means that the elite - via various appointed bodies - decide what the public's interest is for them.

The media simply does not understand Econ 101.

If Donald Trump does lose, being revealed as this bizarre personality, Ted Cruz is not going to be what Republicans are looking for in 2020.

The studies that show the reason Washington real estate is booming and there are so many lobbyists in town, it does pay.

Mitt Romney looks like a president. I mean, he really does.

I felt like looking at the season to this point, we probably hadn't taken enough shots downfield to loosen thing up, ... It does serve a purpose even if you don't hit it. There's nothing that will get a cornerback to back off a little bit than knowing he got beat even if you hit it or not.

When Benedict dies, he will have the pleasure of standing before whatever furious God he believes in, to answer for how it was that he knew for undeniable fact that one -- if not dozens -- of his priests repeatedly molested, abused and/or raped young children for decades, and he did nothing to stop it. How much does God believe the pope's argument that Vatican PR trumps pedophilia? Joe Ratzinger, 82, will soon find out.

With acting, there are a lot of subtleties and non-verbals involved. If someone is over there, getting eaten by a shark, there's a non-verbal way of how to act that. There's a certain nuance to acting that does not come intuitively to me. It's something I still have to learn.

Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.

Faith does not contradict reason. Faith exceeds reason.

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.

God's love for us is uncoerced and so freely given that it does not demand a response. But so freely is it given that it creates freedom in the recipient, so that our response is not one of obligation or duty, nor the returning of a favor, but uncoerced love.

The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus.

Can't say no one makes money from Twitter now. The NBA does.

Something is being released in the spiritual realm, when it does go to the phone. When the mantle gets passed to you go to the phone and sow a $70 tithe to the $700 pledge.

With animation, if something does not fit, you always have the time to change it. When you make a live-action movie, when your days of shooting are over, they are over forever.

This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.

The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.

When you have the humility to listen to the Bible it does more than enlighten us, it transforms us.