Doe Quotes - Page 370

The French debt will remain massive. Savings should be made with cuts to the generous social system, which grants illegal immigrants the same protections as it does our citizens.

People want their own laws to take precedence over those of the European Union. The French have understood that the EU does not live up to the utopia they were sold. It has distanced itself significantly from a democratic mode of operation.

...if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle.

Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true.

When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it.

Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.

There's no direction I can go in. If I met someone else, what meaning would there be left? If the pain goes, does that mean I never loved her? How can I get over it? I can't, I mustn't. But what else am I going to do?

He loves you, really he does. He'd love you even if it destroyed him. He matches you.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

There is no one who does not represent a danger to someone.

Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does.

Faith is a devout belief in what one does not understand.

Yes, hardships come. But I see in my life and in the lives of others how often something that does not have to be held as a hardship is dealt with by the mind as though it is.

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.

If we come to see that this world does not have the final word, then we open our mind and therefore our entire lives to experience the possibility of infinite possibilities.

The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.

History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.

the most powerful mind is the quiet mind. It is the mind that is present, reflective, mindful of its thoughts and its state. It doesn't often multitask, and when it does, it does so with a purpose.

Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.

Under the constitution, as the Danish queen I am bound to the Lutheran faith, but that does not exclude people of other faiths.

Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.

From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.