Doe Quotes - Page 375

Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.

He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it.

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a woman.

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

"Everything is already there in...." How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - "No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that." - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.

Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.

The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live.

I just hope that the democratic will of the Zimbabwean people prevails. If it does we must move quickly to help restore stability and prosperity.

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.

Tears don't hurt like the ache does.

It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.

A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole world, seen and unseen, go to the making up of every human being?

... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.

Fortunately, like all good things, Christmas Day does come to an end.

Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done.

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it.

We earn what we get - most of us - and, sweet heaven help us! we get it. God does not always pay on Saturday - but He Pays.

It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he prints the paper.

Cognitive science is a rapidly developing area, so it could be that there are some surprises around the corner. That does seem to be kind of where the trend line is leading.

I suppose everybody does get attached to characters whether in movies or in stories, but I think that's part of the reason you get involved with literature is because there's somebody that grabs you about it and then you want to figure out why.

To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me.