Doe Quotes - Page 377

The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

Does my new feminism make me look fat?

Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.

I want to ask him if it’s possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?

So now I just assume that it won't work, and that if it does work, I'll lose it anyway. This is meant to protect me, although it doesn't, because somehow the hope sneakily finds its way in. I'm never aware of the hope until it's gone, whooshed away like a rug pulled from under my feet, each time I hear another "I'm sorry.

In companies, there are three activities that should be labeled better. First there is the "CORE" which is the thing the company does that its customers pay it to do.

However, there's nothing more inspiring than a company that does solve problems and those problems are captured as part of a larger story.

Chaos, if it does not harden into a pattern of disorder, may be more fruitful than a regularity too easily accepted and a success too easily achieved.

The American oligarchy increasingly has less in common with the American people than it does with the equivalent oligarchies in Germany or Mexico or Japan.

The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?

I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.

Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.

If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline and eventually collapse. There is no middle ground

They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.

I always had a Twitter account. I always had an Instagram account. I was always active on it, always spoke my mind. To me, it's really weird that I got so many followers and people that pay attention the way they do. It's hilarious, actually, because people didn't used to listen to me at all. I used to be like, "Does anybody hear me talkin'?"

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

It does feel like the middle ground has fallen out. I'm only saying that from personal experience, saying, "I'd like to make that movie" and hearing, "Oh, they're not making those types of movies anymore."

He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.

We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.

True, the free market ignores the poor precisely as it does not recognize the wealthy - it is 'no respecter of persons'

What [Prozac] does is completely annihilate the sexual drive, so the question of passion hardly arises.

The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.

Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation - that is what makes it revolutionary - but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims - that is what makes it realistic.

Obama really does recognize the threats that are out there; I think he understands the world. He understands the role of America in that troubled world.

There is a genius on one side of every trade and a dolt on the other, but which is which does not become clear until much later.