Doe Quotes - Page 379

What does my soul look like to you?' 'I couldn't reduce it to words if I tried, but its beauty is unsurpassed.

What you call love does not sound very beautiful.

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

I wonder if she has figured out that I'll never love Linden, especially not in the way she does, and that he'll never love anyone the way he loves her. I wonder if she realizes, despite all her efforts to train me, that I can never take her place.

Sex is like crying, it does look pretty if you really do it

You ask yourself "What is love? Am I in love?", when what you should be asking is, "What is not love?", ma petite. What is it that this man does for you that is not done out of love?

...you don't need ghosts to be haunted. Memory does that just fine without any supernatural help at all.

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

When you eat pure food that isn't genetically modified, your physical and mental state does improve and it's worth the effort to make that happen.

When I encountered "The Lady of Shallot" (to take a "for instance" allusion from the many in the book, this one from the "Etiology" section) it was still considered a "great poem." What does that poem - or rather a particular presentation of that poem (hey, admire this!) - do to a young woman?

Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date--one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone.

Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do?

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?

Getting back to inflation, it is important to note that the producer price Index does not reflect wage pressures - and that is where the inflation threat really lies.

One does not have humor. It has you.

Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded of them, but it is in their nature.

He who walks on tip-toe does not walk on solid ground.

Nature does not have to insist.

Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.

A violent wind does not last for a whole morning.

He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.

He does not struggle with anyone - thus no one can vanquish him.

I definitely have to keep stepping up to the plate and be aggressive when he does that.