Doe Quotes - Page 386

You know, I’m not saying, “Oh, because I play a good guy on TV, I need to suddenly be villainous in a movie.” I look at it more like: does this role has a kind of urgency for me in terms of, “can I not say no to it for whatever reason?”

Josh [Gad] does such an amazing job playing a lovable idiot. Not many people can do that, as convincingly as he can.

Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?

When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.

One doth but break-fast here, another dine; he that lives longest does but suppe; we must all goe to bed in another World.

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.

Why does it have to be like this?' I asked bitterly. 'Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all?

Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.

The only distinct meaning of the word "natural" is stated, fixed, or settled; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, i.e. to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once.

Anything that does not draw us closer to God takes us away from him.

Might does not make right, but right demands that those who hold to it should defend it with all their might.

Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?

What has been said does not simply belong to us.

Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.

I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.

Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which can be called "public" or "popular" opinion.

What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other.

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.

It's funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said 'Sparkle,' I thought, 'For real? It's really called 'Sparkle?'' I was wondering, too, how does 'Jordin Sparks as Sparkle' sound?

I love working out, but I need my brain to be someplace else as my body does the work.

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

That is to say that despair does not seem to be in any way potentially to be productive.