Doe Quotes - Page 388

[A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing "what nobody does," or of not doing "what everybody does," is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly.

Just set one day's work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out. And that's the only way it does.

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.

Not only does the liberal paradigm not even come close to agreeing with the social and economic reality on the ground today, worse, it has largely congealed into a political religion. . .

Apple is so focused on its vision that it does things in a very careful, deliberate way.

Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.

Morality does not depend on religion.

If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.

Obedience does not consist in paying God back and thus turning grace into a trade. Obedience comes from trusting in God for more grace - future grace - and thus magnifying the infinite resources of God's love and power.

No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.

Should and should not's are the furthest form or non-reality there is even the best scientists can't track what does.

That voice that cries out doesn't have to be a weakling's does it?

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

Investment success does not require glamour stocks or bull markets.

Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is believable only because it happens.

It's very clear that Vladimir Putin has decided that he will eliminate his opponents and anyone who stands up for democracy and freedom. And he does so with relative impunity.

Anybody who believes the surge has not succeeded, militarily, politically and in most other ways, frankly, does not know the facts on the ground.

The US does not involve itself in what is happening in the world's largest democracy, nor does it intend to do so.

I've got a business manager and he'll just come right out and say, 'It wasn't the best part for you,' or 'It was okay, but I've seen you do better.' So when he does say, 'Wow that was great!,' then I know that he means it and it's something.

Your failure to be informed, does not make me a wacko.

When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.

Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.