Doe Quotes - Page 389

I was a great one as a kid for standing and just looking out a window for hours and hours and hours. Now the TV does that for me, except for the view changes immensely.

What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.

The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.

A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.

Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.

Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position.

Power is as power does.

Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.

You still remember your SAT scores. And everybody else does too. Everybody's forgotten everything about themselves, everything else about high school. They remember their SAT scores.

I don't want to comment on media outlets, but I will tell you that if the Republican Party does not evolve, the Republican Party is going to die.

It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight.

It may be true that every necessary war must also really be a just war; but it does not absolutely follow that every just war is a necessary war.

To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone.

I think what Obama does more than his amazing speaking ability is he's able to connect with voters. And it's that hope that he brings out in American citizens that we are all hungry for, that people get excited about Sen. Obama.

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.

Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.

Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.

What does the good ship bear so well? The cocoa-nut with its stony shell, And the milky sap of its inner cell.

weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.

The world is broken, and all our attempts to fix it will inevitably fail, and some day all life will be extinguished from the planet and there will be no one to remember that any of us ever did anything. But this fact, strangely, does not delegitimize hope, because every now and again we find evidence that hope is helpful. This evidence, in my opinion, should be celebrated-even as we lament and fight the devastation.

That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.

That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.

Language buries, but does not resurrect.

God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.

I realize how much [Mark] Twain fabricated things. I like it very much, but it's only half true. And it shows what he was trying to do, which was just entertain. Which he does very successfully, though the humor is almost dated now.