Doe Quotes - Page 391

I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal.

Just because you have a right to do something in America does not mean it is the right thing to do.

So time doesn't count, and place does?' I said this to tease her. When I was a man, I liked teasing her and she went along with it, consenting, for it reminded us both of a sadness that had passed.

The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing.

I don't know if humor has a place for it but being light hearted does and not to take it too seriously.

We go through these metamorphous just like a caterpillar does before becoming a butterfly and the middle of that metamorphosis it always feels uncomfortable.

The winter does what it can for its children.

Deceit is the mark of evil. Even if the evil messenger does not appear in person, the test is the same.

No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.

He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.

Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?

The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.

He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.

I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.

One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.