Doe Quotes - Page 392

Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.

He who loves not flowers, has lost all love and fear of God.

We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.

The question is not, 'Do you have a problem?' The question is, 'Does the problem have you?'

Just because something didn't work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

Happiness does not depend on your circumstances; it depends on your will. It's a choice that you make.

I've certainly had to bite my tongue on occasion and live to fight another day, so to speak, on certain things. But when you're new and fresh, you come out and think, 'I don't want to screw my chance up, so I'll go along with what everybody else does.'

What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.

When you are sitting in a room and somebody does something or says something and a thought comes, an idea or a melody - you have to just grab it while it's there because it will go away.

Judging by your performance at the Olympics, it don't look too bright for your future does it!

Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in Pakistan, we're spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?

I was angry. I was kind of looking for a fight. I didn't want to talk to you guys in the press, because initially, understandably, all they wanted to talk to me about was, you know, what does it feel like?

Every Iraqi would I know would rather have Saddam back... I mean like... that does not even take rocket science.

What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.

Does fate ever play by the rules?

Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?" I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.

Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?

Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?

Fashion does seem to have a 20s comeback every few seasons, and I completely see why. Its a very feminine look: the fabrics and the shapes are very pretty and distinctive.

You don’t marry for love. What does love got to do with marriage? I spit on love and marriage. You marry for money.

I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.

Nature does not pile up 1000 hogs, then hope for the best.

Of course it does on opening night, but I've never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop it.

If she's really psychic," Zack said when he saw Tanisha's photo at school, "why does she need a doorbell?