Doe Quotes - Page 404

Being LGBT does not make you less human.

Nothing a housewife does is of value in capitalist terms because it does not take place on the market and therefore does not contribute to the Gross National Product.

For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.

She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'" "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.

An evil plan does mischief to the planner.

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.

Nature does not forgive.

It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankee, and operates differently upon them from what it does upon a Briton; ale must be drank in a fog and a drizzle.

The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck.

In the vernacular of my grandfather, 'I does not care.'

This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies or absorbs the transcendent vocabulary; it does not search for but establishes and imposes truth and falsehood.

What does this mean 'mailer daemon'? Satan, are you messing with the e-mail system already?

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.

The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.

But ah! what once has been shall be no more! The groaning earth in travail and in pain Brings forth its races, but does not restore, And the dead nations never rise again.

If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

The Bible does not profess to make men omniscient, but simply to tell them enough to make them happy and good, if they will believe it and live up to it.

Capitalism does what it does and money doesn't belong to anybody. It just stays in someone's wallet for a while, then it goes somewhere else. It always goes somewhere and it is always about to go somewhere.

Some music really does suck!

What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.

Music, to me, is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

A railroad may have to be carried over a gorge or arroya. Obviously it does not need an Engineer to point out that this may be done by filling the chasm with earth, but only a Bridge Engineer is competent to determine whether it is cheaper to do this or to bridge it, and to design the bridge which will safely and most cheaply serve.