Doe Quotes - Page 411

Irri and Jhiqui argued about Rakharo. “You are too skinny for him,” Jhiqui was saying. “You are almost a boy. Rakharo does not bed with boys. This is known.” Irri bristled back. “It is known that you are almost a cow. Rakharo does not bed with cows.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him

Sartre is one example of someone who does just this. Every text is, after all, a human document and whatever Kierkegaard thought about God was clearly a matter of human thought that can, in principle, be retrieved and interpreted by other human beings. A phenomenological approach to religion must, it seems to me, adopt the old adage: nothing human is alien to me.

What it does remind us is that 'God' is not to be separated from the quest for the Kingdom of God and is not and cannot be the object of any detached 'scientific' contemplation. Heidegger's critique of onto-theology is also driving a wedge between speaking of God and the aims of science - not so as to get rid of God but rather to free God from a false objectification.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist? O'Brien: Of course he exists. Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me? O'Brien: You do not exist.

That one who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day in which he lives, needs to reorganize his life. And the sooner the better, for pure enjoyment throughout life has more to do with one's happiness and efficiency than almost any other single element.

I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.

That's the issue that I've been exploring: How did the Republic turn into the Empire? That's paralleled with: How did Anakin turn into Darth Vader? How does a good person go bad, and how does a democracy become a dictatorship? It isn't that the Empire conquered the Republic, it's that the Empire is the Republic.

The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright.

The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.

The arc of the celebrity phenomenon ultimately is: everything turns to dust and everything does go away.

He that staies does the businesse.

But who does hawk at eagles with a dove?

Thornes whiten yet doe nothing.

The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.

It costs more to doe ill then to doe well. [It costs more to do ill than to do well.]

It's more paine to doe nothing then something.

If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand.

Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.

Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]

Who paies the Physitian, does the cure.

Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion.