Doe Quotes - Page 416

Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes.

France does not practice revenge.

How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.

This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.

A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.

Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.

Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.

The fact that God knows everything does not mean that He is directly causing everything. He respects our freedom at our level. He makes it possible for us to act freely. If He didn't, we wouldn't act at all - we wouldn't be at all.

I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

Love doesn't last." She didn't know how much showed her pale face. Meribah's face softened. "Sometimes it does. If it's the right kind.

I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

That's just the way I end up making meaning from the direct material in my life - I think what makes it accessible is the desire to communicate, more than anything. It does make it accessible, but that's not what motivates me.

Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.

Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?

Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency.