Doe Quotes - Page 421

I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

Easy does it is what I'm looking for.

What is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive - and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.

Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.

That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.

Into what boundless life, does education admit us. Every truth gained through it expands a moment of time into illimitable being--positively enlarges our existence, and endows us with qualities which time cannot weaken or destroy.

The devil has been painted swarthy, cloven-footed, horned, and hideous. Do we expect to see him in that shape? O, surely it would be better for us, if he did come in that shape! The trouble is the devil never does come in that shape. He comes by chance, with unregistered signals, and in all sorts of counterfeit presentiments.

Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.

A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.

We have to argue forcefully and demand that the government recognise that these programmes do not prevent - mass surveillance does not prevent acts of terrorism.

We have the right of revolution. Revolution does not always have to be weapons and warfare; it's also about revolutionary ideas.

When you start out as a band, you stake your claim and you go for it. And there's a part of you that dreams it and imagines it and does everything to get there, but you can't ever expect to sell 8, 10, 12, 20 million albums. It becomes this thing that you really have to figure out as you go.

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.

Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture.

Whatever the lady does is wrong. I do not know of a single right decision taken by her.

[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute . . .

Does there exist a single instance of a saint asserting that he himself possessed the gift of miracles?

The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.

There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.

When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.

It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?

A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.