Doe Quotations | Page 3

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

And that does concern me, because we're not getting enough back for our taxes that we're paying. I think we really have to look at the whole sort of area.

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

I'm not going to change my teeth or get a nose job. That manufactured perfection does nothing for me.

How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb? Many in body, one in mind.

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

Hugh Grant does a great job with his style. Somehow understated yet timeless and seems to get it. He does it on and off camera.

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.

Whenever I'm confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.

Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?

Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

You must know in your heart before anyone else does what is going to be good and then follow through.

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process there are innumerable equally attractive solutions.

I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

Connecting with people is not hard. I love the interaction and the feedback after shows. It does take some time, but the fans appreciate it which makes it worth it.

The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.

Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

I didn't know the word no, because I wanted to please everybody all the time. Every kid does

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.

I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

Food does not rank high on my list. I eat to live, and I'm very particular about my diet. It's strictly low fat diet for me.

I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.

Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.

Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.

I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.

You do have demons throughout the week; every coach does.

I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.

You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

I prefer it when the conductor follows me. It is more difficult to work with a conductor who does not listen - even if I understand that sometimes it makes sense when one person is ruling everything. But for bel canto, I have to have a conductor who listens and supports me.

Either the law exists, or it does not.

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.

Does Hollywood do movies about terrorism? Yeah. And why do they do that? Because it sells.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.

When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons.

He has so often told me he is madly in love with me, but what does that mean when I haven't had a good word from him in three months?

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

See, what I don't like listening to is when writers go, 'And then the person cries.' 'Or the person does this.' It's there, but it's not the Bible. I wait and see what happens to me on the day.

FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.

I was of the type who gets bullied rather than the one who does the bullying, which I'm glad about. I'd rather be that than a bully.

That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were

If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists.

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.

Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.

If each one of us does our bit, we will be helping to keep global warming from harming our countries.

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

So yes, European decision making is not pretty. But it does work.

What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?

Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

Right is right, even if no one else does it.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.