Doe Quotes
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I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I don’t think anybody does.
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What if what has been said one time not only does not cease to be said but always recommences, and not only recommences but also imposes upon us the idea that nothing has ever truly begun, having from the beginning begun by beginning again.
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Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it.
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A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn’t a nation.
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Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?
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Surely He does not give us hearts so we may spend our lives ignoring them.
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When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?
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The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.
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What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.
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Who does not believe his first passion eternal?
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It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.
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The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
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Everything is eternal Nothingness does not exist No thing has ever become nothing And nothing has never become something What is has always been and will always be
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There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.
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Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.
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Money doesn't grow on trees but it does hang out in lakes
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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.
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Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, "Why does Jesus' word still stay around?" It's incredibly honest and it's good.
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The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
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Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.
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I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.
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What does the brain matter compared with the heart?
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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
