Doe Quotes

• I am part-demon, part-human. What else does that make me?" She answered his question with one of her own. "I am part-centaur, part-human. Does that make me a mutant?" "It makes you a miracle." She held his gaze. "Exactly.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • She
  • Question
  • Miracle

• Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.

  

  J. Budziszewski
  • Reality
  • Doe
  • Shapes

• Only death does not lie.

  

  Sadegh Hedayat
  • Death
  • Lying
  • Doe

• Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow Of slight beginnings to important ends.

  

  William Davenant
  • Important
  • Fate
  • Doe

• The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

  

  Adolf Loos
  • Work
  • Art
  • Home

• The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • May
  • Church

• Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Courage
  • Might
  • Behavior Change

• If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.

  

  Albert Warren "Tillie" Tillinghast
  • Nature
  • Golf
  • Individuality

• Does God proclaim Himself in the wonders of creation? No. All things proclaim Him, all things speak. Their beauty is the voice by which they announce God, by which they sing, "It is you who made me beautiful, not me myself but you.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Voice

• I think that's where it comes into play, when you are just looking at a document or whatever and you see the word "disability." Does that automatically trigger something in you that denies someone their personhood?

  

  Zach Anner
  • Thinking
  • Play
  • Doe

• Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Want
  • Doe
  • Hearing

• It’s sad, y’know, what money does to people.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Knows
  • Doe

• Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Country
  • House
  • Doe

• How much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Women
  • Money
  • Power

• Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Challenge
  • Challenges

• I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.

  

  Aaron Belz
  • Why
  • Mean
  • Language

• I've always respected what Wayne does, and Wayne, to me is definitely one of the greatest in the game right now.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Games
  • Doe
  • Wayne

• You can't point a camera at someone and find out what's in their head. But it does the next best thing - it lets you speculate.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Doe
  • Next
  • Cameras

• Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • May
  • She
  • Experience

• I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Live
  • Suffering
  • Catholic

• Directing the process by the mind can only lead to difficulty, for the mind does not know. Commitment to the Truth is sufficient for the process to unfold.

  

  A. H. Almaas
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Commitment

• The point is that only one thing matters in this world, to prepare oneself for death. One can try to be as comfortable as possible until one dies... Because being comfortable does not have any meaning either. It just does not. Everything is only a big meaninglessness that one must bear.

  

  Odd Nerdrum
  • World
  • Trying
  • Death

• To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.

  

  William McDonough
  • Mean
  • Understanding
  • Design

• Sure God's all powerful, but does he have lips?

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
  • Powerful
  • Doe
  • Lips

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