Doe Quotations

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen he's become a different person.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Steve Coogan does something for me. He is so naughty, but I quite fancy him.

Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

I was in the fashion shows in Milan; I was seventeen, I was doing like 100 shows. People were asking, 'How does it feel to be the model of the moment?' It was hard for me to answer as myself. I barely spoke English.

Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the scope of the massacres that it has committed does not permit it to coexist.

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.

Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.

I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground.

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.

I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

I've certainly had to bite my tongue on occasion and live to fight another day, so to speak, on certain things. But when you're new and fresh, you come out and think, 'I don't want to screw my chance up, so I'll go along with what everybody else does.'

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.

I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

Does a man need to know what a peplum is? Probably not.

Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?

I think audiences like to see their favorite actor handle himself physically on screen, however he does it. He can wrestle, or box, or he can know karate.

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be - or maybe a lot trickier.

The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.

I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. Nor does it have to petition those in power to do something about a situation. It can face the authorities with a new fact and say: Accept this new situation which we have created.

Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.

When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has different properties, and a persons natural tendency is to reject that organ.

I have been very clear to everybody that just because I'm getting married does not mean I call myself a straight

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.

No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.

If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds.

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.

The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar.

Vodka does not ease back pain. But it does get your mind off it.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something

We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.

So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

I loved dressing for my pregnant body. A pregnant woman's body is so beautiful. Towards the end, it does get harder, and then it became all about flats and comfortable maxi dresses.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

It isnt always hard work that does the job.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.

Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.

It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.

Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.

Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

Judgment is a delicate thing and does not come overnight.

The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.

Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.

Look at my face. Does it look like I can take a good hit?

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.