Doe famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
-- A. B. Simpson -
There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
-- A. B. Simpson -
If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
-- A. J. Kitt -
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.
-- A. N. Wilson -
Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.
-- A. P. Herbert -
While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
-- A. R. Rahman -
Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
-- A. S. Byatt -
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
-- A. S. Byatt -
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.
-- A. W. Tillinghast -
Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.
-- A.J. Cronin -
Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?
-- Aaron Allston -
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 -
Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
-- Aaron Levie -
The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
-- Aaron McGruder -
Yeah, I want to be liked, obviously. Everybody does.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
She may have had enough time to deal with things. What if she does come back? What will you do?" Grant asked me. What would I do? I'd beg.
-- Abbi Glines -
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.
-- Abby Elliott -
Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.
-- Abdul Kalam -
My worthiness is all my doubt His Merit- all my fear- Contrasting which my quality Does however appear
-- Abdul Kalam -
Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
-- Abraham Cowley -
There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!
-- Abraham Kuyper -
The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.
-- Abraham Maslow -
For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
-- Abraham Verghese -
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.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.
-- Abu Bakr -
Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.
-- Abu Hanifa -
The believer speaks little and does a lot, whereas the hypocrite speaks a lot and does little. When the believer speaks, it is with wisdom, when he is silent, it is in deep thought, when he sees, he takes lessons, and when he acts, it is a cure. If this is the way you are, then you are in the constant worship [of your Lord.]
-- Abu Nu`aym -
For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.
-- Abu Rayhan al-Biruni -
If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
-- Addison Mizner -
I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.
-- Adelaide Kane -
Love does not fail for you when you are rejected, betrayed or apparently not Loved. Love fails for you when you reject, betray and do not love. Therefore .. Love.
-- Adi Da -
The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He who does not possess the force to secure his Lebensraum in this world, and, if necessary, to enlarge it, does not deserve to possess the necessities of life. He must step aside and allow stronger peoples to pass him by.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing
-- Adrian Grenier -
God does business with those who mean business.
-- Adrian Rogers -
God does not change us in order to love us. He loves us in order to change us.
-- Adrian Rogers -
A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?
-- Adriana Lima -
To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.
-- Adrienne Clarkson -
One attacks those who possess things that one does not possess. The attack is all the more savage because the one who attacks is destitute and the one who is attacked is well provided. The one who attacks always considers himself to be in the position of legitimate offense.
-- Adrienne Monnier -
The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.
-- Adyashanti -
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
-- Aeschylus -
If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilisations that have preceeded it, and which have fallen (or collapse, or failed
-- African Spir -
It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)
-- Agatha Christie -
Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]
-- Agatha Christie -
In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?
-- Agatha Christie -
One does what one can, not what one cannot.
-- Agatha Christie -
Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule for ever.
-- Agathon -
It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does.
-- Agnes Moorehead -
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
-- Agnes Repplier -
I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this question in mind: to what extent does it feed into existing stereotypes and established prejudice?
-- Ahdaf Soueif -
If we have only one that can govern, and we chose him... does that mean we're not democratic?
-- Ahmed Ali -
Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
-- Ahmed Ben Bella -
Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
-- Aidan Chambers -
I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.
-- Aimee Mann -
I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.
-- Aisha Tyler -
Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view. When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn't cause suffering.
-- Ajahn Chah -
When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Things are simply the way they are. They don't give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering? No. It's simply a thorn. It doesn't give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately. Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.
-- Ajahn Chah -
In the industry, you do need some ethics - if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry. I guess the bottomline is, if there are two versions, then the better one will click.
-- Ajay Devgan -
The public does not know what is possible. We do.
-- Akio Morita -
He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses.
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna -
I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.
-- Akshay Kumar -
The best stroked putt in a lifetime does not bring the aesthetic satisfaction of a perfectly hit wood or iron shot. There is nothing to match the whoosh and soar, the almost magical flight of a beautifully hit drive or 5-iron.
-- Al Barkow -
Just because something happens to be legal does not make it moral, ethical or right. Abortion is perhaps one of the most dramatic examples of a situation where something is legal, but is very much a sin against God.
-- Al Barry -
Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
-- Al Pacino -
I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty. A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
-- Al Sharpton -
As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
-- Al Yankovic -
How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.
-- Al-Shafi‘i -
Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? - Of course it does - I'm not an idiot...
-- Alain Prost -
I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
-- Alan Alda -
I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery.
-- Alan Arkin -
Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion. You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom. You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
-- Alan Bennett -
I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.
-- Alan Brien -
Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living.
-- Alan Cohen -
Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.
-- Alan Cohen -
Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.
-- Alan Cohen