Quotes about doe
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1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
Source: The Works Of John Adams, Second President Of The United States
Context: Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers. Rulers are no more than attorneys, agents, and trustees, of the people; and if the cause, the interest, and trust, is insidiously betrayed, or wantonly trifled away, the people have a right to revoke the authority that they themselves have deputed, and to constitute other and better agents, attorneys and trustees.
Source: Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Source: Magic Strikes
Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
Context: A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself. A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.
“A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.”
Source: The Sweetest Thing
Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 15, The Song Is Over
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened?”
Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad
“Prancing around with marshmallowss on your nipples does *not* constitute living your life fully!”
Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad
Variant: I don’t like keeping her in the dark,” Jace said.
“We’ll tell her in a week. What difference does a week make?”
Jace gave him a look. “Two weeks ago you were dead.”
“Well, I wasn’t suggesting two weeks,” said Sebastian. “That would be insane.
Source: City of Lost Souls
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Query XVII
1780s, Notes on the State of Virginia
“To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.”
Source: The Souls of Black Folk
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“Space echoes like an immense tomb, yet the stars still burn. Why does the sun take so long to die?”
Source: The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (1992), Chapter 5: "Dead God", p. 60 (original emphasis)
Context: God is nowhere to be found, yet there is still so much light! Light that dazzles and maddens; crisp, ruthless light. Space echoes like an immense tomb, yet the stars still burn. Why does the sun take so long to die? Or the moon retain such fidelity to the Earth? Where is the new darkness? The greatest of all unknowings? Is death itself shy of us?
“Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.”
Source: Clockwork Prince
Source: River Marked
“Time may heal wounds, but it does not erase the scars.”
Source: Briar Rose (1992), Chapter 12 (p. 72)
“Only after a person has their heart broken does the world appear as it truly is.”
Source: Perfected Sinfulness
“You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.”
Source: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“It is a risk to love.
What if it doesn't work out?
Ah, but what if it does.”
“It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.”
Source: The Silence of the Lambs
Source: The Kiss of Deception
“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me.”
How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1928)
Context: Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It is beyond me.
But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small things priceless and worthless. A first-water diamond, an empty spool, bits of broken glass, lengths of string, a key to a door long since crumbled away, a rusty knife-blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be, a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower or two still a little fragrant. In your hand is the brown bag. On the ground before you is the jumble it held — so much like the jumble in the bags, could they be emptied, that all might be dumped in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place — who knows?
Source: Disgrace (1999), p. 3-4
Context: Although he devoted hours of each day to his new discipline, he finds its first premise, as enunciated in the Communications 101 handbook, preposterous: 'Human society has created language in order that we may communicate our thoughts, feelings, and intentions to each other.' His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origins of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.
Source: My Utmost for His Highest: Selections for the Year
Source: Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
Source: A Life At Work: The Joy Of Discovering What You Were Born To Do
“No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake”
Source: A Kiss in Time
Source: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Variant: Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.
Source: 1Q84
Source: The Red Pyramid
Source: Foundation and Empire
“Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.”
“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on”
Variant: Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
Source: Magic Bites
“And how does God speak to you?"
"In the language of everything that is beautiful.”
Source: A Soldier of the Great War
“What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?”
Source: The Witch Of Portobello
“Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.”
“When an evil masochist dies, does he go to hell, or would heaven be a better punishment?”
Part Three, Ch. 11
Source: On the Road (1957)
Context: In 1942 I was the star in one of the filthiest dramas of all time. I was a seaman, and went to the Imperial Café on Scollay Square in Boston to drink; I drank sixty glasses of beer and retired to the toilet, where I wrapped myself around the toilet bowl and went to sleep. During the night at least a hundred seamen and assorted civilians came in and cast their sentient debouchements on me till I was unrecognizably caked. What difference does it make after all? — anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.