Doe Quotes - Page 11

• Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Powerful, Thinking, People

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• Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Two, Comedian, Taste

  Twitter post from Jun 03, 2013

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• But then you slammed a door handle into my gut. And when a girl does that to a guy; it means she likes him.

  Lisa McMann

  Girl, Mean, Doors

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• Life's sloppy...You think you know how tomorrow's going to be, you've made your plans, everything is set in place, and then the unimaginable happens. Life catches you by surprise. It always does. But there's good mixed in with the bad. It's there. You just have to recognize it.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Thinking, Tomorrow, Surprise

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• All of which raises the question – your task, burden, privilege, call it what you like – a question which men and women, great and not-so of every color, creed and sexual persuasion have asked since they first had the language to do so, and probably before: Does Anything I Do Matter?

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Men, Color, Tasks

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• firestar: jayfeather what does mallow look like? jayfeather: i dont know, ive never seen any

  Erin Hunter

  Looks, Knows

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• Love, I have discovered, does not judge. It just is.

  Mary Balogh

  Judging

  Mary Balogh (2007). “Simply Magic”, p.314, Delacorte Press

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• I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win.

  Mary Balogh

  Sweet, Believe, Fighting

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• Fame is a fickle friend, Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fickle, Remember, Fame

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.", Chapter 7

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Thinking, Wind, Brain

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• I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it's not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself?

  Malorie Blackman

  Comfort, Noughts And Crosses, Peculiar

  Malorie Blackman (2007). “Black & White”, p.367, Simon and Schuster

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• Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.

  Jimmy Carter

  Identity, Malaise, No Confidence

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• ‎"Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?" "No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of." "Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Thinking, World, May

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• Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much less care; but try to obtain what you need, and make the best of every moment of your life.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Being Thankful, Trying, Needs

  "The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan".

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• I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

  Mary Balogh

  Wish, Compromise, Said

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• Love does not last forever, then?" "He asked me the same thing this morning," she said. "No, it does not - not love that has been betrayed. One realizes that one has loved a mirage, someone who never really existed. Not that love dies immediately or soon, even then. But it does die and cannot be revived.

  Mary Balogh

  Morning, Forever, Betrayed

  Mary Balogh (2008). “Simply Perfect”, p.224, Delacorte Press

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• You will not live through this if she does not

  J.R. Ward

  Ifs, Vishous

  J.R. Ward (2011). “Lover Unleashed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.64, Penguin

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• And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. You don't know where it comes from, it's magic! That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!

  Terry Pratchett

  Magic, Captains, Knows

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• Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.

  Donald Miller

  People, Water, Soul

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.152, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Bracelets with white symbols?” Michael made the question casual; in fact, he bent his head and concentrated on tuning his guitar, not that it needed it. Every note sounded perfect as it whispered out of the strings. “Do you remember?” “No.” She felt a pure burst of something that wasn’t quite panic, wasn’t quite excitement. “Does that mean they have Protection?” He hesitated for about a second, just long enough for her to know he was surprised. “You mean condoms?” he asked. “Doesn’t everybody?

  Rachel Caine

  Mean, Guitar, White

  Rachel Caine (2006). “Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires”, p.38, Penguin

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• Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they angry? Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head—even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you'd really like to be.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

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• I cannot believe this is the end. Nor can I believe that death is more than the blindness of those living. And if this is only the consolation of a heart in its necessity, or that easy faith born of despair, it does not matter, since it gives us courage somehow to face the mornings. Which is as much as the heart can ask at times.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Morning, Believe, Heart

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• Vampire porn does not go out of style.

  J.R. Ward

  Style, Vampire

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• Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.

  Markus Zusak

  Men, Long, Waiting

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• It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in the hands of the heroes of liberty resembles that with which the henchmen of tyranny are armed ... The government of the revolution is liberty's despotism against tyranny.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Hero, Government, Hands

  "Political Scientism - Beware the Enlightened Ones" by Robin Koerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2017.

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