Doe Quotes - Page 19

• We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads and highways. With the $13-plus trillion we are estimated to ultimately spend on the bailouts, we could not only have bought and paid off every single sub-prime mortgage in the country (that would only have cost $1.4 trillion), we could have paid off every remaining mortgage of any kind in this country - and still have had enough money left over to buy a new house for every American who does not already have one.

  Matt Taibbi

  Country, House, Energy

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• The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation.

  Josef Pieper

  Mean, Happy Life, Intuition

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• What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

  Brent Weeks

  Book, People, Literature

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• I eye Chuy like a pitcher in baseball does when a guy leads too far off base.

  Simone Elkeles

  Baseball, Eye, Guy

  Simone Elkeles (2010). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.223, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I am a vampire. Blood does not bother me.

  Christopher Pike

  Blood, Vampire, Bother

  Christopher Pike (1995). “Red Dice”, Simon Pulse

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• Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.

  A.J. Cronin

  Believe, Matter, Stills

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• The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Struggle, Sleep, Anxiety

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.65, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If you think your life sucks, it probably does. Do something about it.

  Chris Crutcher

  Thinking, Life Sucks, Ifs

  Chris Crutcher (2010). “Angry Management”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Why should I not hate mine enemies―if I "love" them does that not place me at their mercy?

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Hate, Enemy, Satanic

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• I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.

  Albert Hofmann

  Eye, Light, World

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• Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!

  Henry James

  Dream, Believe, Night

  Henry James (2015). “Roderick Hudson”, p.45, Booklassic

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• What do I mean when I say I love Gale? I don't know. I did kiss him last night, in a moment when my emotions were running so high. But I'm sure he doesn't remember it. Does he? I hope not. If he does, everything will just get more complicated and I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.

  Suzanne Collins

  Running, Mean, Kissing

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.649, Scholastic Inc.

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• I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.

  Jane Austen

  Nice, Book, Mean

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• And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

  Anton Chekhov

  Mean, Men, Dying

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1945). “The plays of Anton Chekov: nine plays including The seagull ... and others”

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• Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?

  Terry Pratchett

  Magic, Lasts

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• Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite.

  Ray Bradbury

  Cute, Different, Sandwiches

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Dandelion Wine”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

  Anne Rice

  Self, Loathing, Shame

  Anne Rice (2000). “Merrick: a novel”, Knopf Canada

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• If money does not make you happy, give it back

  Jules Renard

  Giving, Make You Happy, Ifs

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• And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him.

  Martin Heidegger

  Distance, Men, Possibility

  Martin Heidegger (1969). “The essence of reasons”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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• Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spring, Grief, Heart

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.106, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Lions, Safe

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• Now I see some family resemblance. I was starting to wonder if Jill was adopted, but you two kind of look like each other." "So does our mailman back in North Dakota," said Adrian.

  Richelle Mead

  Two, Looks, North Dakota

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.140, Penguin

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• And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful.

  Mark Helprin

  Beautiful, Language, Speak

  Mark Helprin (2005). “A Soldier of the Great War”, p.423, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How good life is when one does something good and just!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Kindness, Good Life, Life Is

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.2190, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying?

  Vera Nazarian

  Mean, Night, Vampire

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