Doe Quotes - Page 5

• When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  People, Watches, Television

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• The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Song, Broken, Singers

  Rabindranath Tagore (1986). “Selected poems”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished

  Djuna Barnes

  Giving, Silence, Littles

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• I understand the reasons behind his keeping a distance from a girl he cares about. Because the truth is, sometimes getting close to the fire does actually burn you.

  Simone Elkeles

  Girl, Distance, Fire

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it; and the greater power he ascribes to faith, the more he deprives himself of that power which God has given to him when He endowed him with the gift of reason.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Believe, Destiny, Men

  "Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt" by Giacomo Casanova, translated by Arthur Machen, 1894.

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• What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in time, lives out the comedy while awaiting the end, face to face with that God he does not adore, serving him as he served life, kneeling before a void and arms outstretched toward a heaven without eloquence that he knows to be also without depth?

  Albert Camus

  Men, Heaven, Body

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• Magnus stood up and went to the window. He pushed the curtain back, letting in just enough light to silhouette his hawklike profile. "Blood," he said, half to himself. "I had a dream two nights ago. I saw a city all of blood, with towers made of bone, and blood ran in the streets like water." Simon slewed his eyes over to Jace. "Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" "No," said Jace, "sometimes he sits on the couch and does it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dream, Eye, Night

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.555, Simon and Schuster

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• Oooh, that was fun." "That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means." Isabelle pulled the long heavy mass of her wet hair forward and wrung it out as if it were wet washing. "You're raining on my parade." "It's a pretty wet parade already, if you hadn't noticed." Jace glanced around.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fun, Rain, Mean

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m really grateful to you for saving us, Maia, and Jace is too, even though he’s so stubborn that he’d rather jam a seraph blade through his eyeball than say so. And don’t you say you hope he does,” she added hastily, seeing the look on the other girl’s face, “because that’s really not helpful.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Grateful, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.1012, Simon and Schuster

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• The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.

  Albert Camus

  Logic, Classic, Clarity

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• Most of the supposed expressions of our feelings merely relieve us of them by drawing them out of us in an indistinct form that does not teach us to know them.

  Marcel Proust

  Expression, Drawing, Feelings

  Marcel Proust (2003). “Swann's Way”, Viking Press

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• I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.

  Jasper Fforde

  Fighting, Common Sense, Denial

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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• The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Inspire

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.57, Moody Publishers

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• In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.

  Leon Trotsky

  Death, Wisdom, Country

  Leon Trotsky (1937). “The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it Going?”, p.241, Mehring Books

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• But I'll never see any of those fish," said Maxie."Or those whales. Or any lions or tigers. I'm never going to set foot in a rain forest now, am I? I won't even be able to watch old DVD's about them without electricity. What does the future hold? It's like going back to the middle ages. Nobody knowing what was going on beyond their front doorstep. All I'll ever know is this. This little bit of London.

  Charlie Higson

  Rain, Knowing, Dvds

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• Faith in the biblical sense is substantive, based on the knowledge that the One in whom that faith is placed has proven that He is worthy of that trust. In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Bible, God, Faith

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 19, 2015

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• Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising in the tree, putting forth new green shoots of life.

  Caryll Houselander

  I Love You, Falling In Love, People

  Caryll Houselander, Marie Anne Mayeski (1991). “A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader”, p.91, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom; Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.

  James Joyce

  Art, Plato, Spring

  James Joyce (2016). “Ulysses”, p.188, First Avenue Editions

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• Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis. A pinprick in the paper: you could put your eye to it and see through, to the other side, to the beginning of something else. Or, as Tony says to her students, Time is not a solid, like wood, but a fluid, like water or the wind. It doesn't come neatly cut into even-sized length, into decades and centuries. Nevertheless, for our purposes we have to pretend it does. The end of any history is a lie in which we all agree to conspire.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lying, Eye, Writing

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• A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Deception, Promise

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• Does it give you déjà voodoo how alike the houses are?" "That's déjà vu, and I hate you right now

  Rachel Caine

  Hate, Giving, House

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town: The Morganville Vampires”, p.114, Penguin

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• You seem a lot like me," he said. "You don't gawk at me like I'm a freak." "I'll kick anyone who does." "I think you already did. Or at least smacked him with a tennis racket." -Alexander and Raven, Vampire Kisses, Pg.127, The Beginning

  Ellen Schreiber

  Kissing, Thinking, Ravens

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• Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all women have access to education, and all women can earn PhD’s, if they so desire. Privilege does not have to be negative, but we have to share our resources and take direction about how to use our privilege in ways that empower those who lack it.

  Bell Hooks

  What Matters, Empowering, Desire

  bell hooks, Amalia Mesa-Bains (2017). “Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism”, p.74, Routledge

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• A label doesn't make something so. A label is just a word. It's what a person does that makes them who they are

  Heather Brewer

  Labels, Persons

  Heather Brewer (2011). “Twelfth Grade Kills #5: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, Penguin

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• If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

  Charlotte Bronte

  Summer, Spring, Sunshine

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.124, Penguin

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