Doe Quotes - Page 29

• One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.

  Galen Beckett

  Silly, Purpose, Idiot

  Galen Beckett (2010). “The House on Durrow Street”, p.206, Spectra

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• And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Party, Hands, Political

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.523, Hachette UK

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• You know who does have a funny bone in her body? Your mom every night for a dollar.

  Tina Fey

  Mom, Night, Dollars

  "Tina Fey: 'Ugly, pear-shaped and bitchy? I prefer offbeat, business class-assed and exhausted'" by Tina Fey, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2011.

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• Heritage does not equal destiny.

  Cate Tiernan

  Destiny, Heritage, Equal

  Cate Tiernan (2008). “The Calling: Book Seven”, p.187, Penguin

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• why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?

  Bernhard Schlink

  Beautiful, Dark, Hindsight

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.37, Vintage

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• I was asking about lust, wasnʼt I? I was fairly certain of it. But isnʼt love supposed to come before lust? It does in the dictionary.

  Franny Billingsley

  Lust, Asking, Certain

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• The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.

  John Steinbeck

  Feelings, Action, Sometimes

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.107, Penguin

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• If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.

  Veronica Roth

  Coward, Divergent, Might

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent”, p.52, HarperCollins UK

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• Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.

  Susanna Clarke

  People, Complaining, Magician

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.416, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Easy, Greyhounds, Second Place

  Joe Dunthorne (2011). “Submarine”, p.33, Penguin UK

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• The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

  John Stuart Mill

  Choices, Feelings, Perception

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

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• Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Fate, Heaven, Sitting

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• Consider this: 1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding "entheogenic" drug LSD? And here's a bonus question: 2. Why does an "expanded consciousness" include the inability to operate a motor vehicle?

  Brad Warner

  Motor Vehicles, Car, Drug

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.

  Jane Yolen

  May, Scar, Time Heals

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• The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Problem, Moderation

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. An what's her reward for enduring all that pain? She gets pushed aside when she's disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, hear beauty is gone. Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together.

  Anne Frank

  Children, Pain, War

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from May 10, 2015

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• Alex: Rosie, I wanted you to be the first person to no that I’ve decided to become a heart surgeon! Rosie: Cool, does it pay well? Alex: Rosie, it’s not about the money. Rosie: Where I come from, it’s all about the money. Probably because I don’t have any.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Heart, Alex, Pay

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe in a miracle, a slow miracle would be just as incredible as a swift one. The Greek witch may have turned sailors to swine with a stroke of the wand. But to see a naval gentleman of our acquaintance looking a little more like a pig every day, till he ended with four trotters and a curly tail, would not be any more soothing. It might be rather more creepy and uncanny.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Moving, Men

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• But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired.

  Melanie Benjamin

  Tired, Ungrateful, Sound

  Melanie Benjamin (2010). “Alice I Have Been: A Novel”, p.7, Delacorte Press

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• Sebastian never does anything just for fun.” Jace took Clary’s hand and pulled her toward him. “But I do.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fun, Hands, Jace

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• The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice. Hermione snorted. "Well honestly... 'the fates have informed her'... Who sets the exam? She does!

  J. K. Rowling

  Fate, June, Practice

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• It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it, a country in electoral season experiences flares of lunacy like the great storms that sometimes march across the golden surface of the sun.

  Mark Helprin

  Country, Storm, Speech

  Mark Helprin (2005). “Freddy and Fredericka”, p.313, Penguin

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• One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.

  Ouida

  Coward, Care, Firsts

  "Wanda".

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• 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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