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Doe Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on…
- Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
- Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
- Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.
- Fear has a smell, as love does.
- A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if…
- The cemetery has ... an inscription: 'Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will Fear No Evil, For Thou Art…
- Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start…
- Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the…
- I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and comparison, the public…
- 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…
- A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.
- He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box…
- Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall,…
- Soon it will be daybreak. Soon the day will break. I can't stop it from breaking in the same way it always does, and then…
- Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I…
More Doe Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi