Top 100 John Doe Quotes
#1. To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#2. Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.
M.F.K. Fisher
#4. You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him
George Plimpton
#5. What's the Symmetry???
John Doe...
Jane Doe... wtf... wtf...
Deyth Banger
#7. 'John Doe' is typically used in a warrant when the accused is known by an alias or by a physical description.
Bill Dedman
#8. Late in his life, Rene complained of living a life of a celebrity one minute and a "John Doe" the next.
James D. Bradley
#9. I got a funny feeling like something was real wrong ...
Looked at her shoes and her feets was real long!
Then it hit me, Oh please God no,
Don't let this ho turn out to be a John Doe ...
He pulled a fast one on me, yo!
Fatlip
#10. More John Doe than Mike May. He played with this changing
Robert Kurson
#11. Your swoonin' needs work." his accent was back. "so does your alias," I snapped. "Dr.Smith? Seriously? Why not John Doe? And how is it that everybody around here seems to buy you're a doctor? you don't look enough to drink, let alone practice medicine
Erica O'Rourke
#12. It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.
John Steinbeck
#13. I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory.
John Adams
#14. The community does not fight crime well by chasing it; after-the-fact, crime has won and the target of violence is injured or worse. Crime is fought best not by chasing it, but by facing it before it can become a completed act.
Crime is fought best at the scene of the violence.
John Longenecker
#15. The most important thing is how you program and how you choose your records. That really does sort out who is a good DJ and who is just playing records.
John Digweed
#16. The absence of strife does not necessarily indicate the presence of peace.
John Hagee
#17. Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
John Henry Newman
#18. Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.
John Lithgow
#19. We do not smirk at the misery or the merrymaking of immoral culture. We weep. Being pilgrims does not mean being cynical. The salt of the earth does not mock rotting meat. Where it can, it saves and seasons. And where it can't, it weeps.
John Piper
#20. Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God does not want us to be overwhelmed in everlasting destruction, for He has ordained His Son to be the salvation of the world.
John Calvin
#22. No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.
John Piper
#23. Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
John Henry Newman
#24. A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.
John Howard
#25. A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.
John Lancaster Spalding
#26. The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.
John Adams
#27. Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.
John Tillotson
#29. I realize how much [Mark] Twain fabricated things. I like it very much, but it's only half true. And it shows what he was trying to do, which was just entertain. Which he does very successfully, though the humor is almost dated now.
John Gimlette
#31. Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ.
John Of The Cross
#32. To destroy the fetus 'is something worse than murder.' The one who does this 'does not take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born.'
Saint John Chrysostom
#33. Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is believable only because it happens.
John McGahern
#35. The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.
John Fowles
#36. An interesting question: is it easier to motivate a learned individual that never does anything, or educate an ignorant individual that actually produces things?
John Carmack
#37. God does nothing apart from prayer, but he does everything by it.
John Welch
#38. If you take away the Jewish contribution to Christianity, there would be no Christianity. Judaism does not need Christianity to explain its existence; Christianity, however, cannot explain its existence without Judaism.
John Hagee
#39. The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.
John Steinbeck
#42. I think heroism is when somebody really goes above and beyond the call of duty and does something outstanding for either themselves or somebody else.
John Assaraf
#43. Come landlord fill a flowing bowl until it does run over,
Tonight we will all merry be
tomorrow we'll get sober.
John William Fletcher
#44. Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
John Calvin
#45. Man's works do not even come close to the works of the Holy Spirit. If the Holy Spirit does not work, all the efforts of man will come to naught.
John Sung
#46. The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
John Ruskin
#47. How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
John D. Rockefeller
#48. I didn't vote for him, but he's my President, and I hope he does a good job.
John Wayne
#49. The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests.
John Foster Dulles
#50. What a director does ... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an act of creation, like a symphony or a painting or a story. But with different tools.
John Carpenter
#51. Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.
John Stossel
#52. The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
John Donne
#53. Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.
John Dee
#54. Pray how does your asparagus perform?
John Adams
#55. God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us.
John Stott
#56. John Goodman isn't fat. He's in a category beyond fat. What does one call it? Whalelike.
Sam Kinison
#57. Even the worst job has its benefits and so does being a professional literary agent, and - I know I said this at the time but I still believe it - the worst job is the one that you know is wrong for you, but you still do it. You're afraid to quit.
John Hodgman
#58. The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
John Maynard Keynes
#59. Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no one ... .
Pope John Paul II
#60. A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
John Eldredge
#61. The higher mental activities are pretty tough and resilient, but it is a devastating experience if the drive does stop. Some people lose it in their forties and can only stop. In England they are a source of Vice-Chancellors.
John Edensor Littlewood
#62. There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
John Ortberg
#63. A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that "E is dense in E" does not mean the same thing as "E is dense in itself".
John Edensor Littlewood
#64. The more reality we face, the more we realise that unreality is the main programme of the day. The more real we become, the more abuse we take, so it does radicalise us in a way, like being put in a corner. But it would be better if there were more of us.
John Lennon
#65. How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they
John Keats
#66. There's been no top authority saying what marijuana does to you. I really don't know that much about it. I tried it once but it didn't do anything to me.
John Wayne
#67. [A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing "what nobody does," or of not doing "what everybody does," is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.
John Stuart Mill
#68. Difficulties seldom defeat people; lack of faith in themselves usually does it.
John C. Maxwell
#69. Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.
John Perry
#70. Relax, ease back in your seats and let the music take you wherever it does.
John Denver
#71. The person who does only what he must when he is in the mood or when it's convenient isn't going to be successful.
John C. Maxwell
#72. In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.
John Ralston Saul
#73. Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.
John C. Maxwell
#74. Investment success does not require glamour stocks or bull markets.
John Neff
#75. Why does it take two days for a polaroid of John Major to appear?
Barry Cryer
#76. A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms.
John Galt
#77. Obedience does not consist in paying God back and thus turning grace into a trade. Obedience comes from trusting in God for more grace - future grace - and thus magnifying the infinite resources of God's love and power.
John Piper
#78. The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.
John Piper
#79. Losing does not make you a failure; it is when you blame someone for losing when you become a failure
John Wooden
#80. I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.
Roger Waters
#81. It being our duty to mortify ... we must be at work. He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the other ceases living, does but half his work.
John Owen
#82. The DOE and DOD are among the most notorious offenders of our hazardous waste laws.
John Dingell
#83. The winter does what it can for its children.
John Ashbery
#84. A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale.
John Ciardi
#85. Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances.
Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
John Ortberg
#86. True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers.
John Shelby Spong
#87. A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly.
John Steinbeck
#88. Look at your goals. Look at your behavior. Does your behavior match your goals?
Dan John
#89. In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
John Donne
#90. The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.
John Green
#91. Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.
John Medina
#92. Not until it starts to stink does the inevitable happen.
John Ashbery
#93. The world asks, How much does he give? Christ asks why does he give?
John Mott
#94. Where is the boundary between your thoughts and feelings and my thoughts and feelings? Where does it end - the outer layer of epidermis? If you look at the body as energy - not matter - maybe there's a possibility we as human beings are more connected to one another than we realize.
John Astin
#95. Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?
John Updike
#96. Just when you think it can't get no better, then it does.
John Hartford
#97. The intent and not the deed
Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly
Does greatly.
John Brown
#98. How does Satan mislead us? By misquoting Scripture. By leading us astray. By getting us to make excuses instead of repenting.
John Hagee
#99. He who does not work, will not eat
John Smith
#100. Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus.
John Stott
