Does Quotes

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.

Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

The resistance does not mean that everyone can carry a weapon. The weapon is only for the people of the weapons.

I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.

Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?