Does Quotes

Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.

If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

It used to be the case, like you'd switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn't keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

The government never does anything successfully.

As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.