Does Quotes

You're saying 'will it become politically unpopular to have the position I'm having.' If it does, so be it.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

Look, 85% percent of Democrats think the economy's fine. What does that tell you about these people?

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

He who does not tire, tires adversity.

Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father.

If each one of us does our bit, we will be helping to keep global warming from harming our countries.

One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

I'm a huge news junkie. I love what the news does.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.