Does Quotes

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

Does anyone remember laughter?

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

Everything family does is reflection on the other people.

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.