Does Quotes

How does one measure the success of a museum?

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

No one does anything from a single motive.

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?

I hate these reality TV shows where people walk off Big Brother and think they're A-list celebrities when they've done nothing in their lives, it really does my head in.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

No, our greatness does not come from our government.

Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Does not science prove that there is no Creator?

I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.