Does Quotes

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

An author departs, he does not die.

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

Any time something does that well, you gotta follow up.

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".

The unspoken word never does harm.

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

You know, what a producer does is one of the great mysteries in life, so anyone can be one.

They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay. I personally don't believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff. Tom does. That's what he wants to do, that's what he's going to do. You do not tell Tom what to do. He is a force to be reckoned with.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

The Republican Party does not reach out.

Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.