Does Quotes

If a man does his best, what else is there?

It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.

Beating the tea party gang is more important than who does the beating.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

Man knows so much and does so little.

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.