Does Quotes

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.

You commit a felony, it does not matter who you are, you could be deported.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

Nature does nothing in vain.

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?

History does not always repeat itself.

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.

Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.

If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.