Does Quotes

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.

Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

There is no love which does not become help.

Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

Anything my staff does in my office is pursuant to congressional rules.

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

Everyone does things for love.

If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.