Does Quotes

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

Where in the Bible does it say I have to drive a Honda?

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.

He who does not know how to create should not know.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them?

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.