Does Quotes

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?

I hate these reality TV shows where people walk off Big Brother and think they're A-list celebrities when they've done nothing in their lives, it really does my head in.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

No, our greatness does not come from our government.

Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Does not science prove that there is no Creator?

I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

It does just boil down to music.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.