Does Quotes

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.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

I refuse to this day to do e-mail because everybody I know that does it, it takes another two or three hours a day. I don't want to give two or three more hours away.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.

When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.