Does Quotes

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.

Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

My painting does not come from the easel.

Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.