Does Quotes

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

I can kind of picture what I want to do and my body just does it. You feel your way through a trick. I close my eyes sometimes.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

No, my son's a songwriter and he does that.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

When Obama gutted Medicare by taking $717 billion out of it, the Romney plan does not do that. The Ryan plan mimicked part of the Obama package there, the Romney plan does not. That's a big difference.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.