Does Quotes

A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?

Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

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.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.