Does Quotes

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.

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

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.

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.

What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"

One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.

Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.

I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.