Does Quotes

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.

God does arithmetic.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

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

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if documentary itself does as good a job. It has its own problems in trying to get at the reality of the situation.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

Money does not guarantee success.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?

History does not always repeat itself.

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.