Top 285 Does Quotes

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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Abraham Cowley
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

I haven‘t been baptised. My dad‘s not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual – she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I’m proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I’m still looking for my god.

A zebra does not change its spots.

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.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?

If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.

Charles Edward Montague
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

A friend once asked me what comedy was. That floored me. What is comedy? I don’t know. Does anybody? Can you define it? All I know is that I learned how to get laughs, and that’s all I know about it. You have to learn what people will laugh at, then proceed accordingly.

Stan Laurel
Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

I have a complicated relationship with the zoo; maybe everyone does. It’s so wonderful and so sad.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.

Antoni Gaudi
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

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

A year or so ago I went through all the people in my life and asked myself: does this person inspire me, genuinely love me and support me unconditionally? I wanted nothing but positive influences in my life.

Mena Suvari
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal
We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining – they just shine.

Dwight L Moody
What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one’s own culture.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

Helen Gurley Brown
Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people’s failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.

In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all.

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

Hippocrates
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

Mark Caine
I don’t care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.

Boss Tweed
If a man does his best, what else is there?

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slightlest we become unwitting victims of darkness.

William O Douglas
It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.

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.

Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts.

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.

And I don’t think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there’s another set of moral codes, but I don’t think government has a role.

How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.

Fred Brooks
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

The truth does not need to be defended.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

There’s enough money for everybody. See, I can’t do what Yachty does. But then again, Yachty can’t do what I do.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world‘s joy.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

Richard Rorty
A person who sees a problem is a human being; a person who finds a solution is visionary; and the person who goes out and does something about it is an entrepreneur.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there’s something good about feeling both.

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

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Karl Popper
To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.

Pablo Neruda
I credit my success to my mother. Her prayers and support are everything to me. I know all she does for me, and I know nothing I do can ever pay back the amount of support she has given me.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

The world is a complicated place, and there’s a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.

Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Henry Van Dyke
A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.

George III of the United Kingdom
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.

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.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Flannery O’Connor
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.

I think our society has sort of built this gender binary, and the way we’ve said it exists does not really exist in nature.

Where in the Bible does it say I have to drive a Honda?

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%.

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She’s an actress, she just never gets called to the set.

What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I’m going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, ‘It ain’t bad, but it ain’t San Francisco.’

Herb Caen
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

Florence Griffith Joyner
You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay. But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin
There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

The king reigns but does not govern.

Louis Adolphe Thiers
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

Torquato Tasso
When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.

Ivan Turgenev
There’s a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

Dean Martin
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Some days I’m up, some days I’m down. But I think one thing that does get you moving is hope.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Theodore Isaac Rubin
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Corrie Ten Boom
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.

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

We may not know what each day has in store for us. We could be gone tomorrow. Any minute could truly be our goodbye. But we do have this moment. This time. Today. Right now. It takes way more effort to shell out hate then it does to allow love to flow freely in our lives. After all, it’s what we were born to do.

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

Charles Dudley Warner
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one’s wishes.

Nikita Khrushchev
Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

Tony Wilson
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles you, and it takes away your confidence, and nobody deserves that.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity‘s sun rise.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Money does not change people, people change.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

It is said that love makes the world go ’round – the announcement lacks verification. It’s wind from the dinner horn that does it.

O Henry
There is no love which does not become help.

Paul Tillich
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s-heart.

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?’

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Sin does not stop God’s grace from flowing, but God’s grace will stop sin.

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world’s beauty, is everything!

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.

Patty Berg
Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.

Benjamin E Mays
Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

Someone may ask, ‘How is justice greater than all the other virtues?’ The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.

St Jerome
Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

Success doesn’t motivate me as much as integrity does. Everyone loses. I enjoy the pressure of showing up every single day, being focused, putting forth my best effort, getting the best out of my teammates, and enjoying the journey.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

Believe in yourself when nobody else does.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence.

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We’re all limited by our perspective.

Why should men be constrained by antiquated stereotypes of masculinity? What does it even mean to ‘Be a Real Mananymore? Shouldn’t we all be celebrating a wide range of definitions of manhood?

What does it say about a country that has to force its women into combat?

I work hard, like I’m sure everyone else does, and I’m very honest with the work I do.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

James Anthony Froude
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

My game is based on improvisation. Often, a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.

The object of rewards is to encourage; that of punishments, to prevent. If rewards are high, then what the ruler wants will be quickly effected; if punishments are heavy, what he does not want will be swiftly prevented.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Play is the answer to the question, ‘How does anything new come about?’

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm’s way.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.

P D James
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Alexandre Dumas
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

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

A E Housman
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good – he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad – he and the world is destroyed.

I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.

Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Sam Levenson
I always say that I was born in the wrong era. I should’ve been born in the ’70s or ’80s when love meant so much more than it does today. In this busy world, we forget to find each other, fall in love, and go all the way for our soul mates.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

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

Acceptance of one’s life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

Paul Tournier
The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, to dialogue and, in the final analysis, to possibly accept the other’s culture without compromising its own.

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Ferdinand Porsche
You win battles by knowing the enemy’s timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

Miyamoto Musashi
God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.

Neal A Maxwell
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God’s ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

John Archibald Wheeler
There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Jean Racine
God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

Sean O’Casey
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.

Max Planck
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth – don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.

Safety is an illusion, and trying to protect ourselves does nothing more than protect us from experiencing a full, evolved, and juicy life.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

I do believe in the old saying, ‘What does not kill you makes you stronger.’ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Amelia Earhart
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.

Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do… but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch
Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn’t help us know what to say.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

Time is a finite resource that you can’t get back. I have the same 24 hours you have, and you get the same 24 hours as me. As you rise, so does you chance for opportunity.

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.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Romain Rolland
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan‘s egg.

Hans Christian Andersen
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

In science, ‘fact’ can only mean ‘confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.’ I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corruptsperhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.

Duke of Wellington
As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God’s design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one’s coffee and fill one’s pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

Knut Hamsun
Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms.

You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he’s somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.

I like my shame straight up and honest, and nobody does it better than In-N-Out Burger. You go to In-N-Out Burger, and they ask you the most shameful question in fast food. ‘I’ll have a burger, fries and a Coke.’ ‘Will you be eating in the car?’ ‘Yeah. I think so.’

Our self-respect does not have a price tag.

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

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

Claude Bernard
To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks for an empire that does not exist anymore.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.