“The result does not matter: politicians never lose.”
José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor
Source: Interview.
Quotes about doe
A collection of quotes on the topic of doe, doing, use, man.
Quotes about doe
José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor
Source: Klairet Levy, R. Interview to José Baroja. http://letras.mysite.com/jbar050923.html
“Does anybody like dolphins? Don’t go to SeaWorld.”
Harry Styles (1994) English singer, songwriter, and actor
Speaking at One Direction's concert in San Diego (9 July 2015) https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34123070
“Life does not forgive weakness.”
Adolf Hitler book Hitler's Letters and Notes
17 February 1945.
Disputed, The Testament of Adolf Hitler (1945)
Variant: Life does not forgive weakness.
Source: Hitler's Letters and Notes
“Just because you're paranoid, does not mean they're not out to get you.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
Song lyrics, Nevermind (1991)
Variant: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
Source: This quote is generally attributed to Joseph Heller from his novel Catch-22, although it appears to be from the film version only (screenplay by Buck Henry.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AParanoia Territorial Pissings.
James Baldwin book Nobody Knows My Name
"In Search of a Majority: An Address" (Feb 1960); reprinted in Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody_Knows_My_Name (1961)
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer
Source: Clippings from My Notebook
“He who does nothing makes no mistakes; he who makes no mistakes learns nothing.”
Luca Pacioli (1445–1517) Italian father of accounting
“To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness!”
José Rizal book Noli Me Tángere
Source: Noli Me Tángere
“Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.”
Vladimir Putin (1952) President of Russia, former Prime Minister
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor
As quoted in "A Visit to Nikola Tesla" by Dragislav L. Petković in Politika (April 1927); also in Tesla, Master of Lightning (1999) by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, p. 82
“Just because so many things are in conflict does not mean that we ourselves should be divided.”
Sophie Scholl (1921–1943) White Rose member
As quoted in Seeking Peace : Notes and Conversations Along the Way (1998) by Johann Christoph Arnold, p. 155
Context: Just because so many things are in conflict does not mean that we ourselves should be divided. Yet time and time again one hears it said that since we have been put into a conflicting world, we have to adapt to it. Oddly, this completely unchristian idea is most often espoused by so-called Christians, of all people. How can we expect a righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause?
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
Other
Anton LaVey book The Satanic Bible
The Satanic Bible (1969)
“Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.”
B.K.S. Iyengar (1918–2014) Indian yoga teacher and scholar
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 61
“I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.”
Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos.
"Every Day You Play" (Juegas Todos las Días), XIV, p. 35.
Variant: I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
Source: Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) (1924)
“Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
Meryl Streep (1949) American actress
Misattributed to Meryl Streep (and widely disseminated on the Internet as of August/September 2014), this quote is allegedly a translation of a text by the author José Micard Teixeira, the original of which begins (in Portuguese): "Já não tenho paciência para algumas coisas, não porque me tenha tornado arrogante..."
Misattributed
“He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.”
Laozi book Tao Te Ching
Variant: Those who know, do not speak, those who speak, do not know.
Source: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 56
Sophie Scholl (1921–1943) White Rose member
As quoted by Else Gebel, in letter to Robert Scholl (November, 1946). Original German text. http://www.mythoselser.de/texts/scholl-gebel.htm
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
Ulrike Meinhof (1934–1976) German left-wing militant
Published in “Vom Protest zum Widerstand” [“From Protest to Resistance” http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/docpage.cfm?docpage_id=1628&language=english], konkret http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkret, no. 5 (May 1968), p. 5.
Mahavatar Babaji Hindu Yogi
Source: Autobiography of a Yogi (1946), Ch. 34 : Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas
Shigeru Miyamoto (1952) Japanese video game designer and producer
Source: Interview with Shigeru Miyamoto http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/shigeru-miyamoto-interview Eurogamer.net, published on 31 March 2010
“A king does not kill messengers.”
Alexander the Great (-356–-323 BC) King of Macedon
As quoted in the Historia Alexandri Magni of Pseudo-Kallisthenes, 1.37.9-13
Context: Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
"As I Please," Tribune, (31 December 1943)
As I Please (1943–1947)
“If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”
Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things
Source: The God of Small Things
“In a society where you are taught to love everything, what value does that place on love?”
Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor
Variant: When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?
“Strength does not come from winning.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) actor, businessman and politician of Austrian-American heritage
From a 1982 interview with Boston Globe journalist Marian Christy. Christy, Marian. "Winning according to Schwarzenegger." https://secure.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/294151457.html Boston Globe: Boston, MA. 9 May 1982: p 51. Accessed 25 Jun 2016. <br class="br">1980s <br class="br">Context: Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. When you make an impasse passable, that is strength. But you must have ego, the kind of ego which makes you think of yourself in terms of superlatives. You must want to be the greatest. We are all starved for compliments. So we do things that get positive feedback.
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Source: On the Foreign Policy of the Soviet State
“We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.”
C.G. Jung book Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Variant: We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.”
Christopher Morley (1890–1957) American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
Thomas Sankara (1949–1987) President of Upper Volta
Source: Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
"Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool," Polemic (March 1947) - Full text online http://orwell.ru/library/essays/lear/english/e_ltf]
Ja'far al-Sadiq (702–765) Muslim religious person
Muhammad Kulayni, Usūl al-Kāfī - The Book of Intellect and Ignorance.
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, General
Sultana's Dream (1905)
Timothy McVeigh (1968–2001) American army soldier, security guard, terrorist
1990s, Letter to the Union-Sun & Journal (1992)
Valentinian (1610–14; published 1647), Act IV, scene 4.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)
Context: There is a great difference between one idler and another idler. There is someone who is an idler out of laziness and lack of character, owing to the baseness of his nature. If you like, you may take me for one of those. Then there is the other kind of idler, the idler despite himself, who is inwardly consumed by a great longing for action who does nothing because his hands are tied, because he is, so to speak, imprisoned somewhere, because he lacks what he needs to be productive, because disastrous circumstances have brought him forcibly to this end. Such a one does not always know what he can do, but he nevertheless instinctively feels, I am good for something! My existence is not without reason! I know that I could be a quite a different person! How can I be of use, how can I be of service? There is something inside me, but what can it be? He is quite another idler. If you like you may take me for one of those.
"A Grammarian's Funeral", line 115.
Men and Women (1855)
Context: That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it.
This high man, with a great thing to pursue,
Dies ere he knows it.
That low man goes on adding one to one,—
His hundred's soon hit;
This high man, aiming at a million,
Misses an unit.
That has the world here—should he need the next,
Let the world mind him!
This throws himself on God, and unperplexed
Seeking shall find him.
“A man who prays lives out the mystery of existence, and a man who does not pray scarcely exists.”
Charbel Makhlouf (1828–1898) Lebanese Maronite monk and saint
Love is a Radiant Light: The Life & Words of Saint Charbel (2019)
John Chrysostom (349–407) important Early Church Father
St. John Chrysostom, Homily 24 on the Epistle to the Romans [PG 60:626-27] https://www.patheos.com/blogs/davearmstrong/2017/10/contraception-early-church-teaching-william-klimon.html
Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Variant: One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ was his response. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet
Source: I Sonetti Di Michelangelo: The 78 Sonnets of Michelangelo with Verse Translation
Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist
Source: Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer
A New Earth (2005)
Variant: Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) playwright from the United States
As quoted in Finding Your Bipolar Muse : How to Master Depressive Droughts and Manic Depression (2006) by Lana R. Castle, p. 258
“What does your conscience say? — "You shall become the person you are."”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Was sagt dein Gewissen? <br class="br">'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.' <br class="br">Variant translation: Become who you are. <br class="br">It is noted here http://www.anonymityone.com/Faq97.htm, here http://www.google.it/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=%22Become%20who%20you%20are%22+Pindar+Nietzsche&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=bks and here http://www.google.it/search?num=100&hl=it&safe=off&biw=1440&bih=690&q=%22%28become+what+you+are%29+after+the+ancient+Greek+poet+Pindar.+See+Ecce+Homo+%28Nietzsche%29%22 that the phrase was first used by Pindar, and was merely re-used by Nietzsche. <br class="br">Sec. 270 <br class="br">The Gay Science (1882)
“Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”
Les Brown (1945) American politician
Variant: Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
“He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.”
José Rizal (1861–1896) Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist
“A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.”
Isabel Allende book Inés of My Soul
Source: Inés of My Soul
“The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.”
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
“The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
Widely attributed to Luther, but actually is an example given in 1658 book Ἑρμηνεια logica https://books.google.com/books?id=2MxlAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA228| of faulty logic. In Latin: <br class="br">Si vero termini in sorite sunt causae subordinatae per accidens, sorites non valet; ut ia hoc, Qui bene bibit, bene dormit; qui bene dormit, non peccat; qui non peccat, est beatus; ergo: qui bene bibit est beatus. Vitium est, quod bene bibere sit causa per accidens somni. <br class="br">Translated via Fauxtations https://fauxtations.wordpress.com/2016/08/21/drinking-and-not-sinning/: <br class="br">If, however, the conclusions in the sorite are subordinate by accident, the sorites is not valid; as in this one, He who sleeps well, drinks well; he who sleeps well, does not sin; he who does not sin, is blessed; therefore, he who drinks well is blessed. The problem is that to drink well is a cause of sleep only by accident. <br class="br">Disputed
“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
John Steinbeck book The Short Reign of Pippin IV
The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957), p. 102