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“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

“Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering.
Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them.
Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death.”

Steven Erikson book The Bonehunters

Source: The Bonehunters

Life, Death, God, Peace

“When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.”

Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian

God

“Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.”

Robert J. Sawyer book Flashforward

Source: Flashforward

Nature

“He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.”

Lev Grossman The Magician King

Source: The Magician King

“He will let you down, because that's what he does. That's who he is.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

“It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.”

Milan Kundera book Encounter

Source: Encounter

Truth, Understanding

“Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)

Heart

“It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.”

Cormac McCarthy The Sunset Limited

Source: The Sunset Limited

World, Education, Personality

“Never seek to tell thy love
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly.

I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart;
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears—
Ah, she doth depart.

Soon as she was gone from me
A traveler came by
Silently, invisibly—
Oh, was no deny.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Never Seek to Tell
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)

Love, Fear, Travel, Heart

“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to bein all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.”

James Baldwin book The Fire Next Time

Source: The Fire Next Time

Love, Life, Thinking, Effort

“What one person does, several people usually consider.”

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (1984) Novelist

People, Personality

“You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.”

Michael Shermer (1954) American science writer

Source: Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design

“What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Faith, Dogs, Question

“Or perhaps this hostility of yours is the pretense. Love does make liars out of your kind.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Love, Hostility

“Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions.”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

Happiness, Heart, Flying

“There’s a lesson in real-life stalking cases that young women can benefit from learning: persistence only proves persistence—it does not prove love. The fact that a romantic pursuer is relentless doesn’t mean you are special—it means he is troubled.”

Gavin de Becker (1954) American engineer

Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

Love, Life, Women, Learning

“They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Incubus Dreams

Source: Incubus Dreams

Light, Evil

“Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

Education, Sport, Football

“Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

Books, Flowers, Bee

“Step up to red alert."
Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb."
- Rimmer & Kryten, "Red Dwarf”

Rob Grant (1950) British writer

Change

“We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it—that makes no sense. What mycould never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

Happiness, People, Understanding, Sense

“I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.”

Kerry Greenwood (1954) Australian crime writer

Source: Queen of the Flowers

“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Variant: I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.
Source: On the Road

Star, Night

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

Ralph Nader (1934) American consumer rights activist and corporate critic

Sun

“The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them?
Because we were out of raspberries.
Because, can't they see, it just does not matter. Time was not of the essence.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

Time

“My job does not define me.”

Meg Wolitzer book The Interestings

The Interestings

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

God

“Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.”

Woody Allen Without Feathers

"Selections from the Allen Notebooks".
Source: Without Feathers (1975)

Food

“The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

World

“I could have. What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Variant: At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn't. The magic moments
go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Change

“Getting help for substance abuse can be reduced to the deceptively simple focus of ‘keeping away from the dope.’ But what does getting help with depression mean? Learning to keep away from your own mind?”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

Learning, Help

“When you've never gotten love from someone, you don't know what it might look like if it ever does appear. You look for it in everything: any bright light overhead could be a star.”

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

Love, Star, Light, Appearance

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

Nikos Kazantzakis book Report to Greco

Report to Greco (1965)

Beauty, Forgiveness

“Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Variant: It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
Source: Mockingjay

Time

“My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

Truth, Beauty, Sincerity

“Dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals of working together and getting along. Of course, this America does exist. It's called Canada.”

Sarah Vowell The Wordy Shipmates

Source: The Wordy Shipmates

Reading

“It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

Birth, Business

“I know," she said, guessing my thoughts. "I know exactly how you feel."
"Does it get easier?" I asked. Unlike Sydney, Olena had an answer.
"Yes. But you'll never be the same.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Feeling

“When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.”

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918) French poet

“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Women's dieting has become what Yale psychologist Judith Rodin calls a 'normative obsession,' a never-ending passion play given international coverage out of all proportion to the health risks associated with obesity, and using emotive language that does not figure even in discussions of alcohol or tobacco abuse. […] Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”

Naomi Wolf book The Beauty Myth

Source: The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 6 : 'Hunger', p. 187

Women, Health, Alcohol, Beauty

“What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over”

Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) English humorist

“Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.”

Anthony Rapp book Without You

Source: Without You

Change

“Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Books

“It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

Intelligence, Understanding, Light

“Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

Love, Disease, Boy

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

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist

Men, Children, Stupidity, Education

“Hassan returned the smile. Except his didn’t look forced. And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

People, Smile, Thinking

“I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.”

Jasper Fforde book Lost in a Good Book

Source: Lost in a Good Book

Sense, Fight

“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.”

Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist

Source: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Housing

“It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

World, Learning, Help

“A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

George Bernard Shaw, quoted by Hesketh Pearson, George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality, 1942
1940s and later

“So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn’t apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard time believing it”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Life, Thinking, Time, Reading

“Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Feeling, Strong, Winter, Sun

“The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.”

Sam Harris Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

Thinking

“As much as we have free choice, absolute destiny is immutable. What is meant to happen does, through one measure or another.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Enshrined

“… the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book
is one of the main reasons I read;
but it doesn't happen every time
or even every other time,
and when it does happen,
I am truly beside myself.”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

Books, Time, Reading

“It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.”

Elmore Leonard book Freaky Deaky

Source: Freaky Deaky

Sense

“Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty…”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

Beauty

“Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Faith, Universe

“Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god - from Ra to Shiva - in which he does not believe. All that the serious and objective atheist does is to take the next step and to say that there is just one more god to disbelieve in.”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

God

“Knowing serves no real purpose, but then, neither does not knowing. Myself, I always prefer knowing to not.”

Robert Jordan The Great Hunt

Source: The Great Hunt

“There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

World

“I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Source: Entweder / Oder

Love, Confidence, Silence, Night

“The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future.”

Yukio Mishima book The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Source: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Spring, Strong, Memory, Past

“Hey, ah, does anyone want a cookie or something? Oh yeah. A cookie. That would make everything better. Dunked in a shot of tequila, maybe? Or better yet, just the bottle? Yeah, that ought to do it.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Every Which Way But Dead

“Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.”

Aldo Leopold book A Sand County Almanac

"The Ecological Conscience" [1947]; Published in The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold, Susan L. Flader and J. Baird Callicott (eds.) 1991, p. 346.
1940s
Source: A Sand County Almanac
Context: The direction is clear, and the first step is to throw your weight around on matters of right and wrong in land-use. Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays. That philosophy is dead in human relations, and its funeral in land-relations is overdue.

“So in sum, what are we? We are the creatures that know and know too much. That leaves us with such a burden again we have a choice, to laugh or cry. No other animal does either. We do, depending on the season and the need.”

Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Animals, Dependency, Cry, Season

“The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife.”

Mario Vargas Llosa book The War of the End of the World

Source: The War of the End of the World

Death

“I do want your happiness. But the absence of fighting or hatred or desire also means the opposites do not exist either. No joy, no communion, no love. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter 32, Shadow in the Throes of Death
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Context: First, about the mind. You tell me there is no fighting or hatred or desire in the Town. That this is a beautiful dream, and I do want your happiness. But the absence of fighting or hatred or desire also means the opposites do not exist either. No joy, no communion, no love. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

Love, Happiness, Hope, Loss

“One does not cross-examine a saint.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Les Misérables

“What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet?

Love isn't the only word that fails.

Hate does, too.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Love, Hate

“Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken?”

Jennifer Weiner book Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed

“Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 10, Counting Sheep

Question

“He does not see as i have that you have given him your heart, but he is male. We will cut him some slack for that handicap, yes?”

Katie MacAlister (1964) Author

Heart

“…… what I was born does not matter, only what I will make of myself, only what I will become.”

Diana Gabaldon book The Fiery Cross

Source: The Fiery Cross

“I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody.”

Naomi Novik book Throne of Jade

Source: Throne of Jade

“Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Joy

“Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.”

Jacques Barzun (1907–2012) Historian

“Being told that love is forbidden does not kill love. It strengthens it.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Love

“Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.”

Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) Polish writer

Life, Literature

“After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.”

Evelyn Waugh book Vile Bodies

Source: Vile Bodies

Love, Personality

“Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

On Beauty

“The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.”

Nuala O'Faolain (1940–2008) Irish writer

Source: My Dream of You

Dreams, Waiting

“No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.”

Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968) American journalist

Give Me Liberty (1936)
Context: The picture of the economic revolution as the final step to freedom was false as soon as I asked myself that question. For, in actual fact, The State, The Government, cannot exist. They are abstract concepts, useful enough in their place, as the theory of minus numbers is useful in mathematics. In actual living experience, however, it is impossible to subtract anything from nothing; when a purse is empty, it is empty, it cannot contain a minus ten dollars. On this same plane of actuality, no State, no Government, exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

Men

“What thief does not fight to hold what he has?"

"One that has something better," said Locke.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora

Fight

“Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.”

Charles Baudelaire book Les Fleurs du mal

Source: Les Fleurs du Mal

Love, Hate, Passion

“Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

Parent, Baby

“I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

Time, Cry

“Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Love, Life, Beauty, Personality

“Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who were born without a conscience?

V: I beg your pardon?”

Jessica Bird book Lover Unbound

Source: Lover Unbound

Question

“It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Love, Making love, Time, Cry

“I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.”

Dashiell Hammett book The Maltese Falcon

Chap. 11, "The Fat Man"
Dialogue between the characters Kasper Gutman (the "fat man") and Sam Spade.
Source: The Maltese Falcon (1930)
Context: "We begin well, sir," the fat man purred … "I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does. … Well, sir, here's to plain speaking and clear understanding. … You're a close-mouthed man?"
Spade shook his head. "I like to talk."
"Better and better!" the fat man exclaimed. "I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking's something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice."

Drink

“A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people’s evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.”

Natsuo Kirino book Grotesque

Source: Grotesque

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