Quotes about doe
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“A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.”

Earl Nightingale (1921–1989) American motivational speaker

Source: Lead the Field

“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Source: What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

Thinking

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants

Source: Water for Elephants

Secret

“Tell me, is he always really rude, or does he save that for mundanes?"
"Oh, he's rude to everyone," said Isabelle airily. "It's what makes him so damn sexy. That and he's killed more demons than anyone else his age.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Age

“Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.”

Karen White (1964) American writer

Source: The Time Between

Life, Beauty, Singing, Heart

“I hate time. It never does what you want it to.”

Nick Hornby book Slam

Source: Slam

Hate, Time

“What TV is extremely good at—and realize that this is "all it does"—is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

People, Thinking

“I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break."

It does the trick. He laughs. "Whose cat?"

"My cat. What do you think? That I break out the cats of strangers?"

"Let me guess, she was framed. She's innocent.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

Spring, Cats, Thinking, Animals

“You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)
Context: You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else. You might think you could run away and change your name and I dont know what all. Start over. And then one mornin you wake up and look at the ceilin and guess who's layin there?

Life, Thinking

“You seem a lot like me," he said. "You don't gawk at me like I'm a freak."

"I'll kick anyone who does."

"I think you already did. Or at least smacked him with a tennis racket."

-Alexander and Raven, Vampire Kisses, Pg.127, The Beginning”

Ellen Schreiber book Vampire Kisses

Source: Vampire Kisses

Kiss, Thinking

“… at the time, King Herbert felt that to remain safe, the kingdom needed an effective intelligence force."

"An intelligent force?" said Will.

"Not intelligent. Intelligence. Although it does help if your intelligence force was also intelligent.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Ruins of Gorlan

Intelligence, Time, Help

“And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”

George Berkeley (1685–1753) Anglo-Irish philosopher

Tree

“And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

Source: Some Mistakes of Moses (1879) http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/ingermm2.htm#XVIII] Section XVIII, "Dampness".

God, Children

“You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist.”

John Connolly book The Gates

Source: The Gates

“Does that mean you agree?"
He groaned. "I think it means you crushed my spirit and beat me down."
"Fantastic.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Thinking

“How does Galdoila know about the reward?" i asked.
"He reads the signs," Grover said. "Duh."
"Of course," I said. "Silly me.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Reading

“But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Love, Truth, Time

“He can occasionally see to an enemy," she conceded. "If he manages to get his sword pointed in the right direction and the enemy does him the favor of falling upon it in precisely the right way.”

Lynn Kurland (2000) American writer

Source: Star of the Morning

Way

“Who’s that?
That’s the King.
Who’s he?
The Duke.
Who’s she?
The Princess.
What do they call you?
The Count.
What does that make me?
Umm…how about the Peasant?
And the name stuck.”

Jordan Sonnenblick (1969) American writer

Source: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

Princess

“We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Peace

“Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

Source: Thomas Paine From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'

“One does what one is; one becomes what one does.”

Robert Musil (1880–1942) Austrian writer

“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Truth

“I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And that is why we find ourselves emptied of meaning with our pantries still full.”

Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher

Source: Can Man Live Without God

Pain, Pleasure

“As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

Fear, Thinking

“Question: When you’re one of the few people who can do something to fix a problem, just how responsible does that make you for it? Answer: It’s how you choose to answer that question that defines you.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

People, Question, Problem

“I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.”

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

Variant: I think that if we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Love, Life, Courage, Thinking

“There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear… revenge.”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Love, Fear, Faith, Revenge

“Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.”

Bell Hooks book All About Love: New Visions

Source: All About Love: New Visions

Life, Thinking, Suffering

“The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.”

Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French sociologist and philosopher

Source: Fragments: Cool Memories III, 1990-1995

Truth, Secret

“God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

God, Future

“We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical.”

Carl Sagan book Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

Life, World, Tree, Heart

“She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'"
"He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.”

Hilary Mantel Bring Up the Bodies

Source: Bring Up the Bodies

Stupidity, Thinking

“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”

George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman

Source: Man and Superman

Funny

“Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?”
“I notice when you're not. Does that count?”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

People, Thinking

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

Spike Milligan (1918–2002) British-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor

Variant: Money can't buy you friends, but you do get a better class of enemy.

Money, Happiness

“You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.”

Melody Beattie (1948) American writer

Source: The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take

Sun, Heart

“We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.”

Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

Thinking, Personality

“In the economy of Heaven, God does not send thunder if a still, small voice is enough, or a prophet if a priest can do the job.”

Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader

God

“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Love, Disappointment, Reality

“If it works, it works,' Kat told him.
'And if it doesn't?' he asked.
She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe.'
'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison.
And with that, it was decided.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

“Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

Love, Fools, Thinking

“The universe explodes, hell freezes, and Shane does something resonable.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Kiss of Death

Hell, Universe

“Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.”

Patrick Lencioni (1965) American writer

Source: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

“Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you.

But no one does.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

Feeling

“All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.”

Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) English historian and Member of Parliament

“A computer does not smell… if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better… And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Books

“But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?”

Dan Brown book Angels & Demons

Source: Angels & Demons

“No, this trick won't work. The same trick does not work twice. How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

A comment to T. H. Morgan, as recalled by Henry Borsook. Einstein was visiting Cal Tech where Morgan and Borsook worked, and Morgan explained to Einstein that he was trying to bring physics and chemistry to bear on the problems of biology, to which Einstein gave this response. Borsook's recollection was published in Symposium on Structure of Enzymes and Proteins (1956), p. 284 http://books.google.com/books?id=H4QjXb4gnEIC&q=%22so+important+a+biological%22#search_anchor, as part of a piece titled "Informal remarks 'by way of a summary'". Context for this story is also given in The Molecular Vision of Life by Lily E. Kay (1993), p. 95 http://books.google.com/books?id=vEHeNI2a8OEC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA95#v=onepage&q&f=false <br class="br">Attributed in posthumous publications

Love

“Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable.”

George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion

Source: Pygmalion

“There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.”

Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990) British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer

Love, Pain

“Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Source: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Time, Clothes

“The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. Unless he understands this, he does not grasp the essential meaning of his life.”

Huey P. Newton book Revolutionary Suicide

Source: Revolutionary Suicide (1973), p. 3

Life, Understanding, Learning

“One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring.”

Aldo Leopold book A Sand County Almanac

“March: The Geese Return”, p. 18.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "January Thaw", "February: Good Oak" & "March: The Geese Return"

Spring, Summer

“What business does memory have with time?”

Jess Walter book Beautiful Ruins

Source: Beautiful Ruins

Business, Memory, Time

“To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard”

Francis Fukuyama (1952) American political scientist, political economist, and author

Feeling

“Once you've started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are?”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

Cheating

“Three things know a secret-
First; the lady in a dream,
The dog that barks no warning,
And a maid that does not scream.”

Mercedes Lackey book By the Sword

Source: By the Sword

Secret, Dogs, Dreams

“There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.”

Molly Ivins (1944–2007) American journalist

People, Freedom

“Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Winter, 1931-1932
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Life, Search

“Did you really JUST fall, Jeffrey?
Why does everybody in my family talk in these dramatic CAPITAL LETTERS all the time? Why am I the only calm one?”

Jordan Sonnenblick (1969) American writer

Source: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

Family, Time

“Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.”

Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher

Section 50
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)

Travel

“Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, ‘Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea, It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.”

Mark Batterson (1969) American pastor and writer

Source: Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge

Game, Idea, Personality

“I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Lunatic Cafe

Source: The Lunatic Cafe

Love

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Feeling, Cats

“Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth’s many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

Source: Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989), Ch. 6; Gratia Dei sum quod sum translates to ”Thanks be to God that I am what I am”

“I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty. Weight dropping off. Ninety-nine… ninety-five… ninety-two… ninety. Just one more to eighty-nine. Where does it go? Where in the universe does it go?”

Francesca Lia Block book Echo

Source: Echo

Food, Universe

“Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?”

Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White

Source: The Woman in White

Love, Books, Heart

“Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.”

Václav Havel book Disturbing the Peace

Source: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 2 : Writing for the Stage

“One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms.”

Dan Brown book Angels & Demons

Source: Angels & Demons

“If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?”

Lois McMaster Bujold book Diplomatic Immunity

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Diplomatic Immunity (2002)

Truth

“You're crazy, you know that?"
"Yes. But I'm a demon in the sack."
I laughed. "Okay then. That fixes everything."
"That's right, it does.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

“The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark. It is said that even the gods must die." He winks. "But not without one hell of a fight.””

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine (2009), p. 365

God, Hell, Light, Fight

“History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles.”

Alison Goodman (1966) Australian science-fiction writer

Source: Eona: The Last Dragoneye

History, Suffering

“The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives”

Alfred De Vigny book Stello

Source: Stello

World, Girl

“Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.”

Scott Snyder (1976) American writer

Source: American Vampire, Vol. 1

Lovers, Night

“Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.”

Les Brown (1945) American politician

Perfection

“… Hardly. A ragged apron does not a waiter make.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: Artemis Fowl Boxed Set, Bks 1-5

“Why does she have wings?'
So she can fly.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Flying

“Keep in mind, just because you don’t know the answer doesn’t mean that one does not exist. You simply haven’t discovered it yet.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

“Are we… does that mean… are we?”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: The Ruby Circle

“They think they're better than everyone else."
"No," said Jace. "I think I'm better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence."
Kyle looked at Simon. "Does he always talk like this?"
"Yes.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Thinking

“Does fuzzy logic tickle?”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!”

Cecily von Ziegesar Gossip Girl

Source: Gossip Girl

“I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

World

“The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.”

Thomas Merton book The Seven Storey Mountain

Source: The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)
Context: Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers the most: and his suffering comes to him from things so little and so trivial that one can say that it is no longer objective at all. It is his own existence, his own being, that is at once the subject and the source of his pain, and his very existence and consciousness is his greatest torture.

Fear, Suffering, Hurt

“Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

“Is it a wart?" said Malcolm. "I can cure that, but it'll cost you."

"Why does everyone always think it's a wart?”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Thinking

“When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.”

Frank Herbert book The Godmakers

Source: The Godmakers (1972)

Wisdom, Fools, Understanding, Question

“Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

Love, Faith

“Now I see some family resemblance. I was starting to wonder if Jill was adopted, but you two kind of look like each other."
"So does our mailman back in North Dakota," said Adrian.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

Family

“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Learning, Perfection

“Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”

William Faulkner book The Sound and the Fury

Variant: Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Source: The Sound and the Fury (1929)

Life, Time, Dead

“God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs.”

Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

God

“The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do.”

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor

Address to the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Boston, Massachusetts (30 July 1903), printed in "Account of the Boston Riot," Boston Globe (31 July 1903) http://web.archive.org/20071031084056/www.historycooperative.org/btw/Vol.7/html/235.html

World

“Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing," said the Dog
"What does that mean?"
"I have no idea," said the Dog”

Garth Nix book Abhorsen

Source: Lirael

Dogs, Idea

“What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.”

Bret Easton Ellis The Rules of Attraction

Source: The Rules of Attraction

“She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Variant: She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to be herself.
Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

Confidence

“How does it taste?” Carter wondered.
Zia smiled. “Stick out your tongue.”
To answer Carter’s question, the tattoo tasted like burning car tires.
“Ugh.” I spit a blue gob of “order and harmony” into the fountain.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Smile, Cars, Question, Tattoo

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