Quotes about doe

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“Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work- It demands everything from you- especially the truth. Only then does it yield results.”

“Genius does not excuse evil.”

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

“Why does it have to be like this?' I asked bitterly. 'Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all?”

“A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.”

“Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.”

“Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them LESS than us”

“Fate does not seek our consent.”

“All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.”

“Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.”

“And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.”

“The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.”

“Sometimes, I think Bill forgets that I am sixteen. But I am very happy that he does.”

“I don't like killing a girl," the Spaniard said.
"God does it all the time; if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you.”

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”

“It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It’s impossible, and if it isn’t impossible, it’s irrelevant, and if it isn’t either of those things, it’s embarrassing.”

“Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.”

“And I don’t want his body touching something I wear. He’ll contaminate it. (Sasha)
Oh, good grief, Sasha. Grow up. You’re four hundred years old and you’re acting like a whelp. It’s not like he has cooties or anything. (Astrid)
Yes he does! (Sasha)”

“I can stand a lot! But just because I can, does that mean I must? Do I have to bear everyone’s weakness? Can I not have my own?”

“I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.”

“A Prince asked the dying spanish statesman, "Does your Excellency forgive all your enemies?" "I do not have to forgive all my enemies," answered the stateman, "I have had them all shot.”

“Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together…”

“Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.”

“Life doesn't often turn out the way we think it will, does it?”

“Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.”

“A cloak of invisibility? This is a highly sensitive piece of field equipment. What does he think? Some warlock pulled it out of his armpit?”

“The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand”

“There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.”

“For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.”

“The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.”

“Silence does not always mark wisdom.”

“And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come —it always does. so I stared out that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw.”

“It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.”

“You are different. That does not make you less.”

“There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”

“He is an atheist who does not believe in himself.”

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.”

“Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.”

“Yeah, and Mr. Cuddles is a jealous sort. He doesn’t share us well. (Geary)
Does this mean I’ll have to fight him? (Arik)
You’d never win. Mr. Cuddles cheats. You think he’s just a pushover teddy bear, but he’s vicious, I tell you. Vicious. (Geary)”

“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.”

“I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.”

“If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.”

“The reaper does not listen to the harvest.”

“Does it contain iodine?”

“My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.”

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.”

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”

“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”

“Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again!… If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.”

“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”

“The most elementary of good manners… at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics.”

“Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.”

“To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.”

“We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it?”

“This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.”

“They fight a war and they don't know what for. Isn't that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different color uniform and speaks a different language?”

“The sea does not like to be restrained.”

“Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.”

“Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive”

“Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.”

“How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.”

“I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.”

“Oh yeah, Scooby, it does. You and I have gone round many a day. I’m the reason you keep thinking you’ve had alien abductions. (Caleb)”

“for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.”

“… nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).”

“It’s in Latin.”
“So? What does it say?”
“I don’t read Latin!”
“You’re kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn’t that the international language for smart people?”

“But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?”

“I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.”

“Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work”

“I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love… there is joy… there is laughter.”

“Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.”

“Advice for a human

86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.”

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security 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 exposure.”

“Come with me into the woods where spring is
advancing, as it does, no matter what,
not being singular or particular, but one
of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.”

“Try fighting with your head for a change…
it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.”

“I'm William, but you can call me Sexy. Everyone does.”

“Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.”

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

“What does a mirror look at?”

“Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?”

“For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do? It takes so much to hold on to hate—you lose your grip on what's important, you know?”

“Don’t ever make the mistake of telling God that you have nothing to offer. That simply is not true. God does not create any junk.”

“Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.”

“Yes, Jason Grace." Favonius arched an eyebrow. "I fell in love with a. Does that shock you?”

“Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.”

“Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!”

“What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.”

“How wonderful to be alive," he thought. "But why does it always hurt?”

“The past does not equal the future.”

“Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?”

“Diet Coke does not contain nasty chemicals. It contains lovely and delicious carbonation, caffeine, and aspartame. What's unnatural about that?”

“When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder”

“And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?”

“That, dillop brain, is what getting close to the Darke does. It makes you think only of yourself. It takes you away from people you care about. And now you don't have anyone to talk to and it serves you right.”

“Screw reality. It don’t feed my dog. It don’t make my Porsche payments. It don’t get me laid. Bullshit does that…and I like it that way. (Leo)”

“She had perfect features, with her eye, nose, lips, and ears the right size and in right places. That is all it takes to make people beautiful, normal body parts – yet why does nature mess it up so many times?”

“To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.”

“One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.”