Quotes about doe

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“Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.”

“He does not rule us. No one can rule us. No one can rule anyone who does not first agree to the ruling." She smiled a trace at Aeriel and patted the little camp dog, which was whining for more tidbits. "One must rule oneself.”

“With God on your side, what does luck matter?”

“Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.”

“Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.”

“Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.”

“I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even.”

“Donde termina el arco iris,
en tu alma o en el horizonte?

Where does the rainbow end,
in your soul or on the horizon?”

“A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.

But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.

So does gossip.”

“He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken.”

“When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.”

“The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.”

“A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.”

“People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.”

“Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die. April 9, 1916 Sorbonne”

“The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.”

“Complaining of unfairness is like assigning blame, Percy Jackson. It does no one any good.”

“Does history record any case in which the majority was right?”

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”

“Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.”

“I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.”

“The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.”

“Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.”

“I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?”

“The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.”

“Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.”

“There isso mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.”

“This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.”

“I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come form being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.”

“If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?”

“The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.”

“What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite legally, have brought about her poverty?”

“I’m a hick,” I recall saying to him. “No,” Harrison answered. “You think you’re less than you are. You’re a smart hick.” And then, “You have the eyes of a doe and the balls of a samurai.”

“I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers.
Our brain does that sometimes.
Or at least mine does.”

“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.”

“This is the power of a kiss:
It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life.”

“Unheralded we came into this world. Unheralded we will go out. But while we are in this world, we do such deeds that even if this generation does not remember, the next generation cannot forget.”

“Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.”

“Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.”

“I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, "What's wrong?" Nothing. "Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile." Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?”

“Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”

“Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.”

“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”

“A warrior does not beg for his life. ~Izuru Kira”

“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”

“Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic Republic is like.”

“The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.”

“Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.”

“Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.”

“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.”

“What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.”

“The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.”

“That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”

“Does anything on you work properly?" Asked ter Borcht.
"Well, I do have a highly developed sense of irony." Replied Iggy.”

“How does it feel, MacKayla? You have a piece of me in your mouth. Would you like another?”

“Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?”

“News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has been exhausted, at least temporarily.”

“Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.”

“There are memories that time does not erase… Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.”

“The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.”

“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”

“All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.”

“The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.”

“Heritage does not equal destiny.”

“Katniss, I don't think President Snow will kill Peeta. If he does, he won't have any way to hurt you."
"So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask.
"Whatever it takes to break you.”

“The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall?
The Once-ler: Uh, down?
The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.”

“The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”

“As civilisation advances, so does indifference.”

“Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?”

“I wonder how Admat can be everywhere. Is he in my sandal? Or is he my sandal itself? Why would a god bother to be a sandal? Does he wear shoes or sandals himself, invisible ones?”

“Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.”

“What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.”

“All of life, I wanted to tell him, is in our minds. Where else does it take place, where else do we add up what it means to us and subtract what we have lost? An event is just an event until some person attaches meaning to it.”

“It passes, but it does not pass away.”

“it sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics…”

“Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.The country is grey and
brown and white in trees,
snows and skies of laughter
always diminishing, less funny
not just darker, not just grey.It may be the coldest day of
the year, what does he think of
that? I mean, what do I? And if I do,
perhaps I am myself again.”

“If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.”

“Softly, Magnus said, "Aku cinta kamu."
"What does that mean?"
Magnus disentangled himself from Alec's grip. "It means I love you. Not that that changes anything.”

“How does one become a butterfly?" she asked.
"You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”

“We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.”

“If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

“He is bound to you,” said the Queen. “But does he love you?”

“A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid.”

“I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.”

“I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.”

“How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)”

“Sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmitted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.”

“It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia
"Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza
"No. But it does help with the self-pity."- Cynthia”

“But he does insist on a conversation. Goddamn it! Why can't people just do what I want them to do and be gone? It's a worldwide conspiracy to make me be polite when I don't want to be.”

“When snow melts, what does it become?'
It becomes water, of course'
Wrong! It becomes spring!”

“The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.”

“Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.”

“It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.”

“Alexander, my nights, my days, my every thought. You will fall away from me in just a while, won’t you, and I’ll be whole again, and I will go on and feel for someone else, the way everybody does.

But my innocence is gone forever.”

“I’ve lived a long time,” Magnus said. “So many years, and no, it doesn’t feel like enough. I won’t lie and say it does. I want to live on—partly because of you, Alec. I have never wanted to live so much as I have these past few months, with you.”

“Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.”

“Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.”

“And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that”

“What does it mean?" Emily said, in a low, panicked voice: "What does it mean if a rainbow comes before rain?”