Quotes about doe
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“If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.”

George Lois (1931) American art director, designer and author

God, World, Passion

“That sounds almost practiced, James Carstairs. How many girls have you made swoon with that observation?"
"There is only one girl I care to make swoon," he said. "The question is, does she?"
She smiled at him. "She does.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Smile, Girl, Question

“The farmer has patience and trusts the process. He just has the faith and deep understanding that through his daily efforts, the harvest will come. And then one day, almost out of nowhere, it does.”

Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer

Source: The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life

Faith, Understanding, Effort, Patience

“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”

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

Life, Fools, Question, Wise

“There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house. What does it mean? I asked. A pirate needs the sight of the sea, he said and then he pulled his eye patch down and turned and sailed away.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

Housing, Sea

“Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“if something does go wrong, here is my advice… KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.”

Maira Kalman (1949) Israeli American artist and creator of children's books

Source: The Principles of Uncertainty

“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Source: Meditations

Happiness, Thinking

“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Understanding, Knowledge, Learning, Memory

“Who is Alice?" asked mother.
"Alice is somebody that nobody can see," said Frances. "And that is why she does not have a birthday. So I am singing Happy Thursday to her." - Frances the badger”

Russell Hoban (1925–2011) American British novelist, children's writer and illustrator

Source: A Birthday for Frances

Happiness, Birthday, Singing

“How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.”

Elspeth Huxley (1907–1997) Kenyan writer

Source: The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

Imagination, Light, Water

“Does it give you déjà voodoo how alike the houses are?"

"That's déjà vu, and I hate you right now”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Hate, Housing

“No, not you two. Stay here.'
'Does he just not get how unfair and sexist that is?' Eve asked. 'Men.'
'You really want to go first?'
'Of course no. But I'd like the chance toto go first.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Lord of Misrule

Men, Chance

“True love. Is it normal
is it serious, is it practical?
What does the world get from two people
who exist in a world of their own?”

Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer

Source: View With a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

Love, People, World

“Love does not to be understood. It needs only to be shown.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

Love

“Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity”

James Baldwin book The Fire Next Time

Source: The Fire Next Time

“The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.”

Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate

“It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author

Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I

Smile, Beauty

“Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Way, Beer

“I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.”

Patrick O'Brian book Post Captain

Source: Post Captain

Exercises

“Who does ever get what they want? It doesn’t seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It’s always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.”

Kent Haruf (1943–2014) Novelist

Source: Our Souls at Night

People, Dreams, Idea, Understanding

“Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: The Gift

Forgiveness

“How does it feel? To be on your own, with no direction home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone?”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Like a Rolling Stone

Feeling, Home

“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal… one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.”

Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) French writer

Friendship, Cats, Animals

“How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.”

Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

Love

“Keys," she repeated, and slowly stepped back. "What do you mean, keys?"

"Car keys. As in, give them up. Now." Shane had that look -- hard, and no bullshit. "We don't have time for your drama, Monica. Nobody does.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Last Breath

Cars, Time

“God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.”

Katherine Anne Porter book The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

God, Soul

“There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear…" he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "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

“A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think.”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

Source: The Signature of All Things

Thinking, Parent, Personality

“With the whole Mark of Cain thing, does that mean if I accidentally kick you during the night, I get kicked in the shins seven times by an invisible force?”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Time, Night

“Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.”

David Foster Wallace book The Broom of the System

Source: The Broom of the System

Girl

“We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it.”

Patrick Rothfuss (1973) American fantasy writer

Love

“Excellence does not require perfection.”

Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic

Perfection

“I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.”

Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress

Stupidity, Sense

“The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts to build more just social, economic, and political relationships and the eradication of other forms of injustices and oppression.”

Gene Sharp book From Dictatorship to Democracy

Source: From Dictatorship to Democracy

Way, Effort

“The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.”

Jonathan Swift book Les Voyages de Gulliver

Source: Gulliver's Travels

God

“Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

Beauty

“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Walden (1854)
Context: A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made. Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.<!--pp.366-367

Music

“The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.”

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

Source: The Ethics of Confucius

Faith, Loyalty

“God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.”

Elizabeth Wein book Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

God

“Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.”

Richard Dawkins book The Selfish Gene

Source: The Selfish Gene

“The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts.”

Rhonda Byrne book The Secret

Source: The Secret

Money, Personality

“Hope does not leave without being given permission.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Hope, Hope

“One does not greet the Queen of the Seelie Court with the barbarous human 'hello'…”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001) American aviator and author

Courage

“I buried a nickel under the porch when I was 8, she said, but one day my grandma died & they sold the house & I never got to go back for it.
A nickel used to mean something, I said.
She nodded. It still does, she said & then she started to cry.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

Grandma, Housing, Cry

“God does not play dice with the universe.”

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

Source: The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-55

God, Universe

“stanchion, n.

I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Feeling, Strong

“To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.”

Martin Buber book I and Thou

Source: I and Thou

God, World, Help

“Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.”

Dallas Willard (1935–2013) American philosopher

God

“Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

Evil

“Where does a werewolf sleep? Anywhere he wants to.”

Patricia Briggs book Silver Borne

Source: Silver Borne

Sleep

“Who wills, Can.
Who tries, Does.
Who loves, Lives.”

Anne McCaffrey (1926–2011) American-Irish novelist

Source: "Dragonrider", published in Analog (January 1968), p. 148; also in Dragonsong, (1976) Ch. 7, p. 89

Love

“Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Books

“The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.”

Tom Robbins book Another Roadside Attraction

Another Roadside Attraction (1971)

Life

“Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names… well, it usually says more about THEM than it does about us.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

God, Way, Daughters

“For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.”

John Steinbeck book Cannery Row

Source: Cannery Row

World

“A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.”

Benjamin Hoff book The Tao of Pooh

The Now of Pooh.
Source: The Tao of Pooh (1982)
Context: Abstract cleverness of the mind only separates the thinker from the world of reality, and that world, the Forest of Real Life, is in a desperate condition now because of too many who think too much and care too little. In spite of what many minds have thought themselves into believing, that mistake cannot continue for much longer if everything is going to survive. The one chance we have to avoid certain disaster is to change our approach, and learn to value wisdom and contentment. These are things that are being searched for anyway, through Knowledge and Cleverness, but they do not come from Knowledge and Cleverness. They never have, and they never will. We can no longer afford to look so desperately hard for something in the wrong way and in the wrong place. If Knowledge and Cleverness are allowed to go on wrecking things, they will before much longer destroy all life on this earth as we know it, and what little may temporarily survive will not be worth looking at, even if it were possible for us to do so.

Wisdom, Knowledge, Heart