Quotes about doe
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“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”

Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher

Change, Friendship, For Friend

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”

Jack Kornfield (1945) American writer

Source: Buddha's Little Instruction Book

“When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Life, Mountain

“I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?”

Kate DiCamillo book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Love, Star

“Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.”

Paul Klee (1879–1940) German Swiss painter

Section I

(de) Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar.
1916 - 1920, Creative Credo (1920)
Variant: Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

Art

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

23 February 1944 http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~param/quotes/annefrank.html <br class="br">(1942 - 1944) <br class="br">Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

God, Happiness, People, Beauty

“There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.”

William Makepeace Thackeray book The History of Henry Esmond

Bk. II, ch. 1.
The History of Henry Esmond (1852)
Source: The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.

Lying

“I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

People, Courage, Thinking

“I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.”

Virginia Woolf book Jacob's Room

Source: Jacob's Room

Spring, Autumn, Thinking

“As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Source: De Profundis and Other Writings

Pain, Mood, Suffering, Time

“You haven't been bit till a dragon does it.”

Tamora Pierce book Emperor Mage

Source: Emperor Mage

“A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

People

“No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: Wolves of the Calla

Children

“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Life

“Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?”

Christine de Pizan (1365–1430) Italian French late medieval author

Source: Der Sendbrief vom Liebesgott / The Letter of the God of Love

Women, Imagination

“Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

Bogeyman Economics
1980s–1990s, Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays (1987)
Source: Compassion Versus Guilt, and Other Essays: And Other Essays

“It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

Soul, Courage, Fight

“God does not play games with His loyal servants", said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice.
"Whoopee", said Crowley.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

God, Game

“The thing about God, she thought, is that He usually does help, but not until you've made an effort on your own.”

Tove Jansson book The Summer Book

Source: The Summer Book

God, Effort, Help

“Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.”

Pablo Casals (1876–1973) Catalan cellist and conductor

Love, Books, Music, Way

“Why a raven?"
"To honor my father."
"The writing under it, is that Cyrillic?"
"Yes."
"What does it say?"
"Dar Vorona. Gift of the Raven. I am my father's gift."
"The raven is holding a bloody sword."
"I never said it was a nice gift.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bites

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

Life, Education

“Don't ask permission. If it does not work, you can apologize later.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

Motivational, Wise, Deep, Success

“[Whose_property]Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the State die? Oh no.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“Osteopathy” (1901), in Mark Twain's Speeches, p. 253 http://books.google.com/books?id=jmhaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA253&dq=%22Whose+property+is+my+body%22 <br class="br">Source: Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings

“Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Sec. 232
Variant: We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way — not at all or in an interesting manner.
Source: The Gay Science (1882)

Life, Dreams, Way, Learning

“Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.”

Paulo Coelho book The Fifth Mountain

Variant: Sorrows do not last forever when we are journeying towards the thing we have always wanted.
Source: The Fifth Mountain

Sadness

“I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

World

“Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.”

Cees Nooteboom (1933) Dutch writer

Parting

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Way, Wise

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant

“I just… I just miss him. And hate being so alone. Does he miss me? He must”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Variant: I just... I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.
Source: The Hunger Games

Hate, Missing You

“Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.”

Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher

Beauty

“Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake?”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Variant: Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?

Imagination

“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

“How does he love me? With adoration, with fertile tears,
With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.”

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night

Love, Tear

“Speak roughly to your little boy
and beat him when he sneezes!
he only does it to annoy,
because he knows it teases!”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

Boy

“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. (150)”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

Dance

“You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.”

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) Italian author and poet

Way, Reading, Perseverance, Night

“Well, everybody does it that way, Huck."
"Tom, I am not everybody.”

Mark Twain book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Way

“One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Source: Any Minute

Life, Personality

“You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

People

“… Any fool can love somebody who's perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn't stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they've hurt you.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Hot Shot

Love, Fools, Soul, Hurt

“You are old beyond your years Zoeybird. Believe in yourself and you will find a way. But remember darkness does not always equate to evil just like light does not always bring good.”

P. C. Cast book Marked

Source: Marked

Way, Light, Evil

“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations

Star, Change

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

Art

“I don't regret it, you know. I would do it all again. Children are our hope for the future."
THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, said Death.
"What does it contain, then?"
ME.”

Terry Pratchett book Sourcery

Source: Sourcery

Death, Children, Hope, Future

“But it's also true that the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing. All we know about the future is that it will be different. But perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same. So we must celebrate the changes.”

Deborah Moggach (1948) English writer

Fear, Change, Future, Personality

“The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.”

Raymond E. Feist book The King's Buccaneer

Source: The King's Buccaneer

Fear, Failure, Learning

“Human subtlety…will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

Richter II p. 126 no. 837 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=A7dUhbBfmzMC&pg=PA126 <br class="br">The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting

Beauty, Nature

“Does anyone in this land act like they're supposed to?”

Tamora Pierce book Wild Magic

Source: Wild Magic

“Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists
Source: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/15-quotes-from-chimamanda-adichie-that-have-change/

Women, People

“A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.”

Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471) German canon regular

Books

“When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.”

Mark Twain book Pudd'nhead Wilson

Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson

“Intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike.”

Octavia E. Butler book Dawn

Dawn

Intelligence

“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Fools

“But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”

Thomas Paine book The Age of Reason

Source: 1790s, The Age of Reason, Part I (1794)

Happiness, Faith

“I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does.”

Andy Rooney (1919–2011) writer, humorist, television personality

Source: Sincerely, Andy Rooney

People, Religion, Thinking

“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

Happiness, Way, Dependency, Happy

“Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”

Thomas Paine book The Age of Reason

Source: The Age of Reason

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”

Barbra Streisand (1942) American singer, actress, writer, film producer, and director

Change, Anniversary

“Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm!”

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Source: A Streetcar Named Desire

“One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?”

May Sarton (1912–1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist

Source: Journal of a Solitude

Love, Reality, Sense, Time

“He is not a lover who does not love forever.”

Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright

Love, Lovers, Sad, Heartbreaking

“Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Love, Dreams, Reality

“Not only does God play dice but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

God

“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Forgiveness

“I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells,
dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses.
I want to do with you
what spring does with the cherry trees.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Mountain, Spring, Flowers, Kiss

“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?”

Virginia Woolf book To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

Men, World, Time, Dependency

“If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it. —ALBERT EINSTEIN”

Michio Kaku (1947) American theoretical physicist, futurist and author

Source: Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

Hope, Idea

“Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Source: A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael

Faith, Question, Faith

“Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”

Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor

“The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.”

Novalis (1772–1801) German poet and writer

Source: Novalis: Philosophical Writings

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a whole book — what everyone else does not say in a whole book.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Twilight of the Idols

Things the Germans Lack, 51
Twilight of the Idols (1888)

Books

“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.”

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night

Sun

“There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

Pain, People, Soul, Imagination

“I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Understanding

“If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

World, Business

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Pt. 1, ch. 2
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Variant: I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing.
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Love, Fear, Reading

“So what does that actually mean?'
'To be honest, Ghastly, I haven't a bull's notion.'
'Elder Bespoke should be addressed by his full title,' Tipstaff said.
'Of course,' Skulduggery said. 'To be honest, Your Highness, I haven't a bull's notion.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

“Does everybody ever want everything they can have? really?”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Spellbinder

“Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet