Top 100 Do They Quotes
#1. I wonder, now, about interrogation chambers: why do they think bright light brings the truth out of people? They should try the seduction of shadows, where you cannot watch your words hit their target.
Anna Funder
#2. Well, what shall I say; our inward thoughts, do they ever show outwardly? There may be a great fire in our soul, but no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a little bit of smoke coming through the chimney, and pass on their way.
Vincent Van Gogh
#3. I really like narrative songs, but I wonder if that's a thing for some people. Once they've heard the story, do they really need to hear the story again?
Craig Finn
#4. I am afraid of people because they want me to lead the same kind of life as they do. They want me to dance jolly and cheerful things. I do not like jollity. I love life.
Vaslav Nijinsky
#5. You can see the old cities still everywhere. The bones and bricks go to dust, but the little pieces of plastic never do - they never adapt either.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#6. What is it with boys? How do they slide into fucked-upness so quickly, with such natural ease?
Aleksandar Hemon
#7. Do adults realize how lucky they are? Or do they forget that these small moments are actually small miracles? I don't want to ever forget.
Stephanie Perkins
#8. ...why, when people write words do they capitalize "I"? Why not capitalize "You" too? For You are as important as I am. It's hard for me to understand the human ways.
Kate McGahan
#9. I suppose it doesn't matter how they get out. All that matters is they do. And when they do, they must be found. They must go back.
Victoria Schwab
#10. Release. This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think, will have MAD stamped across it. One of the
Nathan Filer
#11. Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#12. Out, beefy. The women folk have work to do."
Bish laughed and pointed to himself. "I'm beefy, I suppose."
"Well, no one else in this room has his arms stuffed into his sleeves like sausage casings, now do they?
Shelly Crane
#13. They think of me as a rich bitch, a frail little toy. Little do they know that I'm not a toy, I'm a storm. And I'm going to rip their lives apart.
L.J. Shen
#14. No boyfriend wants to see their girlfriend in a video with a big, handsome black dude feeding his fingers into her mouth, do they? But that concept is my expression, and boyfriends have to deal with that, don't they?
FKA Twigs
#15. Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths
Muhammad Ali
#16. What you want in a romantic comedy, is to have two people that you want to see together and how do they overcome the obstacles that are in the way for that to happen.
Patrick Dempsey
#17. Do they really think that a limited intellect means a child can't feel viciousness in a person's touch or hear anger in the tone of their voice?
Martin Pistorius
#18. Just be you. I've learned the hard way and in the end, some people are just so full of hate that no matter what you say or do, they'll always have something to say.
Megan Fox
#19. If those extra-social brains are so potent, why after all do they effect so little? A dull police-officer, with the machine behind him, can afford to laugh at most experiments in anarchy.
John Buchan
#21. What do they call that hat Jewish guys always wear? A Yankees cap.
Anthony Jeselnik
#22. What happens when two introverts collide? Do they dissolve completely in each other's patience and silence, or do they break their glass shells and become new people?
Kanza Javed
#23. Your kids never really leave do they? They might live elsewhere, sometimes not even on the same continent, but Mum is always first port of call when there's trouble. Parenting is a lifetime commitment.
Cindy Vine
#24. It's a digital e-cigarette." "What's digital about it?" "You hold it in your fingers, like this." "I'm serious. Is it part of the Internet of things? Do they know when you're smoking it?" "I don't think so. I think they just mean it works on electricity.
Nell Zink
#25. 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
#26. Some people want it all and expect it all; always looking outward, so often proclaiming what they deserve, even more saying what they want, and all thinking another should provide it for them. Do they ever bother to be the person they think someone else would love to have?
Donna Lynn Hope
#27. Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling their expectations.
Irving Townsend
#28. Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?
John Kricfalusi
#29. One of the first steps toward successful leadership in the human realm is asking ourselves this question, "When people draw near us, do they recognize that we know God?
Teresa Hampton
#30. And what do they even call this? It's not a threesome, or a love triangle. It's a two-and-a-half-some, an affection dihedron.
N.K. Jemisin
#31. With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext.
Lana Wachowski
#32. Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow.
Doris Grumbach
#33. Oh, you monster!No one exists but you, do they? You and your music!
Peter Shaffer
#34. And now we're supposed to go back to our normal lives. That's what people do. They have these amazing experiences with another person, and then they just go home and clean the bathroom or whatever.
Susane Colasanti
#35. Socratic question: all plans? Some? Which ones? How do they do so?
Will Evans
#36. Your parents don't give you much love, do they?'
'I don't need that stuff,' I told her.
'Henry, everybody needs love.'
'I don't need anything.'
'You poor boy.
Charles Bukowski
#37. It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.
Rumer Godden
#38. If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi
#39. Why do they call it research if I've only done it this one time?
Brandon Sanderson
#40. But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good.
Mose Allison
#42. You may have committed a very bad fault but if you repent for it a lot; if you repent 'heartily' for it; the fault will have to go away. But people don't repent 'heartily', do they? They just say superficially that 'it was my fault'!
Dada Bhagwan
#43. Right. Vampires. But how do they get inside?"
"They fly" ...
"We dont fly," Clary felt impelled to point out.
"No," Jace agreed. "We dont fly. We break and enter." ...
"Flying sounds like more fun."
-Clary & Jace, pg.258-
Cassandra Clare
#44. Do they come to bury the others or to be entombed to give life or to receive it?
Ralph Ellison
#45. Come the rains and the beerbahutis appeared all over the green. From where do they emerge, so perfect in shape and colour, and where do they go?
Qurratulain Hyder
#46. If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
Michel De Montaigne
#47. Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.
John O. Brennan
#48. If you squeeze and squeeze, and you don't allow the Iranians to sell any oil, then what do they have to lose by shutting the Strait of Hormuz down? And if they do that, that's 35% of all the world's oil that comes through the strait and 20% of the liquefied natural gas in the world.
Steve Hanke
#49. Political and social institutions are to be judged by the good or harm that they do to individuals. Do they encourage creativeness rather than possessiveness? Do they embody or promote a spirit of reverence between human beings? Do they preserve self-respect? In
Bertrand Russell
#50. How do things, whether they are movies, or plays, Hamilton, or people, ideas - how do they become transformative or iconic? That is in some ways what the actual Star Wars saga gets at, with the tale of the rise and the fall of the empire and the rise and the fall of Republics.
Cass Sunstein
#51. You can't keep children in the nursery forever. If you do, they never become grown-ups, but they're not really children either. They are just pets.
Philip Reeve
#52. I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#53. I've heard many say "I'll sell my soul to the Devil"
in hopes of gaining money, power or fame.
Why do they think that they have that much worth over any other person?
And the Devil if there is one wouldn't simply wait for them to condemn themselves on their own
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#54. That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.
Maxine Waters
#55. But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream ... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.
Neil Gaiman
#56. What a swarm of the pseudo-"delivered" stares down at us from the pinnacle of their salvation! Their conscience is clear - do they not claim to locate themselves above their actions? An intolerable swindle.
Emil Cioran
#57. We are all different in every individual person. But from here I ask myself what do they see when I see a car which is red, what colour do they see, do they see also red and is the same colour which I know red for them?
Deyth Banger
#58. When I leave here, will this shop vanish the way they do in the stories?" "I'm afraid so, yes." "Why do they always do that?" The old man sighed. "You know, you're the first one who ever asked me that." But
Harlan Ellison
#59. When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. "Do they expect students not to be anarchists?" he said. "What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up
Ursula K. Le Guin
#60. Headlines don't have to
be complete sentences, nor do they have to be punctuated unless they are.
Thomas Bivins
#61. I happen to be kind of an inquisitive guy and when I see things I don't like, I start thinking, why do they have to be like this and how can I improve them?
Walt Disney
#62. Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?
Helen Prejean
#63. I am demonized because I don't see party affiliation or nationality when I look at a person, I see that person's heart. If someone looks, dresses, acts, talks and votes like a Republican, then why do they deserve support just because he/she calls him/herself a Democrat?
Cindy Sheehan
#64. Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?
Steven Wright
#65. If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi
#66. So, what do they pay you for ... exactly?"
Slapped around. Tied up. Beaten. Given orders, made to do things."
"What kind of things?"
"You know."
No, I can't even begin to imagine."
"Lick my boots, crawl on floor, eat like dog."
"Nothing useful, then, like hoovering?
Kate Atkinson
#67. Do they care about Literature and Art? That is the most important when you come to think of it. Literature and Art. Most important.
E. M. Forster
#68. When a thin person announces, "Here's a great taco place," I kind of shut down a little. How do they know it's so great? From smelling the tacos? If they only ate one taco, the taco could not have been that great.
Jim Gaffigan
#69. I love scenes that are just emotional give and take. By the same token, action sequences are great to do. They have their own unique demands and requirements. So I take it as it comes, and hopefully you can get a good balance of all of that stuff.
Stephen Lang
#70. What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
Winston S. Churchill
#71. It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
Dana Brunetti
#72. The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see what I'm going to do. They've never seen me. In the 1960s, those were hippies. They were wired up already. The kids today know me because I've worked with Jeff Tweedy and other young producers.
Mavis Staples
#73. Is it true that some stories only just manage to be born? Or do these stories always seek their own path into the world and do they always, eventually, find a way of being told?
Benny Lindelauf
#74. Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.
Trent Lott
#75. You ever wonder why people get out of bed in the morning? why do they bother? why not just drink turpentine?
Janet Fitch
#76. It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as
naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.
Abraham Lincoln
#77. The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.
Heraclitus
#78. Girls throw their panties on the stage, but rarely if ever do they fit.
Emo Philips
#79. All people naturally hate. My kid bites people now. I didn't teach my kid to bite anybody. Kids say mean stuff. Only through love do we get this evil out of them. Only through love and structure and discipline do they not hate. The kids that hate didn't learn anything, that's the problem.
Chris Rock
#80. God, do they make WD-40 for flirting? Because I am rusty.
Cora Carmack
#81. Some might say that one's faith is a private matter and should not be spoken of so publicly. They might assert this in public, but what do they really think in their hearts? The fact is, those who say such things usually don't even have a concern for faith in the privacy of their interior lives.
William Wilberforce
#82. For me, time does not seem to pass; rather, it surrounds me. Thus I do not feel removed from memories, nor do they lose their intensity. I have keen recollections not because I have a good memory - I simply retrieve them from the ether. When memories have no velocity, they are very much at hand.
Peter Ruperte Lighte
#83. Do people choose the art that inspires them - do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.
Alice Hoffman
#84. How do these people have any credibility? How do they get away with this? It's mind boggling that its gotten to a point where the EPA is dictating policy based on what is an obvious fraud, or if you want to be gentle about it, creates enough doubt to back off.
Joe Bastardi
#85. What is the purpose of these dolls?"
"To play with, of course."
"Do they look Ukrainian, with their plastic eyes and muddy features blended from every race on earth?
Paul Christensen
#86. But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions?
Vincent Van Gogh
#87. I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.
Estelle
#88. Vikrant : I want to taste honey pot, You are shy, free yourself, like an animal, feel like an animal, they don't know sin. Do they?
Himmilicious
#89. Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them?
Ann Coulter
#90. I don't know what a person does that does not have a relationship with God. When he goes to the doctor and the doctors says, 'Hey, you've got less than two months to live and there's nothing we can do for you.' Who do they turn to when you're given something that earth shattering?
Si Robertson
#91. Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?
Douglas Adams
#92. The tragedy in our colleges and seminaries right now is that we turn men out who know the word of God. That is never going to turn the world.
The question is not whether they know the Word of God ...
The question is ... Do they know the God of the Word?
Leonard Ravenhill
#93. Why do they believe that?" "Because we are hackers," Csongor said, "and they have seen movies.
Neal Stephenson
#94. Do other mothers behold their newborn sons as I did? Do they all find themselves stopped, breathless, in what they were doing to merely stare, in wonder, at the tiny life before them?
Elizabeth C. Bunce
#95. You oughtn't to see this," Will muttered in my ear. "You'll never want to have a baby if you do. They oughtn't to let women watch. It'll be the end of the human race.
Sylvia Plath
#96. I tried piano, acting, and a bunch of things. My family let me do what I wanted to do; they made sure I had balance in my life because I was self-driven. Listen to your kid, encourage them, and make it fun.
Summer Sanders
#97. That's what governors do, they wrestle with the issues, they find solutions and they move the agenda forward. At the appropriate time we'll talk about all of these issues, while remembering that our party is a big tent party. We lose when we try to become exclusive to one particular set of issues.
Jon Huntsman Jr.
#98. When people don't understand that being uncomfortable is part of the process of achievement, they use the discomfort as a reason not to do. They don't get what they want. We must learn to tolerate discomfort in order to grow.
Peter McWilliams
#99. what do you miss
do they miss you
when they're around
do they support your peace
or create chaos
what are you missing
who are you missing
R H Sin
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