Top 100 Does In Quotes
#1. If I'm ever at a mall or some kind of place where there's a lot of younger girls, some people will recognize me from 'Degrassi.' But then it won't happen for a long time. It's funny - it happens more here in the States than it does in Canada.
Jake Epstein
#2. No one country has a team that hold a monopoly on the league like Maccabi does in Israel.
Michael Kennedy
#3. The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a game. If you can improve players' self-esteem and confidence, get them to relax, teach visualization and routine, they will shoot as well, or better, with the pressure on.
John Calipari
#4. Asian food is very easy to like because it hits your mouth very differently than European food does. In European food, there may be two things to hit - maybe sweet and salty, maybe salty-savory, but Asian kind of works around, plus you have that distinct flavor that's usually working in Asian food.
Tom Colicchio
#5. In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.
Eliza Griswold
#6. People are most similar to God when he is the object of their affection. People should delight in God, as he does in himself.
Edward T. Welch
#7. Iraq failed for the same reasons that all conservative public policy efforts fail. Refusing to acknowledge the importance of government while relying on it to achieve your objectives causes the same kind of chaos in foreign policy that it does in matters closer to home.
Alan Wolfe
#8. Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism continues to enjoy the traction that it does in our poor civilization.
L. Neil Smith
#9. I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#10. When the abuse is mutual, it dissolves of its own accord, the way it does in quarrels between brothers and sister when they are still young. Or else it accumulates, until the next time
Javier Marias
#11. God is glo- rified in his people by the way we experience him, not merely by the way we think about him. Indeed the devil thinks more true thoughts about God in one day than a saint does in a lifetime, and God is not honored by it.
Anonymous
#12. Bryzgalov isn't just a running comedy act. He's one of the league's most thoughtful players and the fact that he offers the insight he does in his second language is something he'll never get enough credit for.
Ilya Bryzgalov
#13. I always hate telling my jokes in print 'cause I always feel like it reads so not funny and people read it and they think, 'Oh, so that's what that guy does in his stand-up? That's terrible.'
Aziz Ansari
#14. Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved.
J.G. Farrell
#15. And as for the risk, there's risks in pretty near everything a body does in this world. There's risks in people's having children of their own if it comes to that--they don't always turn out well.
L.M. Montgomery
#16. People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.
Rachel Nichols
#17. The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive years of use with many generations of babies.
Alice Morse Earle
#20. I show people the techniques for gaining knowledge, and this inspires them in their search for truth, freedom and happiness. I also try to show people that truth exists as much in this world as it does in any other world.
Frederick Lenz
#21. I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.
Lady Gaga
#22. Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Moliere
#23. When one expects to go on "forever" as one does in one's youth or even middle age, horizons are merely limits, not yet ends. It is when one first sees the horizon as an end that one first begins to see.
Archibald MacLeish
#24. It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
Gertrude Stein
#25. Jane Austen has often been praised as a natural historian. She is a naturalist among tame animals. She does not study men (as Dostoevsky does) in his wild state before he has been domesticated. Her men and women are essentially men and women of the fireside.
Robert Wilson Lynd
#26. The most important single thing that any Latter-day Saint ever does in this world is to marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority.
Bruce R. McConkie
#27. For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.
Joey Ramone
#28. 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.
D.H. Lawrence
#29. Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.
Josh Billings
#30. When I was 14, I came very close to becoming a gay teen suicide 'statistic,' but I then turned to music, my piano, my loved ones, and discovered that it does in fact get better.
Blake McIver Ewing
#31. I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run.
Clarence Thomas
#32. Love itself is the most elitist of passions. It acquires its stereoscopic substance and perspective only in the context of culture, for it takes up more place in the mind than it does in bed. Outside of that setting it falls flat into one-dimensional fiction.
Joseph Brodsky
#33. No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along.
Cus D'Amato
#34. The outfit, tight in places,
and loose in some, says as much
in the buttons as it does in cuffs.
Kristen Henderson
#35. A talk show is about having a look at a famous face, a bit of stand-up comedy, knockabout stuff - an interview is what Barbara Walters or Connie Chung does in the States, in-depth, done properly.
Terry Wogan
#36. No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
Rose Wilder Lane
#37. Our passing interrupted the road crossing, and the crowd bunched on both sides waited for us to go by as we all waited for the war to go by, thinking we can suspend or postpone living and not knowing that in war the heart grows older than it does in dreams
Dan Davin
#38. There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.
Ben Mendelsohn
#39. Do you want to know what I most regret about my youth? That I didn't dream more boldly and demand of myself more impossible things; for all one does in maturity is to carve in granite or porphyry the soap bubble one blew in youth! Oh to have dreamed harder!
Lewis Mumford
#40. Prayer consists in the transformation of what we do in the name of Jesus to what Holy Spirit does in us as we follow Jesus.
Eugene H. Peterson
#41. I still can't picture what he does in his every day life when he's not busy with school or misdemeanors or me.
Brenna Yovanoff
#42. The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus.
Mark Galli
#43. When you go for business, you just see the airport, the offices, cities. You never see what 80 per cent of the population does in a country, so if you want to understand what Indonesia is made of, or the depths of China or India, you have to go and see.
Jean-Pascal Tricoire
#44. I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
Thomas Merton
#45. All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal entity and to bring to the fore yet another inadequacy.
Jean Helion
#46. What I lack in technique, I think I make up more for in intuition. I think intuition is underrated and so important in the work that one does in one's life.
Stacy Peralta
#47. The remedy for our social evils does not consist so much in changing the system of government as it does in increasing the general intelligence of the people so that they may learn how to govern.
Charles Lindbergh
#48. I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power than God does, in whatever form he has, if he exists, because I can work without the overarching ambition of wanting to rule over everything. I can work just for the heck of it.
Raymond Pettibon
#49. Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Will Rogers
#50. What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.
Anish Kapoor
#51. The test of a man's religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.
Oswald Chambers
#52. I've been checking with people back in South Florida to see if Hurricane Dennis is going to whack my house, and the consensus of the experts seems to be: No, it will not, unless it does, in which case, yes. So I'm feeling really calm over here in London.
Dave Barry
#53. To imagine yourself inside another person ... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
Eudora Welty
#54. Time seemed, as it always does in adulthood after a particular stretch has concluded, no matter how ponderous or unpleasant the stretch was to endure, to have passed quickly indeed.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#55. Tim Tebow is one of my biggest inspirations. I actually want to be able to do some of the things that he does in terms of the amount of charity work and the non-profit work, and the way he impacts people off the field. I think that is what is most inspiring to me about him.
Jeremy Lin
#56. Chronological living is a kind of lie. That's why I don't do it anymore. Existence doesn't have more meaning in one direction than it does in any other. Completing the days of your life in strict calendar order can feel forced. Arbitrary.
Charles Yu
#57. Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#58. It's what the Taliban does in Afghanistan, it's what gets done in the Middle East, and it's clearly something that certain mainly conservative groups in the United States would like to do. They miss the good old days, when men were men and women were nothing.
Anna Quindlen
#59. I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.
J.K. Rowling
#60. His kingdom come! For this we pray in vain,
Unless He does in our affections reign.
How fond it were to wish for such a King,
And no obedience to his sceptre bring,
Whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light;
His service freedom, and His judgments right.
Edmund Waller
#61. The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.
Paulo Freire
#62. In all of its vulnerability, profound sincerity does, in its relationship to knowledge, find its way.
John De Ruiter
#64. Fiction, when it's done right, does in the daylight what dreams do at night: we leave the confines of our own experiences and go to common ground, where for a time we are not alone.
Jincy Willett
#65. Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.
Pedro Almodovar
#66. My sister does all this community-service type stuff in Portland that makes the world a much better place. And I make as much in a two-day commercial shoot as she does in five years, which is ridiculous.
Alex Honnold
#67. We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government.
Mitch Daniels
#68. We should not take the blessings of God for granted. We should always be careful to give God praise and thanksgiving for the work that he does in our lives.
Chuck Smith
#69. Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#70. At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs.
Erich Maria Remarque
#72. I also understood that God's love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His grace as it does in the loftiest soul.
Therese Of Lisieux
#74. It was indescribable what she wanted. She was restless. She wanted to work. She wanted to be thirty people. She wanted to wear a cap of pearls and a coat of bright blue diamonds. To live as nature does, in many ages, in many brains
Danielle Dutton
#75. Everything a captain does in a team room is done to keep the team loose.
Beth Daniel
#76. Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.
Lamar Alexander
#77. I don't think any other city in the world ... the sun doesn't shine the same way anywhere as it does in New York. And then I guess everyone's very good at hanging out. Not in a crazy way, but you're just constantly interacting and learning.
Ben Lovett
#78. If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.
Larry Ellison
#79. Now, I think we can all agree that fear is a motivator. The problem is that fear can motivate us to do the wrong things, too. Fear can make the "saving of our skins" the priority, as it does in this case involving religious pluralism.
Curtis A. Chamberlain
#80. In few other marketing activities does the phrase "the more things change, the more they remain the same" hold as much meaning as it does in search.
David Amerland
#81. The more I think of it, the more I find this conclusion impressed upon me, that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way.
John Ruskin
#82. I'm not sure it's a better music world of appreciation and performance. I think the listener is a different guy, and listening is something he does in passing, with other stuff going on. There's less care and understanding of the relationship between the song and the listener.
Al Jarreau
#83. We can choose to be grateful, no matter what. This type of gratitude transcends whatever is happening around us. It surpasses disappointment, discouragement and despair. It blooms just as beautifully in the icy landscape of winter as it does in the pleasant warmth of summer.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#84. I have learned to have more trust in the scientist than he does in himself.
David Sarnoff
#85. I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory
Sam Savage
#86. There could be no such experience if death means extinction or cessation. Death always means separation, and it does in Romans 6 as well.
Charles C. Ryrie
#87. Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it.
Samuel Smiles
#88. A tangible object passes complete into my brain with the warmth of life upon it, and occupies the same place that it does in space; for, without egotism, the mind is as large as the universe.
Helen Keller
#89. What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'
Max Lucado
#90. All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.
Fernando Pessoa
#91. You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
Denis Diderot
#92. People always want to know how you know. And knowing in your heart is very hard to describe. I think so often, we're trying to understand something with our mind. But, actually, the Bible teaches us that much of what God does in our life will be difficult to understand with the mind.
Joyce Meyer
#93. You do the hundreds of things that a Christward heart does in the hope that God will put a match to those little sparks to cause it to become a conflagration in a community or in a nation.
John Piper
#94. I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.
Brandi Chastain
#95. Also, this is what a pregnant Busy Philipps does in her free time, I'm taking master fondant cake decorating class with Anna from 'Ace of Cakes' at Duff's Charm City Cakes. It's, like, 4 three-hour classes.
Busy Philipps
#96. The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth is God's truth; facts, as such, are sacred, and nothing is more un-Christian than to run away from them.
J.I. Packer
#97. Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding of why some long-past event occurred.
Milton H. Erickson
#98. Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.
John Joly
#99. How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!
Jean De La Bruyere
#100. A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
Kahlil Gibran
