Top 100 Does It Quotes
#1. When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.
Don Cornelius
#2. Jesus is my role model and He is whom I try to follow. Everything I do, I know I'm representing Him. Does it mean I do it well all the time? No. But I do ask for forgiveness for the times I bring Him a bad name.
Matt Diaz
#3. If someone has offended you, insulted you, or disappointed you, let it go! If you are remembering all the ways you have been hurt or forgotten, let it go! Ask yourself, what good does it do for me to hold on to this?
Iyanla Vanzant
#4. To paraphrase an old philosophical question, if a tree falls on the Internet and no search engine indexes it, does it make any noise?
Marc Goodman
#5. When I say art influences me, which it does, it's not at all in a literal form. You go and see exhibitions or collections or meet an artist. It's all a compilation. Every moment, at all times, all this information. Then all this information disappears, and it shows up later in the process.
Francisco Costa
#6. Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.
Budd Schulberg
#7. Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
#8. The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it.
It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it.
Neil Gaiman
#9. Affliction equips the suffering to empathize with others in anguish and not only does it strengthen them, it enables them to be consoling comforters in a world full of hurt.
Donna Lynn Hope
#10. Why is Earth Day, today, also Lenin's birthday? Coincidence? Or does it signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental movement?
Alan Caruba
#11. The legal status of something does not alter its moral status, nor does it change our responsibility to the truth.
John Stonestreet
#13. You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?
Larry Wall
#14. Until you practice surrender, the spiritual dimension is something you read about, talk about, get excited about, write books about, think about, believe in - or don't, as the case may be. It makes no difference. Not until you surrender does it become a living reality in your life.
Eckhart Tolle
#15. Impossible to know. The thing is, you take a fork in the road, it doesn't always work out for the better . . . but sometimes it does. It must.
John Sandford
#16. If time dilates when one moves at high speeds, does it contract when one moves barely at all? It must: the days have shortened considerably.
Paul Kalanithi
#17. Why, with all this good intention, does it still feel so muddy when we talk about culture, what it is, and how to make it better? It's because we're trying to bring personal growth and spiritual ideas into the workplace without first changing the underlying agreement that governs it. The
Jonathan Raymond
#18. Hurt of this magnitude is like menopause," Phyllis tells me. I've just wiped my nose with one of the hats. She takes it from me and hands me a tissue. "Comes in hot flashes. Just when you feel like you can't take it anymore, it passes for a bit. But it comes back, boy does it.
Tarryn Fisher
#19. It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?
David Letterman
#21. And there is nothing you can do to make God love you less. Love is not something God does. It is who God is. And because of who he is, God loves you. Period.
Craig Groeschel
#22. Freedom can never be true of name and form; it is the clay out of which we (the pots) are made; then it is limited and not free, so that freedom can never be true of the related. One pot can never say "I am free" as a pot; only as it loses all ideas of form does it become free.
Swami Vivekananda
#23. Etching is not putting down lines, as someone, who cannot do it himself, tells you to, or as he does it, but putting down lines for one's self that will print, that mean something to others, others who can see.
Joseph Pennell
#24. Advertising. The movies do it. TV does it. Why don't you do it?
Dale Carnegie
#26. No doubt.. Endings are hard, but then again.. nothing ever really ends, does it??
Chuck Shurley
#27. Time never stops, but does it end? and how many lives
before take-off, before we find ourselves
beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?
Tracy K. Smith
#28. If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?
Diane Ackerman
#29. Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of the first things I look at when I say, 'does it make sense to do a deal?'
Mike Rowe
#30. 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
#31. I've always been a very careful sailor. I know, me and being careful - doesn't really sound right, does it? But when I sail, I take it seriously and take along spares for everything. You have to be careful when you're 1,500 miles from land. There's no one you can call. You're on your own.
David Crosby
#32. A flower doesn't count the number of bees that come nor does it pump up its smell just when you walk by. Its nature, as is ours, is to expand itself no matter if anyone ever loves us back.
John Douillard
#33. The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?
Lev Grossman
#34. I LIKE FIRE... I LIKE THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF IT... I JUST COULDN'T STOP MYSELF FROM PLAYING WITH... - DOES it mean that I am a serial killer?
(People say that the beginning of a serial killer is - arsonist)
Deyth Banger
#35. It doesn't take any special training to ask the right question. Nor does it require a high IQ. The only real resource required to ask what people might love is time.
David Sturt
#36. I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as long as they leave me alone.' Well, guess what, when you don't care what the government does, it does not leave you alone.
Louie Gohmert
#37. Be like the sun. Not only does it shine through the day but also makes its presence felt at night by allowing the moon to reflect its light.
Chirag Tulsiani
#38. We as human beings do this thing where we stuff down our feelings until they find a way to manifest themselves. We try to avoid them until there's no more room and they come bubbling up like a pot of boiling-hot water that overflows. And when it does, it burns.
Jennifer Lopez
#39. One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the famous cosmologist go just a little bit crazy. How does it all fit together? Is there a single, overarching design to the cosmos? And if we find it, will we glimpse the mind of God?
Morgan Freeman
#40. Not playing by the rules, not seeing things conventionally, that's the heart of who he [ Steve Jobs] is, and he does it in small ways of everyday rebellion just almost to assert who he is, like not putting a license plate on his car.
Walter Isaacson
#42. But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired.
Melanie Benjamin
#43. This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
Aaron Klug
#44. Why does it always have to be that way? Why do good men always have to sacrifice themselves for others?
Because they believe that the rest of us are worth it.
Siri Mitchell
#45. Just bc u loved and lost doesn't mean stop loving. If u have a nightmare, does it mean u stop dreaming?
Jill Scott
#46. You remember the word we said when we pressed our hands together, right?"
I nodded. Forem. But what does it mean?"
"Forever," he said his breath shaky. "It means we're bonded together forever.
Jessica Sorensen
#47. How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? How many therapists do you think it takes to change a lightbulb?
Garrison Keillor
#48. I know how I get hard. Running on a treadmill behind women in a gym normally does it for me.
Kevin Hart
#49. Our best hope will never lie in individual survivalism. Nor does it lie in small groups doing their best to prepare for the worst. Our best and only hope is a resistance movement that is willing to face the scale of the horrors, gather our forces, and fight like hell for all we hold dear.
Lierre Keith
#50. Does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!
Eleanora Duse
#51. Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
Fabrice Grinda
#52. How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
Yann Martel
#53. The best players are always in the thick of the action. (Michael) Jordan did it with the Bulls, (Kobe) Bryant does it with the Lakers and Leo does it here. We want him to stay with us because he's the best and we wouldn't swap him for anyone.
Ronaldinho
#54. As a female there aren't too many characters that are very empowering, and there's something very empowering about Lara Croft. She kicks butt and she does it in style. She's confident and she's educated.
Camilla Luddington
#55. You know when you do 25 or 30 movies and people are still asking you how does it feel making the transition? you know youre not communicating correctly.
LL Cool J
#56. She's trying to sabotage all the magic holding this island together. But that would create a catastrophe for all of Hawaii."
"Well, that does it," Koko huffed. "As of today, she's off my Christmas card list.
Laurence Yep
#57. Let me know if you're in any pain, we're going through your groin with a tiny tube up to your heart." Doctor Casey said.
"Really, that's how my girlfriend does it. Only she doesn't have to medicate me first.
Lori Lesko
#58. The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense
all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good liturgy does. It breaks your heart open and turns you toward God.
Fred Bahnson
#59. What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
Jaron Lanier
#60. Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa."
"What does it mean?"
"You're beautiful.
Simone Elkeles
#61. How many people does it take to change a searchlight bulb?
Steven Wright
#62. It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that she is going to grow into a woman, not a man.
Jean Stafford
#63. The question becomes, because we're remotely far away from the territory we're about to bomb, does it make it easier to do it? That it is an important question, and the military is asking those questions.
Gavin Hood
#64. What does it mean?" Emily said, in a low, panicked voice: "What does it mean if a rainbow comes before rain?
Jaclyn Moriarty
#65. My streets, my cistern. My old house. Its beams, floorboards and staircase creaked slightly, almost imperceptibly, with a dry, uniform, almost constant cracking sound. What's wrong? Where does it hurt? It seemed to be complaining of aches in its bones, in its centuries-old joints.
Ismail Kadare
#66. I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33?
Ethel Merman
#67. Does it seem reasonable that she should play so wonderfully, and live so quietly? I suspect that one day she will be wonderful in both. The water-tight compartments in her will break down, and music and life will mingle.
E. M. Forster
#68. We are the archers with the bows that spring our children forward. Life does not go backward, nor does it tarry in yesterday. It is not a circle, but an arrow. It flies forward with the great express of Love.
David Paul Kirkpatrick
#69. What does it take, then? I love you. I've never loved any woman the way I love you.
Rachel Gibson
#70. The flower is not evil because it blooms where it does. It simply exists. As do the fish in this pool, and the bird on the cliff, and you, and I.
Emily Rodda
#71. What does it say about us that we are rarely perplexed by the good things that come our way, only the bad?
Andy Stanley
#72. We want not so much a Father but a grandfather in heaven, a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?
C.S. Lewis
#73. Betsy doesn't keep beautiful things to herself. I've learned from her that a pretty thing isn't worth much if you can't share it with anyone. It's just a thing. Only when you let others enjoy it, too, does it become beautiful
Susan Gloss
#74. Marriage has historically, as long as there's been human history, meant a man and a woman in a relationship for life. Once we change that definition, then where does it go from there?
Mike Huckabee
#75. If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him does it matter whom we displease?
Leonard Ravenhill
#76. I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.
Lionel Richie
#77. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.
Kahlil Gibran
#78. What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?
Melissa Marr
#79. If a tree falls in the woods when no one is there, does it still make a noise? If a girl dies in the woods when no one is there, does anyone care? If no one knows I am here, do I even exist?
Lisa Jahn-Clough
#80. What does it mean to fear the Lord? It means to have awe and reverence for him. The woman who fears the Lord obeys from a heart of love for the God of the universe, who is also her heavenly Father! Her childlike fear of her heavenly Father leads her to faithful and faith-filled obedience.
Kimberly Hahn
#81. Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.
Peter Davison
#82. I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second Thoughts: Or does it, tho' awkwardly, for his Word's sake: As if it were worse to break his Word, than to do amiss in keeping it.
William Penn
#83. They say there's no second act in American lives. There's something there worth exploring. Giving up an idea of yourself, examining your failure, and seeing if that failure was the system's or yours. What does it mean to not turn out to be the person you want to be?
Scott Rudin
#84. What does it mean when someone supports Manchester United or whatever it's called?"
...
"They always win. So they've started believing they deserve to.
Fredrik Backman
#85. I wake up next to a woman. I'm not sure which one. My eyes burn and my head throbs; even the pricey stuff does it. No matter how much you pay for the drink, you pay again in the morning.
Isaac Marion
#86. As man is so constituted that it is utterly impossible for him to attain happiness save by seeking the happiness of others, so does it seem to be of the nature of things that individuals and classes can obtain their own just rights only by struggling for the rights of others.
Henry George
#87. Always believe in things and people that bring you pleasure. What good does it do to throw those things out the window?
Pat Conroy
#88. Chloe doesn't move right away even though I've stepped to the side to allow her to pass. When she finally does, it's as if she's stealing my air as she goes. She's so damn beautiful.
K.K. Allen
#89. Don't pretend you want to talk to me, I know you hate me." "No, I don't." "Yes, you do, everybody does. It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me. Even robots hate me. If you just ignore me I expect I shall probably go away.
Douglas Adams
#90. There are myriad kisses in a relationship: desperate ones as involuntary as breathing, stolen ones on crowded trains, ceremonial ones at the front door, routine ones as dispassionate as licking an envelope. It takes two to kiss, but does it take two to hold the memory?
Stephanie Ye
#91. To explain is sometimes to diminish. And what does it matter if I believe one thing and you believe another? We share the same end.
Rachel Joyce
#92. When God puts us in a holy holding pattern, it can feel like forever, but God doesn't hold us back to make us suffer. He does it to help us trust Him. He sees what lies ahead and knows what we need to be ready for it.
Lee W. Merrill
#93. Independence' is a magic word, because nowhere in the Cosmos does it actually exist.
Gabriel Brunsdon
#94. That is how the atom is split. But what does it mean ? To us who think in terms of practical use it means - Nothing !
Peter Ritchie Calder
#95. How many losses does it take to stop a heart,
to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire?
Dorianne Laux
#96. That's what does it
that moment where you think you're lost, and then discover that you're not, that you've never really left. There's something that happens in that incredible tiny no-time, and that something is like the revelation of learning.
Steven Brust
#97. What does it mean if the holy water sizzles when it hits your skin? - ASKING FOR A FRIEND Once
Darynda Jones
#98. if some shank decides he's a sissy-pants and tries to turn back, I'll make sure he does it with a broken nose and smashed privates.
James Dashner
#99. What does it matter where we go? Wherever we go, won't we be serving God there? And wherever we go, won't we have Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament with us? Isn't that enough to make us happy?
Solanus Casey
#100. Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?
Robert Schumann
