Does What Quotes

#1. Something has worked in the past, until - well, it unexpectedly no longer does, and what we have learned from the past turns out to be at best irrelevant or false, at worst viciously misleading.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. The next question is how? How does news find us?
What you need is a certain critical literacy about the fact that you are almost always subject to an algorithm. The most powerful thing in your world now is an algorithm about which you know nothing about.

Kelly McBride

#3. Firestar: Okay, Jayfeather, what does mallow look like?
Jayfeather: I don't know, do I? I've never seen it.

Erin Hunter

#4. But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want,

Madeleine L'Engle

#5. What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.

Ezra Taft Benson

#6. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee ...

Howard Zinn

#7. Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

Margaret Atwood

#8. What does the breathtaking view of the ocean mean without you?

Craig Thompson

#9. I wanted to do London Boulevard because I saw the potential of a story about two people who need each other desperately, who love at first sight, as one does, and above all a story in which no one is what they appear to be.

William Monahan

#10. The truth is none of us always does what's right or fair.

Patricia Cornwell

#11. When a vacuum forms, someting has to come along to fill it. Because that's what everybody does.

Haruki Murakami

#12. I think one of the things the writers' festival does that is very good is that it brings writers from around the world and around the country and locally and puts them all in the one spot together, and that's what a lot of the world's great writers' festivals do.

Nick Earls

#13. What kind of judgment does one apply, then, to a work of art? I believe that there are four basic standards: (1) technical excellence, (2) validity, (3) intellectual content, the world view which comes through and (4) the integration of content and vehicle.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#14. I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours.

Esther Dalseno

#15. The key question isn't 'What is Evil?' The key question is 'When does the Good become Evil?

Amish Tripathi

#16. There's no direction I can go in. If I met someone else, what meaning would there be left? If the pain goes, does that mean I never loved her? How can I get over it? I can't, I mustn't. But what else am I going to do?

Marie Phillips

#17. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out - but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity. [ 1 John 2:17 MSG

Max Lucado

#18. If we don't have that, what do we have to live for? Does it matter if it's a lie if it keeps us alive?

Beth Revis

#19. I am quite an admirer of Fidel [Castro]. For me, Fidel is the first and the best man in solidarity with the peoples of the world. Fidel shares not just what he does not need, but every little thing he has. That is called solidarity.

Evo Morales

#20. What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it ... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.

Robert A. Heinlein

#21. What does spirituality, money and happiness have in common? Everything.

Robin Sacredfire

#22. There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#23. Everyone know of him. Some people hate him because they think he's weird and he gets into fights and gets kicked out of school and does what he wants. Some people worship him because he's weird and he gets into fights and gets kicked out of school and does what he wants.

Jennifer Niven

#24. He that willeth to do shall know what he ought to do. He that doeth the thing he does know will know more. And that more done will open the door yet wider into all the fragrance of a strongly obedient life, and into a clear and clearing understanding of the Lord Jesus Himself.

S.D. Gordon

#25. The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.

Martin Luther

#26. I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul.

James Joyce

#27. I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.

Tracey Ullman

#28. We have disagreements as to what race does and ought to mean, but we have a remarkable consensus on what it is, without any ability to define it technically.

Barbara Katz Rothman

#29. An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain," one of the survivors wrote. "The equality of all men".

Sebastian Junger

#30. Why does everyone worship them? I mean, they're beautiful but ... " I shrugged. "Lots of people in this world are beautiful."
"They're popular because they're cheerleaders," he said.
I rolled my eyes. "What is it with this town and cheerleaders?

Sarra Cannon

#31. If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?

Carl Sagan

#32. Space does for comics what time does for film!

Scott McCloud

#33. If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.

Debasish Mridha

#34. I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

James A. Michener

#35. What does 'hmm' have to do with anything? Could you ever use more than five words? All this grunting and minced words make you come across - primal."

His smile tipped higher. "Primal."

"You're impossible."

"Me Jev, you Nora.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#36. It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

John Steinbeck

#37. If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe to the crusty notion that sooner or later earnings make or break an investment in equities. What the stock price does today, tomorrow, or next week is only a distraction.

Peter Lynch

#38. If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Oprah Winfrey

#39. CBS News on Tuesday had Bob Kerrey in a Vietnam scandal, Senator Bob Torricelli in a donor scandal and Arnold Schwarzenegger in a sex scandal. This confirms what we always knew. Bill Clinton does the work of three men.

Argus Hamilton

#40. Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.

Alfred North Whitehead

#41. See, what I don't like listening to is when writers go, 'And then the person cries.' 'Or the person does this.' It's there, but it's not the Bible. I wait and see what happens to me on the day.

Kim Coates

#42. I met Roy's father once ... And I think that Roy's relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy does. But at the end of the day, he's trying to prove himself to a father he'll never really please.

Jim Lampley

#43. Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Robin G. Collingwood

#44. It's not about what the equipment does, it's about what you can do through that equipment. That's where the soul is.

Richie Hawtin

#45. If God is real, why does he align perfectly with our views? We should expect God to challenge us on what we think is right somewhere

Timothy Keller

#46. Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.

Helen McCrory

#47. I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Victor Hugo

#48. For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

Saint Augustine

#49. What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they were bummed out and listened to country songs is because it made them feel better in the long run.

Steve Earle

#50. What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

Czeslaw Milosz

#51. It takes almost as much imagination to justify what you write as it does to write it.

Stephen Sondheim

#52. I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.

A.R. Rahman

#53. Commander: What's that?
Foaly: It's a finger, what does look like?

Eoin Colfer

#54. At what point does the normal suddenly become the abnormal? he

Henning Mankell

#55. Politics does not concern itself who should rule us. It is about what kind of rule people should have.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#56. An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.

James R. Thompson

#57. What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

Marion Barry

#58. It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things, God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.

Watchman Nee

#59. Take your everyday, ordinary life- your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life-and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for Him." (The Message)

Cody Bobay

#60. You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Norman Douglas

#61. Divine does not tempt us to see what's in our hearts, it tempts us so we could see what's in our hearts.

Aleksandra Ninkovic

#62. How can one find the first moment of love? When,in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue?

Susan Abulhawa

#63. What works in one medium does not necessarily always work in the other.

Marc E. Platt

#64. What time do you need to be at work tomorrow, Hon?' Lexi asks.
Well, Ruby's back, so nine o'clock.'
What does Ruby being back have to do with anything?'
She's the human stopwatch, remember? Marriage doesn't change everything.

Erynn Mangum

#65. And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.

Carl Jung

#66. Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want.

Frank Gehry

#67. Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don't agree with, like bombing.

Noam Chomsky

#68. Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes we make mistakes and bad judgments and kind of back the wrong regimes and things, but by and large what America does is really good.

Bill Bryson

#69. Mr Zhu says what makes him a diaosi is that he is the son of factory workers. He is not fu er dai - second-generation rich - or guan er dai - the son of powerful government officials (it does not escape a diaosi's notice that those two categories often overlap).

Anonymous

#70. What is it you want your audience to see? Who is your audience? What does surface signify? Does it carry meaning? Do you fully understand and know what you are doing? WHY are you using encaustic?

Kay WalkingStick

#71. Evangelistic preaching is what Daddy does, I never thought I would.

Franklin Graham

#72. You will live as you live anywhere. With difficulty, and grief. Yes, you are dead. And I and my family and everyone, always, forever. All dead, like stones. But what does it matter? You still have to go to work in the morning. You still have to live.

Catherynne M Valente

#73. What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.

Mary E. Pearson

#74. Robert De Niro's sort of like a surfer: he doesn't really force anything. So if he catches the wave, or something spills out - to watch a guy be a force at what he does. He has a good worth ethic.

Paul Dano

#75. Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.

Susie Orbach

#76. When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

L.M. Montgomery

#77. Who hears the wishes and goodbyes? The speaker does ... And you hope that what you say from the heart has power. Power to protect, power to reach the ears of the dead. A spoken thing or a whished-hard thing takes a shape within the heart, man. Takes shape. Becomes real.

Adrian Phoenix

#78. What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

William Godwin

#79. How does it happen? At what point is she born, the baffled, wounded adult of tomorrow? Is eleven what we react to for the rest of our lives?

Kyo Maclear

#80. Generally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much.

John Hodgman

#81. Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#82. A hundred different scenarios running through my head. How sick does that make me? A broken woman fantasising about how to kill another human being. What has he done to me?

Dawn A. Keane

#83. He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.

Khalil Gibran

#84. In this method, you don't ask, What do I want from life? You ask a different set of questions: What does life want from me? What are my circumstances calling me to do? In this scheme of things we don't create our lives; we are summoned by life.

David Brooks

#85. Why does my action strike them as so horrible? Is it because it was a crime? What is meant by crime? My conscience is at rest. Of course, it was a legal crime, of course, the letter of the law was broken and blood was shed. Well, punish me for the letter of the law ... and that's enough.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#86. Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and blue white. Black sunflowers against a white sky - what a travesty!

Walter J. Phillips

#87. The question is, when does the therapeutic community end and the reality kick back in Then, what do you do with them

James Johnson

#88. I prefer to doubt everything. Such a disposition does not preclude a resolute character. On the contrary, as far as I am concerned, I always advance more boldly when I don't know what is waiting me for me. After all, nothing worse than death can happen-and death you can't escape!

Mikhail Lermontov

#89. You know how we sometimes sigh, "Well, that was a waste of time."? Or we snap at somebody: "You're wasting my time!" What does that even mean in the age of texts and tweets, TV and video games?

Ron Brackin

#90. But what does the word insist mean after a whole life of love and understanding? I have never asked anything for myself that I did not also wish for him.

Simone De Beauvoir

#91. I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.

Adam DeVine

#92. Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

Tom G. Palmer

#93. A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

Barack Obama

#94. Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

Carew Papritz

#95. The ordinary you, the you that has to go to work every morning, the you that has to run a household, pay bills, do all of those things
that you is somehow changed into an exciting, artistic, fully alive you. That's what Paris does.

Alexander McCall Smith

#96. God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

J.G. Holland

#97. You don't know yet what money is. Money is power, when you have lived as long as I have. I know, I know. If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say? Put money in thy purse.

James Joyce

#98. I've always respected what Wayne does, and Wayne, to me is definitely one of the greatest in the game right now.

Eminem

#99. But, it has something to do with having belief in a human future and what that human future is. What is the future of humanity? How does this whole experiment not self-destruct with the environment and everything else going on?

Brit Marling

#100. This is known, and what is not known does not undermine it. This is the scientific way. To be open about the limits of one's knowledge increases public confidence in what one says is known.

Salman Rushdie