Is Does Quotes

#1. "Every leader makes mistakes, every leader stumbles and falls. The question with a senior level leader is, does she learn from her mistakes, regroup, and then get going again with renewed speed, conviction and confidence?"

Jack Welch

#2. Seeing what scares you for what it is does not lessen the terror. It still has the power to break your heart, over and over again.

Teri Terry

#3. The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

Phyllis McGinley

#4. The measure of a man is, does he know how to love.

Jennifer Weiner

#5. God at his best (and he always is)does not have favorite children

Eugene H. Peterson

#6. Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?

John Ruskin

#7. Weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.

John Green

#8. The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?

Franz Kline

#9. What you want to know is ... does it shorten your life? You can do
those kinds of questions in mice, but those are expensive to do and no
one's been really doing them.

Bruce Ames

#10. It's not more complicated than that," she said. "That's all there is: Does he make you better and do you make him better?" Look

Ann Patchett

#11. We all need to have dreams. The question is, does the dream control you or do you control the dream?

Robin Jones Gunn

#12. Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?

Melina Marchetta

#13. You do resemble me," the duke said. "The question is, does your blood run hot or cold?

Nicole Luiken

#14. inaccurate worldviews are the only kind there is. Does

Scott Adams

#15. The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama?

Juan Williams

#16. When you're talking about capital and financial things, which I certainly pay a lot of attention to, I base those decisions on one question that I typically ask myself, which is 'Does it help us to build a better company?'

Jim Bankoff

#17. I look for three things. Number One is does the film promote the beauty and dignity of the human person? Number Two is does this film promote the transcendent moral order? And three, does it promote natural affection?

Jason Jones

#18. The question is not, 'Do you have a problem?' The question is, 'Does the problem have you?'

Joel Osteen

#19. Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Albert Einstein

#20. Whenever you wash dishes, cook, or clean, if you make no sound, this is smartness itself. A person who enters a house and makes a lot of noise is revealing a lack of spirituality; even cats and dogs do not make unnecessary sounds, and man as he naturally is does not make any either.

Michio Kushi

#21. The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?

Abraham Maslow

#22. If there is but one God, then why must blood be shed to prove whose God he is? Does the Father not belong to all of us as we belong to him? Do you think he'll call me a righteous man when I've killed one of his sons?

P.A. Minyard

#23. That sounds almost practiced, James Carstairs. How many girls have you made swoon with that observation?"
"There is only one girl I care to make swoon," he said. "The question is, does she?"
She smiled at him. "She does.

Cassandra Clare

#24. Is every moment of our lives built into us before we're born? If it is, does it make us less responsible for the things we do, or is the responsibility built in too?

Dakota Fanning

#25. I hate the word universal, because I don't know exactly what it means. The question is, does it work for the client? Travelers was a diversified, financial conglomerate that did very well. The businesses had nothing to do with each other.

Jamie Dimon

#26. I hate you," I declared.
"You don't."
"I do."
"Okay, maybe whoever this new Ava is does but she's a bitch and I don't give a fuck if she hates me. The old Ava doesn't hate me and she's in there somewhere, I saw her five minutes ago and that's who I'm keeping safe.

Kristen Ashley

#27. True, he doesn't make you cry. Question is, does he make you laugh?

Holly Chamberlin

#28. My question about everything I do is, does it make our country stronger?

Joe Donnelly

#29. The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?

J.K. Rowling

#30. There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

Franz Kafka

#31. Tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.

David Levithan

#32. The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

Miles Davis

#33. For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters!

Robert Browning

#34. One thing that I do ask myself when I'm in the creative process is, 'Does the world need this?'

John Zorn

#35. What you're shooting at doesn't matter, the real question is: 'Does it give you joy?'

Jay Maisel

#36. One of the criticisms we get is, 'Does the world need more plastic crap?' But you have to look beyond the plastic crap, to the design, to the experience, to the empowering nature of the MakerBot and the community.

Bre Pettis

#37. My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity
a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.

James Boswell

#38. For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.

John Steinbeck

#39. 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

#40. Enlightenment does not mean that your ego is suppressed or denied. It does mean that it is deconstructed, seen through, exposed, and then reeducated and reconstructed.

Jun Po Roshi

#41. Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

Comte De Lautreamont

#42. Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#43. The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.

Confucius

#44. I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.

Becky G

#45. Genius does not seem to derive any great support from syllogisms. Its carriage is free; its manner has a touch of inspiration. We see it come, but we never see it walk.

Joseph De Maistre

#46. The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

Daisy Bates

#47. There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.

Scott Simon

#48. Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

William James

#49. 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

#50. Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.

Mahatma Gandhi

#51. Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.

Virginia Woolf

#52. Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.

Lorde

#53. Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who were born without a conscience?
V: I beg your pardon?

J.R. Ward

#54. In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians' fingerprints on the murder weapon.

Thomas Sowell

#55. 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

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

Patricia Cornwell

#57. This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.

Frederick Lenz

#58. Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.

Pat Robertson

#59. 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

#60. The business conduct of the disciples of wise men is truthful and faithful ... He does not allow himself to be made a surety or a guarantor and does not accept the power of attorney ... He lends money and is gracious. He shall not take away business from his fellow man.

Maimonides

#61. Does the thoughtful man suppose that ... the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

George Santayana

#62. Your story isn't powerful enough if all it does is lead the horse to water; it has to inspire the horse to drink, too. On social media, the only story that can achieve that goal is one told with native content.

Gary Vaynerchuk

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

Amish Tripathi

#64. It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological,

Michael Warner

#65. 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

#66. Object-oriented programming had boldly promised "to model the world." Well, the world is a scary place where bad things happen for no apparent reason, and in this narrow sense I concede that OO does model the world.

Dave Fancher

#67. The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.

Henry David Thoreau

#68. 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

#69. The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.

Katherine Mansfield

#70. The revolution will survive. It does not rely solely on oil for its survival. There is a national will, there is a national idea, a national project.

Hugo Chavez

#71. My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime stories and unloaded the dishwasher while I slaved over chapters.

Allison Pearson

#72. Spending more time with friends and family costs nothing. Nor does walking, cooking, meditating, making love, reading or eating dinner at the table instead of in front of the television. Simply resisting the urge to hurry is free.

Carl Honore

#73. The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in
the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste.

Howard Thurman

#74. Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.

Anthony De Mello

#75. The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.
To dwell is to garden.

Martin Heidegger

#76. The flesh on the nape of my neck did the crawly thing that it does so well. Some people say this is God's warning that the devil is near, but I've noticed I also experience it when someone serves me Brussels sprouts.

Dean Koontz

#77. I love you, too, James, but that doesn't give you a free pass." "No, it doesn't. Being your Dom does that, Love. I've compromised far more for you than I've ever done for anyone or anything in my life. Controlling you sexually is something I won't be bending on ...

R.K. Lilley

#78. So that all the people who say, you know, "All the media hates America." A lot of the media does hate America but this is a case of, actually, the press doing its best, I think, to do the right by national security. So good for them.

Tucker Carlson

#79. 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

#80. The Angel said, 'Let the one who does wrong, still do wrong, and the one who is filthy still be filthy; and let the one who is righteous, still practice righteousness.

Anonymous

#81. 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

#82. Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can if make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does!

Moss Hart

#83. There is always something through which things get into our minds. There is always something in mind which does not only control the mind, but also the life we live in totality!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#84. Political rhetoric alone does not build a nation unless it is backed by the power of sacrifice, toil and virtue.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#85. The truly brave man is not the man who does not feel fear but the man who overcomes it.

H.G.Wells

#86. 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

#87. It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good.

Denene Millner

#88. Again, it is self-evident that truth exists. For truth exists if anything at all is true, and if anyone denies that truth exists, he concedes that it is true that it does not exist, since if truth does not exist it is then true that it does not exist.

Thomas Aquinas

#89. 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

#90. One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.

J.I. Packer

#91. No one actually saw it land, which raised the interesting philosophical point: When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, but there is no one to hear it, does it - philosophically speaking - make a noise?

Terry Pratchett

#92. 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

#93. When a filmmaker does not make films, it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds himself wandering in a larger jail. The main question is: why should it be a crime to make a movie? A finished film, well, it can get banned but not the director.

Jafar Panahi

#94. Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee.

James Hervey

#95. [L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch ...

Shirley Jackson

#96. I verily believe that the kingdom of God advances more on spoken words than it does on essays written and read; on words, that is, in which the present feeling and thought of the teaching mind break into natural and forceful expression.

Richard Salter Storrs

#97. Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Oscar Wilde

#98. In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.

Lee Konitz

#99. Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

Thornton Wilder

#100. Life does not measure up to performing ... Performing is perfect.

Joan Rivers