Top 250 Does Quotes

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It’s a gift you give yourself.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?

Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.

Our self-respect does not have a price tag.

Any time scientists disagree, it’s because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I’m right, or you’re right, or we’re both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.

The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.

Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.

Ratings don’t last. Good journalism does.

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Anyone who’s a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: ‘Is it good? Does it give pleasure?’

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

The world is a complicated place, and there’s a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

One may fall in love anytime and with anyone. One does not decide that based on caste, religion or gender.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there’s something good about feeling both.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law. And the key there is in terms of civil disobedience. You have to make sure that what you’re risking, what you’re bringing onto yourself, does not serve as a detriment to anyone else. It doesn’t hurt anybody else.

I don’t care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.

Sin does not stop God’s grace from flowing, but God’s grace will stop sin.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.

A mouse does not rely on just one hole.

At Uber, we say, ‘Always be hustling.’ Even if you are an introvert and you haven’t got hustle in you, you better get a co-founder who does. And if you haven’t got enough hustle to find a co-founder who’s got hustle, it’s going to be tough. You’ve got to have a little hustle in you.

You win battles by knowing the enemy’s timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

I work hard, like I’m sure everyone else does, and I’m very honest with the work I do.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It’s not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline – and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

A zebra does not change its spots.

Why should men be constrained by antiquated stereotypes of masculinity? What does it even mean to ‘Be a Real Man’ anymore? Shouldn’t we all be celebrating a wide range of definitions of manhood?

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all.