Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland – and no other.
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
I haven’t been baptised. My dad’s not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual – she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I’m proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I’m still looking for my god.
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken.
Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.
What does it say about a country that has to force its women into combat?
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
I always say that I was born in the wrong era. I should’ve been born in the ’70s or ’80s when love meant so much more than it does today. In this busy world, we forget to find each other, fall in love, and go all the way for our soul mates.
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s-heart.
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
And I don’t think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there’s another set of moral codes, but I don’t think government has a role.
There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm’s way.
There’s a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
