Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

Nicholas Sparks

Does trust have to be earned. Or is it simply a matter of faith?

Nawal El Saadawi

Who said to kill does not require gentleness?

Neal A. Maxwell

Our God does not indulge us, but He is merciful toward our weaknesses as He strives to tutor us.

Muhammad Iqbal

It is absolutely certain that God does exist.

Muhammad Iqbal

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

Mikhail Bakunin

Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else...

Marian Wright Edelman

History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.

Jack O'Neill

Does it say 'Colonel' anywhere on my uniform?

Ivan Turgenev

That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.

Isak Dinesen

One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.

Irrfan Khan

Language does not make one an elite.

Irvin D. Yalom

Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?

Imogen Cunningham

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

Imtiaz Ali

'Love Aaj Kal' is not really a road movie, but it does involve some travel.

Gloria Vanderbilt

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

Gloria Steinem

Liberation does not come from outside.

Gloria Steinem

Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.

Harry Markowitz

We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing.

J. P. Morgan

Don't talk to me about appealing to the public. I am done with the public, for the present anyway. The public reads the headlines and that is all. The story itself is fair and shows the facts. That would be all right if the public read the facts. But it does not. It reads the headlines and listens to the demagogues and that's the stuff public opinion is made of.

J. K. Rowling

Fame is a fickle friend, Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that.

J. K. Rowling

What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll meet it when it does.

J. K. Rowling

Celebrity is as celebrity does.

J. K. Rowling

Next time there’s a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not as a last resort!

J. K. Rowling

I knew I could do it all this time,” said Harry, “Because I'd already done it... does that make sense?

H. G. Wells

He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.

Greg Lake

Traveling is a bit of a push sometimes. When you're doing a lot of miles and you're doing a lot of shows, it does get wearing.

J. William Fulbright

A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.

Paul Farmer

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

Masanobu Fukuoka

A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being.