Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.

The thing about God, she thought, is that He usually does help, but not until you've made an effort on your own.

It really does no good to ask questions that reflect opposition to the will of God. Rather ask, What am I to do?

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

Being a King sort of sucks," I said. Quentin wrinkled his nose, "So does your outfit." "Blood is in this season.

Kant does not regard freedom as an item of faith because it is too basic to our agency to be related to any end.

A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

My belief is that you should take stills of what doesn't seem to move, and take movies or videos of [what] does.

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something

The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Life does throw some hard stuff at you as you get older, much harder. But you are more able to deal with things.

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.

We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech.

I love Jill Scott! I love everything she puts on, how she does her hair; everything about Jill Scott is amazing!

It does not matter what has been made of us; what matters is what we ourselves make of what has been made of us.

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things.

It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics.

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

The fact there is no route-map to utopia does not mean that there are no routes to more accessible destinations.

God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!

The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus.

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.

Does Heaven ever speak? The four seasons come and go, and all creatures thrive and grow. Does Heaven ever speak!

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?

In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.

The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.

Bridget Jones' Baby, at heart is about the gap between how you expect life to turn out and how it actually does.

The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.

If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.

Solitude offers a lot that being coupled or being in a group does not. It helps us learn what we are capable of.

As you seek new opportunity, keep in mind that the sun does not usually reappear on the horizon where last seen.

Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.

I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

Where lies our salvation? You asked. We do not need any salvation. Does not our end lie on this beginning shore?

I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

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