Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

Does no one think to warn people before they meet me?" Vlad muttered, shooting an irritable look at Mencheres.

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

What does the good ship bear so well? The cocoa-nut with its stony shell, And the milky sap of its inner cell.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

We actually talked about Adam Sandler during the creation of 'Trolls,' because he does know how to time jokes.

While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.

Bill Maher does something amazing in Religulous. He makes Michael Moore look incredibly likable in comparison.

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.

God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.

My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

Gymnastics is not only a good thing to live by, but it is important to understand how it does help you in life.

A person does not show his actions to the creation except due to his ignorance of the Greatness of the Creator.

If a people have no word for something, either it does not matter to them or it matters too much to talk about.

He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.

Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.

...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.

Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.

Does it make any sense at all that the chair of a national party would want fewer voters to see our candidates?

The world will die, but I shall not die.If God dies, then I will die;If he does not die, then why should I die?

The picture of fallen man as given in Scripture is that he knows God but does not want to recognize Him as God.

I think that two-dimensional film will always be here to stay because it always has its place, but 3D does too.

A trustee has a responsibility to guard the assets of others with a higher degree of care than he does his own.

In reality, psychiatric diagnosing is a kind of spiritual profiling that can destroy lives and frequently does.

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul

It does not matter where you come from, if you walk toward the truth you will reach it, whatever path you take.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

...pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.

When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.

When a person does not know the doctrines of the Christian faith, he can easily be captured by false religions.

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

I think actors really like to know what does a casting agent really think or what does a composer really think.

Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.

"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."

One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.

There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.

Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.

The child of God works not for life, but from life; he does not work to be saved, but works because he is saved

Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?

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