Done Quotes - page 17

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others. (William Greider)
I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success. View quote
Robert Falcon Scott
Do not even think of doing what ought not to be done. View quote
Pythagoras
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect. View quote
José Martí
Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me? View quote
Groucho Marx
There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned. View quote
Alec Guinness
Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of ‘systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, syst-susceptible sister,' which is easier done than said. View quote
Daniel Handler
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. View quote
Daniel Webster
America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind. View quote
Daniel Webster
If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble. View quote
Charles Sumner
The secret of getting things done is to act! (Dante Alighieri)
Lord Peter Wimsey: I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
He had no wish to obliterate anything he had written, but he would dearly have liked to revise it, envying painters, who are allowed to return to the same theme time and time again, clarifying and enriching until they have done all they can with it. A novelist is condemned to provide a succession of novelties, new names for characters, new incidents for his plots, new scenery; but, Mr Pinfold maintained, most men harbour the germs of one or two books only; all else is professional trickery of which the most daemonic of the masters - Dickens and Balzac even - were flagrantly guilty. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. View quote
John Bunyan
What are the needs of the world? What can I do that won't be done if I don't do it? View quote
Bill Clinton
When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril. View quote
Harry S. Truman
I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. View quote
John Adams
Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good. View quote
John Adams
Only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller. View quote
Silvio Berlusconi
David Ray Griffin has done admirable and painstaking research in reviewing the mysteries surrounding the 9/11 attacks. It is the most persuasive argument I have seen for further investigation [into] that historic and troubling event. View quote
Howard Zinn
I'd like to imagine I won't end up in Hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head. (Dave Grohl)
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives. View quote
Martha Gellhorn
There's nothing you can do that can't be done, Nothing you can sing that can't be sung, Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game, It's easy... All you need is love. View quote
John Lennon
Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who have touched them in any way. View quote
William Thomson
We live of novelty in science. So when you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that it cannot be done, that it's not interesting and so on. View quote
Heinrich Rohrer