Done Quotes - page 27

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it. (Kazuo Ishiguro)

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

James Baldwin

We confess our faults, to make amends by our sincerity for the harm they have done us in the opinion of others.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Self-mastery is attained when the imagination has been directed and trained to conform with our desires-for although, in one sense, the imagination is inclined in the subconscious, yet it dominates the latter, and therefore, if we know how to guide it, our subconscious self will take charge of our material being and do its work just as we wish it to be done; or, in other words, exactly in conformity with our conscious suggestions.

Émile Coué

In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.

Edith Wharton

It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country.

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding that equal rights be accorded to them as to white workmen, but somehow conveying the idea that they are to be petted and coddled and given special consideration and special privilege. Of course that can't be done.

Samuel Gompers

All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Peter Pan is perhaps the most important thing, to me, that I have ever done in theater.

Mary Martin

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today. (Maxwell Maltz)

To say that I would have done otherwise had I wanted to is simply to say that I would have lived in a different universe had I been in a different universe.

Sam Harris

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.

Leopold Stokowski

Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

Joss Whedon

You ask yourself "What is love? Am I in love?", when what you should be asking is, "What is not love?", ma petite. What is it that this man does for you that is not done out of love?

Laurell K. Hamilton

Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.

Dr. Seuss

But, when the goddess' work is done, The woman's still remains.

Bret Harte

I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone.

Edwin Muir

When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

Oscar Wilde

The kingdom of God which is within us consists in our willing whatever God wills, always, in every thing, and without reservation; and thus His kingdom comes; for His will is then done as it is in heaven, since we will nothing but what is dictated by His sovereign pleasure.

François Fénelon

I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read...I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from. (Don DeLillo)

You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.

Joe Strummer

I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying under-informed things. The change is that if you're in power and you say something under-informed, there are people out there with a voice who will take you to task for having done so.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.

Clifford Geertz

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