Done Quotes - page 3

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. (Emily Brontë)
It only seems impossible until it's done.
Nelson Mandela
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.
Giacomo Casanova
But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.
Mikhail Bulgakov
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.
Gerald Ford
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition.
Samuel Pepys
The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
Craig Raine
I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
Zachary Taylor
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear. (James Thurber)
Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.
Richard Francis Burton
Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.
George Soros
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
Henry David Thoreau
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolò Machiavelli
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
George Carlin
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sick-room.
Robert Louis Stevenson
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle
Music and silence... combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
Marcel Marceau
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins. (Antoni Tàpies)
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.
Henry Miller
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
Carl Sandburg
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou
You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.
John le Carré