Done Quotes - page 5

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking. (Wangari Maathai)
We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves. View quote
Learned Hand
The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. View quote
Edward Young
When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time. View quote
Arthur Ransome
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status. View quote
Catharine MacKinnon
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. View quote
Victor Hugo
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin. (Horace)
What's done can't be undone. View quote
William Shakespeare
If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity. View quote
Marie Curie
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. View quote
Marie Curie
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. View quote
Alan Turing
Has God forgotten everything I've done for him ? View quote
Louis XIV of France
Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you. View quote
Winston Churchill
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature. View quote
Jean Cocteau
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days. (Christopher Morley)
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour. View quote
Macaulay Culkin
I don't regret anything I've ever done. I only wish I could have done more. View quote
Mickey Rooney