Works Quotes - page 9

My girl works at Hooters, in the kitchen. (Mitch Hedberg)
What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes. View quote
Robert Browning
You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don't give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life's problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works. View quote
Yanni
One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
I saw full surely that ere God made us He loved us; which love was never slacked, nor ever shall be. And in this love He hath done all His works; and in this love He hath made all things profitable to us; and in this love our life is everlasting. In our making we had beginning; but the love wherein He made us was in Him from without beginning: in which love we have our beginning. And all this shall we see in God, without end. View quote
Julian of Norwich
A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in. View quote
Anita Brookner
The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians. View quote
Shirley Chisholm
Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was "the software, not the hardware”, increasingly philosophers have come to recognize that understanding how the brain works is essential to understanding the mind. View quote
Patricia Churchland
Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers - which is why almost no technology ever works. View quote
John Cleese
The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as men and that sex is a dark, dangerous force of nature. But of course the feminist establishment, stuck in its battered-woman blinders, learned nothing as usual from this lurid refutation of its normal views. Classic art works like Bizet's Carmen tell us more about the irrationality of love, jealousy and revenge than do all the pat formulas of the counseling industry. (Camille Paglia)
Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on them. All literary and artistic works, no matter how great, that document the ambivalence of female sexuality they are trained to dismiss as "misogynous.” In other words, their minds are being programmed to secede from their bodies ... there is a huge gap between feminist rhetoric and women's actual sex lives, where feminism is of little help except with a certain stratum of deferential, malleable, white middle-class men. View quote
Camille Paglia
All scientists must communicate their work, for what is the point of learning new things about how the world works if you don't tell anyone about them? View quote
Jim Al-Khalili
The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive. View quote
Eudora Welty
Memory works like a Wikipedia page: You can go in there and change it, but so can other people. View quote
Elizabeth Loftus
Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
When you have committed an action that you cannot bear to think about, that causes you to writhe in retrospect, do not seek to evade the memory: make yourself relive it, confront it repeatedly over and over, till finally, you will discover, through sheer repetition it loses its power to pain you. It works, I guarantee you, this sure-fire guilt-eradicator, like a homeopathic medicine - like in small doses applied to like. It works, but I am not sure that it is a good thing. View quote
Mary McCarthy
That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It recreates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we're grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you'd hoped was healed. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature. View quote
Ann Druyan
People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's no good saying you're going to have children for 15 years and then you're going to retire and have hobbies, because you've got 40 more years to go after 60 and you're in good health until 90 or something. (Theodore Zeldin)
Great! I've written something stupid, but I haven't signed a contract with anyone to produce solely wise and perfect works. I gave vent to my stupidity... and here I am, reborn. View quote
Witold Gombrowicz
God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the church of God in the world is the existence of the Spirit of God in its midst, and the works of the Spirit of God are the true evidences of Christianity. They say miracles are withdrawn, but the Holy Spirit is the standing miracle of the church of God to-day. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair. View quote
Charles Spurgeon