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[They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

You cannot stay the shell in its flight; after it has left the mortar, it goes on to its mark, and there explodes, dealing destruction all around. Just as little can you stay the consequences of a sin after it has been committed. You may repent of it, you may even be forgiven for it, but still it goes on its deadly and desolating way. It has passed entirely beyond your reach; once done, it cannot be undone.

Work done by human beings for human beings.

And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.

My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.

Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.

Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.

Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What's the point of being realistic? I'm going to do it. It's done. It's already done. The second I decide it's done, it's already done.

Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise "what they would do if they got in." But the Republicans have to promise "what they would do" and then explain why they haven't already "done it".

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along.

This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.

Accept the fact that you'll never get it all done, and begin to live more fully in the only moment you have ... Now.

Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon.

On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

. . . . [P]ersons who love very much, easily take offense at trifles. No doubt your excessive affection for me makes you a little diffident about mine. But there is no harm done; I hope you will soon be over this slight jealousy and be convinced that nothing can change the genuine affection Our Lord has given me for you

I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.

It's still pretty surreal. I wake up every day and just pinch myself and kind of think about how far I've come and all the stuff I have done.

I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.

Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny.