Done Quotes - Page 151

What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?

I do hope having done what I did, and America having accepted me the way they did, opens the door for more global talent, which should have representation in global entertainment.

He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.

I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much written about me when I have done so little to paint a picture of myself.

On my own account I certainly wouldn't have become the director of a couture house. I didn't have sufficient admiration for fashion as such to have done so.

I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books.

I think a lot of the work I've done and a lot of the work I'm going to do in the future still ties to 9/11 and the fallout from it.

I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's done.

Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done."

Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.

I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.

The ability and intelligence is remarkable...Prince was able to walk the length of the furrow, between the growing potatoes, and when he was done you might never guess that he passed that way, so sure and careful was every footfall.

Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.

I am less attracted to guesses about what cannot be done, than about making progress on a problem.

In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.

When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.

The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.

Saying "now it's done" . It's horrible. Sometimes I force myself to do it or I know I will turn crazy.

The spread of personal ownership is in harmony with the deepest instincts of the British people. Few changes have done more to create one nation.

Remember, the word "discrimination" isn't always pejorative. When an employer discriminates because an older worker lacks certain kinds of skills that are important in the market today, then it's almost a legitimate form of discrimination because the employer is just trying to figure out who can actually get the job done.

She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.

We may not have done anything but when we are relaxed, when we are peaceful, when we are able to smile and not to be violent in the way we look at the system, at that moment there is a change already in the world.