Done Quotes - Page 159

Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought.

Karma is not a receipt of a physical experience, because of what someone has done.

I haven't done anything yet, but I want to be the best in the world.

Erich Mendelsohn's drawings are expressive and beautiful. If he'd had the computers we have now, everything I've done he would have done before me. I would have had to figure out something else.

You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved.

In a recession, you must be able to call into question everything you've done before.

So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done. [Fr., Afin que ne semblons es Athenians, qui ne consultoient jamais sinon apres le cas faict.]

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability.

Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion.

Thy will be done in earth as it is in Heaven.

Everything that happens with me gets made out to be a fiasco, but I have every right to do everything I've ever done. I stand by everything I've ever said, apologies included.

In my early days, I copied the great French chefs, like most chefs do. Copying is not bad. Copying and not recognizing that you are copying is bad. For me, when I go to a restaurant and am served a dish influenced by something we created at elBulli, if it's well done, it makes me extremely happy.

Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it.

All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.

I want to avoid becoming too styled, too ‘done’ and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else. They start out with something individual about them, but it gets lost.

I've learned that I work best when I'm entirely naked. The recording process was done that way.

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

I've always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That's lame. It's already been done, so why do it again?

There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone.

I'm still alive, and I don't lose sleep because I have done what I feel I needed to do, it was the right thing to do and I am not going to be afraid.

As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing something or somebody.