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There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done.

That which is hard to do is best done bitterly.

Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate variability over multi-decade periods and with occasional significant variability over the short term.

To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved.

There's so many simple things that can be done to change our carbon footprint, and to reduce our carbon footprint.

Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important thing to get done right now and if you're not doing it, you're not making progress at the fastest possible rate.

Goodwin has done the seemingly impossible-he has made economics comprehensible and funny.

I'm a combat diver, I've never done something like this.

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.

I need an hour alone before dinner, with a drink, to go over what I've done that day. I can't do it late in the afternoon because I'm too close to it. Also, the drink helps. It removes me from the pages.

I'm not a natural runner. I'm friends with Ellie Goulding, and she'll be like, 'I've just done a 10K run' and I'm like: 'Why would you do that? How do you just do that?' But I will do that. I will do it.

The fact is that in England so many of our politicians are career politicians - they've always been politicians since they left their education. And in the old days of course politicians used to be fish mongers or doctors or whatever. They'd lived life. These days, power seems to go to the hands of people that that's all they've done. And I'm not sure that's a good thing, because it does remove them from the realities of life.

I'm not always the favourite to win, but I still enjoy it. The main thing is that I've planned for it and even if the result isn't great, I know I've done the best I can do. It's being true to, and believing in, yourself.

I wouldn't have done nudity, no. That's not something that I feel particularly comfortable with.

I've been involved in lots of comic book stuff; I've done numerous films based on comic books and TV shows.

I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.

Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done.

The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.

When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored in to the pump price - among them congestion, pollution, and increased risk of accidents.

Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of your occupations.

The kids know me from 'Babe,' but usually it is 'L.A. Confidential' that people remember, which was the second film I did. I have worked with some really good people and the films that I've done for the most part have been good.

Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.

I've done a number of films that no one has ever seen, and that's probably a good thing.

I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know the spiritual wasteland to which that road leads . . . whoever debases others is debasing himself.