Done Quotes - Page 54

I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I also want it done well.

You need to get one thing done well, or else you don't have permission to do anything else.

Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness....Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?

Nothing can be done well at a speed of forty miles a day. The multitude of mixed, novel impressions rapidly piled on one another make only a dreamy, bewildering, swirling blur, most of which is unrememberable.

Is there a God? Yeah, but there's not just one God. There's a whole lot of gods, because one God couldn't have possibly made so many mistakes all by Himself. This had to be done by committee.

When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.

We built a jet airplane to get in and out of a 5,000-ft field. No one believed it could be done.

No one else 'makes us angry.' We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude to a test.

What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down

Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you.

The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly can't be done without the people. The poet and the people get on generally very badly, and yet they need each other. The poet knows it sooner than the people do. The people usually know it after the poet is dead; but that's all right. The point is to get your work done, and your work is to change the world.

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done.

A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done.

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made

Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.

Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?

Everything that I've ever done is not really based on reality, it's the caricature of reality, which is what's really exciting.

The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.

In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done.

Men put all kinds of expectations on you. They want you to scream 'You're the best' while swearing you've never done this with anyone before.

Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow.