Done Quotes - Page 83

I'd be the first to agree that capitalism bestows its blessings unevenly. But that wouldn't persuade me to think it was a good idea to do away with those blessings in their entirety. That said, there is lots of work to be done to make capitalism work better, and to broaden its blessings far more widely not only in America, but all over the globe.

I've actually been given a great gift. When I walk into an audition with a director, I'm carrying no baggage. They haven't seen me in anything, even though I've done nine films.

I like to organize. I have an opinion. I like to get stuff done.

If you do the best work you can, the reward is ultimately your self-satisfaction - the sense that you have done the best you can. And then there's that piece of how others respond.

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, Right. Now I understand how this is done.

When you're doing a movie, you're in a vacuum, just going, "Well, that's done. Let's see what happens."

I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is a basic esthetic limitation on what can be done with cities: a city cannot be a work of art.

Getting sober was the single bravest thing I've ever done and will ever do in my life.

Only when we have done all we knew to do can we wait by faith for God to do what only He can do.

Stretch targets energize. We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible; and even when we don't quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done.

You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.

I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.

Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal]

Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

I was feeling that I was the in the dead-end circuit from 1980 to 1983, and I didn't know what else to do. I remember doing a show in some college town, in a tiny club, and afterward some fans came back. I thought I had done good gig and they were going to tell me that.

David Ray Griffin has done admirable and painstaking research in reviewing the mysteries surrounding the 9/11 attacks. It is the most persuasive argument I have seen for further investigation [into] that historic and troubling event.

What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.

Thou wilt lament Hereafter, when the evil shall be done And shall admit no cure.

A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure that stands without incident often conceals whatever lessons or caveats it might hold for the next generation of engineers.

From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life itself, ate little, slept little, owned little or nothing. They had no illusions about duty, or the perpetuation of their kith and kin, or the preservation of the State. They were interested in truth and in truth alone. They recognized only one kind of activity - creation.

When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.

The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.

To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.