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At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.

They say if somebody has done something you want to do, all you need to do is go out and copy them.

The Israelis haven't done anything to the Palestinians. They treated them with flowers and roses.

Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.

‎All my stupid little thoughts beget stupid little thoughts, rampantly speculating every possible outcome of every possible situation until they're all done to death and none of them could ever be true.

I feel like success to me is about feeling like I have done something in storytelling, where I've gotten close to articulating something intangible that I'm feeling, and I think I get closer every time, but I don't know that I've done that yet.

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.

In today's world, you would call my father mostly unaccessible. I'm not sure that isn't true of most fathers at that time. He went through the Depression. I don't know what that would have done to my psyche.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

I assure you that some of the most awesome things God has ever done for me have come out of the most awful things I’d done to myself.

But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear. It is fear that holds men back - fear lest their cherished beliefs should prove delusions, fear lest the institutions by which they live should prove harmful, fear lest they themselves should prove less worthy of respect than they have supposed themselves to be.

The way the public sees it is this. If we don't leave, we are idiots. If we do leave but don't succeed in our mission, we are incompetent. But if we do succeed, it's because it was easy and anyone could have done it.

It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice - with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace.

It's an utter, utter necessity to renounce war forever. And nothing new can be built until this is done.

There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with its colonial system. It shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.

To keep Nigeria ONE, is a task that must be DONE.

Every year I make a plan. I do it. It will be done.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only, that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

What's done can't be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

I am content that the work that I've done is wonderful.

Tell me what you want, and then I'll put in what I want... after I'm done with my codependent providing for you, I'll get a little for me too.