Works Quotes
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If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.
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I believe in God. I believe in a higher power. And I do believe that God works in mysterious ways.
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If we don't understand how metaphor works we will misunderstand most of what we read in the Bible. No matter how carefully we parse our Hebrew and Greek sentences, no matter how precisely we use our dictionaries and trace our etymologies, no matter how exactly we define the words on the page, if we do not appreciate the way a metaphor works we will never comprehend the meaning of the text.
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Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.
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History works itself out in the living.
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When slow songs do play, people joke that you should be able to fit "the standard works" between you and your partner. The standard works is a Mormon term referring to all of the religious books we study. So when you're slow dancing, the Old Testament, New Testament, The Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price should be able to fit in the space between you and your dance partner -- or you're dancing too close.
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While my stories are experimental, they're also very traditional. I love the works of the great Russian writers like Pavel Chekhov and Lev Tolstoy, and their ability to portray our human struggles and joys.
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Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all.
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There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Don't bother.
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The works which this man leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent.
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When people tell me they're trying to meditate, I always know they don't have a format yet that works. I encourage a real meditative format that you use daily, because meditation is incremental and it only works if done every day.
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Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.
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This has been in the works for quite some time.
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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
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When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
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My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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James Lovelock is one of the great thinkers of our time. His ideas and inventions have opened up new insights into our planet and the way it works, and the story behind them will appeal to a very wide audience. I am pleased to recommend this book.
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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet.
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If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
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Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.
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All works of art should begin... at the end.
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Whatever good works ye send on before death... ye shall find with God.
