Works Quotes
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If one would praise the Almighty, one must then revel in His works, and take them whole, adore their very grossness, savor the oozing quiddity of that slime of which He seems to be inordinately fond. Love is not nice. God's love assuredly is not; and human love, its copy, must not presume to be so.
Eric Frank Russell -
According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhi's, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.
Jimmy Carter
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It's funny how human nature works. You get a big guy back, and suddenly you think that the goals are just going to come.
Bob Hartley -
When you plan something, it never works.
Juan Pablo Montoya -
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
Henry Ward Beecher -
History works itself out in the living.
Louise Erdrich -
All works of art should begin... at the end.
Edgar Allan Poe
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This has been in the works for quite some time.
Alice Stewart -
In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.
Antonio Gates -
Works like 'Brave New World' and 'The Handmaiden's Tale' develop their atmosphere from a movement or a revolution, as if the world has ended and has come out to this other side. When I wrote 'The Bad Batch,' I thought that the world outside the gates that confine the 'bad' characters is simply our world today.
Ana Lily Amirpour -
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.
Thomas Aquinas -
I believe in God. I believe in a higher power. And I do believe that God works in mysterious ways.
Davone Bess -
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding style or figure or theme, obviously they're hard to digest.
Elliott Colla -
After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times and then one night it'll flop. And that's when I really take a hard look at myself and say: 'Well, that crowd is obviously wrong. That crowd has absolutely no idea what it's talking about.
Aziz Ansari -
If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.
Paul Buchheit -
Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.
Euripides -
'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.
Brian Koppelman -
Love's the little leaven that works the whole world glad.
Anne Reeve Aldrich
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You're sitting with some guys, and you're playing and you go, "Ooh, yeah!" That feeling is worth more than anything. There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you. You're elevated because you're with a bunch of guys that want to do the same thing as you. And when it works, baby, you've got wings. You know you've been somewhere most people will never get; you've been to a special place.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
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.
Amanda McKittrick Ros -
My works are a direct response to the typical space opera. I grew tired of always reading about how the people with power, with agency, get involved in huge sweeping arcs of stories. I wanted stories that dealt with real people, people I could relate to.
Nathan Lowell -
Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.
James Cook