Works Quotes
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Most works are most beautiful without ornament.
Walt Whitman -
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
Sarah Fielding
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Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.
Aristotle -
While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.
George Bernard Shaw -
If men of genius only knew what love their works inspire!
Hector Berlioz -
The kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power, that is, in works and practice. God loves the 'doers of the word' in faith and love, and not the 'mere hearers,' who, like parrots, have learned to utter certain expressions with readiness.
Martin Luther -
Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. 'By their fruits ye shall know them.'
Henry Ward Beecher -
Our works do not generate righteousness, rather our righteousness in Christ generates works.
Martin Luther
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The more purely God's word is preached, the more deeply it pierces and the more kindly it works.
William Gouge -
In general, there is no way to explain what an individual photon does, and we have good reasons to believe that this is not just our ignorance, but that this fundamental role of probability is a basic feature of how the universe works.
Anton Zeilinger -
Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.
Martin Luther -
For everyone here in Ohio and across America who's been ever been counted out but refused to be knocked out, for everyone who has stumbled but stood right back up, and for everyone who works hard and never gives up -- this one is for you.
Hillary Clinton -
Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!
Michael Douglas -
What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.
Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
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She was a good person. She didn’t deserve to die. I don’t think it works that way.
Beth Revis -
Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.
Steve Jobs -
There's only 60 spots (in the draft), and some things just are not reported so that everyone understands how it works. There's international players, and there's high school players to factor in.
Chris Wallace -
We're confident we can get a rate that works in the 2006 budget.
F. Thomson Leighton -
My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.
Colleen McCullough -
I want to be tolerant of other people's beliefs. I have wonderful friends who are religious, and I don't want to say that they're dimwits. They should certainly be able to pursue what works for them. I'm just saying that it doesn't work for me and I don't want to pretend that it does.
George Meyer
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I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.
Will Barnet -
Everything works if you let it
Rick Nielsen Cheap Trick -
It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.
Pablo Picasso -
I don’t really care if you’re a Republican or Democrat or you want to fight about the size of government. How about a government that just works? Put your tax dollar in and get a return out the other end.
Gina Raimondo