"Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not."
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"I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do."
"Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood."
"Wow. Imagine what God could have done if he'd had money."
"Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self."
"I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative."
"An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty."
"Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done."
"Delusion gives you more happiness than truth gives to me. For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer."
"The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly can't be done without the people. The poet and the people get on generally very badly, and yet they need each other. The poet knows it sooner than the people do. The people usually know it after the poet is dead; but that's all right. The point is to get your work done, and your work is to change the world."
"Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times."
"God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him."
"Nothing can be done well at a speed of forty miles a day. The multitude of mixed, novel impressions rapidly piled on one another make only a dreamy, bewildering, swirling blur, most of which is unrememberable."
"By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made"
"I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!"
"I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot. This is the system I prefer: to arrive at the moment when shooting is about to begin, absolutely unprepared, virgin. I often ask to be left alone on the spot for fifteen minutes or half an hour and I let my thoughts wander freely."
"He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal."
"As soon as you awake, in order Lay the actions to be done the coming day."
"The world population 60 years ago was just over 2 billion and it's now more than 6 billion. This huge increase - an explosion really - has probably done more harm to the environment than anything else."
"When the Queen says 'well done,' it means so much."