"Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical."
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"Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done."
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"Po flickered. "Thank you?" it repeated. "What is that?" Liesl thought. "It means, You were wonderful," she said. "It means, I couldn't have done it without you."
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"Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done."
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"If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself to be pleased by good. Accumulating good is joyful."
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"We may not have done anything but when we are relaxed, when we are peaceful, when we are able to smile and not to be violent in the way we look at the system, at that moment there is a change already in the world."
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"We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability."
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"The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions."
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"Hey Lord... Whatever I done... Don't strike me blind for another couple ah minutes."
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"Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence."
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"Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own."
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"I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires."
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"If my own experience had taught me anything, it was that, if a thing had to be done, it could be done."
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"All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet."
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"Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress."
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"I do not love thee less for what is done, And cannot be undone. Thy very weakness Hath brought thee nearer to me, and henceforth My love will have a sense of pity in it, Making it less a worship than before."
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"The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!"
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"I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?"
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"--you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me."
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"I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done."
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