"Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done."
Done quotes
Done
7.5K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Done
Browse quotes that often appear alongside done — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Done quotes (page 60 of 374)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother—-Scrubb probably has!"
"There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done."
"We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again."
"We can get this done! Take a vote, and send me that bill."
"No matter how much you've done, or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve."
"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done."
"The problem is that, over time, big pieces of business that have to get done without leadership from Washington, don't get done."
"What we have done, I think, is build a model from a lot of hard lessons in Afghanistan and Iraq but in other places around the world, where we are working with them in an advisory capacity."
"Health care got done because there were a lot of people out there who aren't professional politicians, but are citizens, who pushed for it even when the politics was hard."
"Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else."
"The challenge there is that ISIL doesn't have an air force, so the damage done there is not against ISIL, it's against the Syrian regime."
"I don't buy the hype when everybody is saying how wonderful things are and how great I am, and I don't get too down when people say, "This is a disaster and he's done for.""
"Sometimes we take somebody who's been in the trenches and fought the good fight and been steady for granted. Sometimes we act as if never having done something and not knowing what you're doing is a virtue."
"My strong preference has always been to legislate when I can get legislation done."
"There are always things that I think I wish I could have done better."
"Everyone on my team should be extraordinarily proud of what they have done."
"You know, I gotta be honest. I have not done a lot of CGI work. I just haven't. I mean, there were hundreds of effects in Watchmen, and I probably dealt with almost none of them, because all my stuff was very practical."
"By the time I was 10 or 11, I was completely demoralized. I thought, "I'm done. I'm never going to be a missionary," because my indiscretion column, whether it was little lies or stealing a Chunky bar, kept me from sainthood."
"With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking myself - 'This seems to be a significant problem. What can be done that hasn't been done?"