"All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness."
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"Try to un-gerrymander these districts so that you're not packing all the Democrats into one district, so you've got districts that are competitive, so that you've got a shot at electing Democrats. But that's more a long-term proposition, if it can even be done."
"The only thing I can think to do is if the Democratic Party can do what the Republicans have done, which is go in there and take control of these legislatures and governors' areas."
"So [Republicans] packed all the Democrats into districts, very Democratic districts. What that's done is made our party urban, more liberal, and so those people are doing what their constituents want. But that's not what my constituents want."
"Tsze-Kung asked, “Is there one word with which to act in accordance throughout a lifetime?” The Master said, “Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
"Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know."
"I never got a lot done using a broomstick. You've got to have something that's lethal."
"If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?"
"I dont know what I ever done, she said. I truly dont. Chigurh nodded. Probably you do, he said. There's a reason for everything. She shook her head. How many times I've said them very words. I wont again."
"You either stick or you quit. And I wouldnt quit you I dont care what you done."
"If it must be done, it's best done bravely."
"Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more."
"For a man, once you've sired your pups, you're done."
"If you've done what you intended and if nobody tampered with it, then it's yours. And if people don't like it, then they just don't agree with you on that subject matter, and that's life."
"I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time."
"It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate."
"it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with."
"The very best proof that something can be done is that someone has already done it."
"The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake."
"I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe that anything in deductive logic can be done by machinery."