Quotes with works

Quotes 221 till 240 of 259.

  • Adam Sandler This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Antoni Gaudi Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
    Antoni Gaudi
    Catalan architect
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  • Eliza Cook Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis ''good works'' make the man.
    Eliza Cook
    English author and poet (1818 - 1889)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bill Haslam To say that because of someone's heritage or their ethnicity that they are unable to provide fair judgement is just wrong. It's just not how the judicial system works in our country and not how it ever can work.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Betty Williams Turmoil is everywhere, and the whole world is waiting for solutions to come from the top down. That's not how it works - community change from the bottom up makes a real difference.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Rebecca West We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Douglas Adams We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Bev Perdue We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we can keep moving forward with President Obama's vision for a growing economy that works for middle-class families in North Carolina and all across the country. For me, for North Carolina and for America, it's an easy choice.
    Bev Perdue
    American businesswoman and politician (1947 - )
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Mark Twain We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton We should have a glorious conflagration if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Eckhart Tolle We should not think that holiness is based on what we do but rather on what we are, for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.
    Talks of Instruction (1994)
    Eckhart Tolle
    German-Canadian teacher and spiritual writer (1948 - )
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  • A. Philip Randolph We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less... This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of men, yes, men, brave men, honest men, determined men.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Ben Foster We've all been influenced by American naturalism, and to ignore that entirely would be impossible for me as someone who works primarily in film.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Ben Carson Well, when did this become a monarchy? You know, we are the people. The president works for us and, you know, we need to remember that.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Beth Brooke What I don't underestimate is everybody's deal is different and everybody's deal makes it difficult. And so it is incumbent upon employers to create flexible work environments that allow people to fulfill their professional and personal lives in a way that works for themselves.
    Beth Brooke
    American businesswoman and athelete (1959 - )
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