Quotation Explorer - 'Works'

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are. - D. H. Lawrence
Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Stories aren't facts, Cait, they're not details. Stories are feelings. You've got your feelings, haven't you?""Too many," I said."Well, that's all you need." He put his hand on mine. "Cry yourself a story, love. It works. Believe me."So that's what I did, I cried myself a story.And this is it. - Kevin Brooks
If you don't understand how the world works, then everything is a mystery to you. If everything is magical and mysterious, then you really don't work on logic anymore. Then, everything is all about belief. - Joy Reidenberg
MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge. - Ambrose Bierce
Remember, nothing that's good works by itself, just to please you. You have to make the damn thing work. - Thomas A. Edison
Most of them are remembered for their works, few are remembered in spite of them...for their finesse! - Ramana Pemmaraju
One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation. - P.G. Wodehouse
Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect. - Jack Schmitt
The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. - Núria Añó
The proud cannot accept the authority of God giving direction to their lives. (See Helaman 12:6.) They pit their perceptions of truth against God’s great knowledge, their abilities versus God’s priesthood power, and their accomplishments against His mighty works. - Ezra Taft Benson
I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
Weh I was a kid I prayed every night for a bike until I figured out that that's not the way that God works, so I stole a bike and then asked him for forgiveness. - Emo Phillips
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. - Kurt Vonnegut
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. - Augustine of Hippo
That didn't surprise me; any man with a grain of sense knows that marriage is the only way, these days, to acquire a full-time maid who works twenty-five hours a day. with no time off and no pay except room and board. - Elizabeth Peters
The emphasis of the churches were not in how much work or home keeping is done in the four walls of the church itself, they rather told the Protestants to go prove their love to God at their work places through the quality of their works - Sunday Adelaja
I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works. - Ernest Hemingway
You are special individual. Never envy others.You never know what they go through.Seek and be inspired by the works of others. Learn their secrets for success. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Banning the word bossy doesn’t promote anything, especially leadership. In fact, it would actually show that being bossy works. We don’t need to ban the word bossy, we need to get rid of bossiness. The best way to do that? Be a real leader. How poetic. - Darrell Cheney
Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries. - Christopher Hitchens
When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works. - Hannibal Buress
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. - Samuel Johnson
My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free. - Nikki Rowe
People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes. The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it’s like missing water. Every day, you notice the person’s absence more. - Anne Tyler
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? - Milton Berle
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. - Samuel Johnson
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. - Kurt Vonnegut
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - George Bernard Shaw
It is said with truth that every building is constructed stone by stone, and the same may be said of knowledge, extracted and compiled by many learned men, each of whom builds upon the works of those who proceeded him. - George R.R. Martin
The human being is a very poorly designed machine tool. The human being excels in coordination. He excels in relating perception to action. He works best if the entire human being, muscles, senses, and mind, is engaged in the work. - Peter F. Drucker
In life things get complicated, but it works out eventuallyIt always does - Essa Alam
Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works. - Colleen Wainwright
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. - Persian Proverb
The real power of silence is to keep silent. The real power of silence is in the works of silence! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Probably it's true, The Purge works for the government, who knows? - Deyth Banger
Joy is what people take,happiness is what you make,pain is something you feel and the more you feed it the more it works. - Royal Cromwell
It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together.
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. - Louis Nizer
Sending love to a situation is really simple and works wonders. All you have to do is think of the situation and imagine it surrounded by a light that reminds you of love. - Kyle Gray
Learning a language is not interesting than knowing how it works. - Ritesh Shrivastav
Hunting, works for conservation like slavery works for economic growth. A guaranteed but morally awful way to achieve a goal. - Peter Allison
Reputation is an invisible force that works for or against you based on the efforts you put to persevere building your character - Hiyamedia
Regarding school vs. homeschoolIf it works, send them there!If it doesn't, don't import it. - Joyce Herzog
Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works. - Tom Robbins
How much value do you want to get out of life? You get out what you put in. Approach your life with intent, courage, faith and hard work, and you’ll reap the beautiful value those sacrifices provide. That’s the way our strange world works. - Richie Norton
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres - the fiction has to be real inside your head. - Sara Sheridan
It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written. - Karl Marx
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung
When you live in contrary to the demand of life, life doesn't work for you. Life rather works against you. - Sunday Adelaja
When you do great things, Expect greater things. None of your works are done in vain. You will achieve what you set forth to accomplish! - Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Staying aloof from what's keeping you away from Him is not works. - Steven Chopade
In my opinion, works of art should be viewed as gifts; something precious given from a point of empathy, where personal enrichment is vastly superior to the value of the gift, and the giver begs for nothing but for the gift to shine on its own. - Kevin Focke
Your mind is like a parachute. It only works if it is open.
I know that sometimes a lie is used in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of the truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agonyof a lie is neverlost. That's a running sore - John Steinbeck
Everything you know is a story. That’s how human consciousness works. - Ed Gray
Don't just do what is required, do what is respected then, at you'll know, you did the right thing even if it works out wrong. - michael p naughton
The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt. - Sergei Rachmaninoff
Let her know that her look really works for you. - Auliq Ice
Enforcement isn’t about big government or small government. It’s about whether government works and who it works for. - Elizabeth Warren
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art. - Man Ray
It's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works hard to keep things rolling smoothly, someone else sails along for the ride. Someone who would do anything to keep it the way it was in the beginning. - Jodi Picoult
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. - Robert Wilensky
Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot where opinions are not brutally honest but delicately honest. - Sheryl Sandberg
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement. - B.F. Skinner
The only things that erased my lonliness were written works - Novala Takemoto
History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses. - michael p naughton
The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills. We survive by what little Fourth of July wits we’ve stashed away. But there are times when we’re all autumn people. - Ray Bradbury
Art works to satisfy the instinct and the science works to satisfy the reason. - Thiruman Archunan
Every door makes a way; for some it works and some just say - Wrushank Sorte
The heart is the only broken instrument that works. - T.E. Kalem
Writer is a miner; he works in the gloomy places like a miner to get the precious material. - Mehmet Murat ildan
Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances - Robert E. Lee
As good surgical doctor works on a patient in the theater with varied kinds of surgical instruments, so a true leader also needs a clean bag of leadership characters that vary from task to task. One-way leaders are obvious failures! - Israelmore Ayivor
You were born a star; autograph your life with excellent works. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process. - Joseph Priestley
when you courageously believe in the power of doubt instead of the power of God, you much see the works of doubt and least see the works of God - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too. - Robert Half
All real works of art look as though they were done in joy. - Robert Henri
And I will stop trying to fall in love again, and keep it a secret. It never works out anyway - Ed Sheeran
Hey, hey wait... wait... try again.... It works does it?? (What?? YOu are asking a question did you?? I'm talking about the problem which you had and something didn't work as well as far as I can see... So I will wait... wait... try now!) - Deyth Banger
God's love and His gift of salvation are given to you by God’s grace—not earned by your works. - Jim George
We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it. - Joyce Carol Oates
God needs to bless the works of our hands, but you still need to do some work for God to bless it - Sunday Adelaja
Tool works on Android and iOS - Soul Seeker Hack
An ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a book-keeper. - E. O. Wilson
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. - Blaise Pascal
Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't. - Peter Drucker
Dreams are horrible, to don't talk about nightmares they are more often. But there is always one gift from a person which you know is dead, that's how it works and it will continue to work. - Deyth Banger
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works. - Stephen Hawking
Don’t make any plans, because there is only one plan which really works and that is not even devised by you - Alok Jagawat
Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view. - Daniel Tammet Thinking in Numbers How Maths Illuminates Our Lives
Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success. - Brian Tracy
I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone. - Charles de Lint
Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring. - Marty Rubin
I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him. - Sigmund Freud
In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read and they have been many, big, and heavy I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience. - Charles Sanders Peirce
The only thing that makes advice great is when you apply it and it works so try, try try. - Rob Liano
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Our soul contains energy, transformed into Spirit, expressing dreams and thoughts through works of the mind. - Stacy Snapp Killian aka StacyK
Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy. - Hugh Howey
Everything that is experienced through the five senses is all ‘discharge’. It is due to one’s merit karmas that everything works according to one’s wishes, but he claims, ‘I did it’ and when one faces losses, he will say, ‘God did it’ or ‘my horoscope is unfavorable’. - Dada Bhagwan
It's hard to get enough of something that almost works. - Vincent Felitti, MD
The opposite is best. Whenever you're angry with someone, apply this maxim. I means doing the exact opposite of what your body's telling you to do. Believe me, it works miracles. Titus in Love in Lowercase - Francesc Miralles
A good man is called a man by his works - Tshikororo Raymond
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. - Steve Jobs
sometimes in your works, give people the opportunity to express their ignorance; then you prove the wrong with your works. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Political corruption works by having an equally corrupt legal system to protect it. - Steven Magee
A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth. - Edmund Burke
The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas. - Theodore Zeldin
Democracy works. Against us.
If you love somebody set them free- it also works equally well if you hate somebody - Josh Stern
A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. - Gerald R. Ford
The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I fear liars, and I fear tricksters, and worst I fear the bitter truth. And so I rule my country well. Because only fear rules men. Nothing else works. Nothing else lasts long enough. - Ursula K. Le Guin
A man works for his own dreams but a great man works for their dreams. - Deshwal Sachin
For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works. - Jim Al-Khalili
Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of God. - Euripides
God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways. - Penn Jillette
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. - Marc Chagall
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. - Joseph Joubert
Technology is great...when it works. - Bobby Darnell
Develop an affirmation today, and start getting instant confirmation in all works of like. - Richmond Akhigbe
From good to the better for the best!Sounds like taken from Advertisement, as for my works. If you are open person in being honest... rape/murder/killing... it's something which is around us. - Deyth Banger
This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident. - Martin Luther
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P. J. O'Rourke
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works. - John Gaule
A great mentor works on your character to be as strong as iron. - JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA
Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers. - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
For me, a paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and conduct melodies. And that's exactly what Garden Avenue is, and all of my projects after that. - Shawn Lukas
See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it. It always works, it works every time with every person" - - Bob Proctor
Holocaust survivors and their descendants are supposed to hate those who oppressed and killed them and their people. Black people are not. This is how anti-blackness works. - Darnell Lamont Walker
After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works. - Gwen Stefani
Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself. - Edward Hirsch
I can only meditate when I am walking, when I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs. - Rousseau Jean-Jacques 1712-1778
When you love your work, it works better. - Shampa Sharma
Discovering passion and purpose requires figuring out what works and what doesn't. Mature, successful people establish their on rules. These rules are measured by only one standard: do they work? - Robert A. Glover
You’ve got sadness in you, I’ve got sadness in me and my works of art are places where the two sadnesses can meet, and therefore both of us need to feel less sad. - Mark Rothko
Life works with balance. If you give and receive out of giving, you create a balance with life. You serve life, before you expect life to serve you. - Roshan Sharma
There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Don't bother. - Ziad K. Abdelnour
- My love is about 2/3rds as invisible as her love, and that sort of transparency isn’t really all that healthy in a relationship. - I chop trees down with my sharpened mustache, remember? Cloning works, but can lead you in the wrong direction.-Jarod Kintz and - Stefan D
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life. - James M. Barrie
For a time I hovered in that peaceful dreamland where nothing at all works properly but everything is okay. - William Giraldi
We must primarily become seekers of God instead of founders of works, for work will not sustain us through the traumas of incarnation. - Viv Grigg
When the momentum of mindfulness is well developed, it works like a boomerang; even if we want to distract ourselves, the mind naturally rebounds to a state of awareness. - Joseph Goldstein
Until one expands his imagination, abilities and capacity to do and receive, he will always have the crumbs from those who dare to do great works - Bernard Kelvin Clive
All precious things discovered lateTo those that seek them issue forth,For Love in sequel works with Fate,And draws the veil from hidden worth - Alfred Lord Tennyson
All things acceptable to God the Father must come from God the Son, whether us or our works. - paul viggiono
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. - Samuel Johnson
Language is rich, and malleable. It is a living, vibrant material, and every part of a poem works in conjunction with every other part - the content, the place, the diction, the rhythm, the tone-as well as the very sliding, floating, thumping, rapping sounds of it. - Mary Oliver
Deep within ourselves, we find the inner being, the inner source of love, which is our true nature. Love is the only reality, because only love works. - Swami Dhyan Giten
My mind works in mysterious ways - E.lockhart
Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give.
Nothing is more likely than that [the] enumeration of powers is defective. This is the ordinary case of all human works. Let us then go on perfecting it by adding by way of amendment to the Constitution those powers which time and trial show are still wanting - Thomas Jefferson
When faced with 2 choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you. But because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air YOU SUDDENLY KNOW WHAT YOUR HOPING FOR. :) - wisdom quotes
Artifacts are alive. Each has a voice. They remind us what it means to be human - that it is our nature to survive, to create works of beauty to be resourceful, to be attentive to the world we live in. - Terry Tempest Williams
It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
...for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works. - Frédéric Bastiat
Great men don't strive for greatness, theysimply do great works. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
If a politician wins in a dirty way at election, he will sat in position and works with corruption. - Bradley B. Dalina
It's like I have a sensor in my head, but she works on a seven-second delay... well-meaning, but perpetually about seven seconds too late to actually do anything to stop the horrific avalanche of shit-you-shouldn't- say-out-loud-but-I-just-did. - Jenny Lawson
...It is only now that memory works both ways. Which of us dreamed it - those from the country of nights five times as warm and as cold, or those who turned away and woke? - Angele Ellis
May life continue to inspire you for good works and an, inevitable, outcome. May wisdom never fail your endeavors . . . - King Davis
For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club. - Martin Luther
We do good works, not in order to be saved, but because we are saved; not in order to earn God's favor, but with the favor of His help. - Alex Brett Harris
The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.
I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life. - James M. Barrie
People who live outside a society are the ones who can see how it works.
Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. - Claude Debussy
God works through angels, people, nature and animals. - Eileen Anglin
Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable. - Azar Nafisi
Fuk society, they don't understand nobody. That's how works everything... - Deyth Banger
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. - Pliny the Elder
The greatest improvement is made by the man who works most intelligently.
In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try. - Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman
The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good. - Jonah Goldberg
Success is focusing on your A-list. Success is thinking profits. Success is doing only what works. Success is easier when you tread the path that leads to success - Asuni LadyZeal
I got my wife a mood ring. It works real good! When shes in a good mood it turns blue, but when shes in a bad mood theres a red mark across my forehead - Jeff Foxworthy
The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning. - Truman Capote
Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.'Subliminal messaging works! - Nick Jimbanis
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard. - Leonardo da Vinci
While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, ."He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, . - George Bernard Shaw
Mother's hug- The only drug that works every time, costs nothing and has no side effects. - Hassaan Ali
Husband and wife both are works together as two wheels in a vehicle. Here is equality between both. - Kusum Manjeshri
Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work. - Orrin Woodward
The world can't get worse than this. Only more persons will become aware of the dust that works as rust in the most people's mind as the time passes and internet usage proliferates. - Anuj Somany
People may forget the quantity of your works but cannot forget the quality of your works. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma).One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa.Rely on your Self; self-reliance - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
It's amazing to me that we humans have the intellectual capacity to ask deep questions and to devise methods for learning how the universe works and how its contents evolve with time. - Alex Filippenko
Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster. - Brian Tracy
At a stage in life, you learn to talk less. That is, let your works do the talking. Hence, work hard in silence. The evidence will be clear for all to see. - Oscar Bimpong
Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works. - David Shore
I'd ask [God] why he keeps trying to kill us all with disease, pestilence, and natural disasters. I'd ask why 99% of all species there ever were are now extinct -- if God works in mysterious ways, that way is mysteriously genocidal. - Neil deGrasse Tyson
We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery. - Dejan Stojanovic
As he spoke, the wind whistled through the gaps in his teeth, creating an odd musical accompaniment to his words. -- unpublished as of Jan 11 2016, but surely due to appear in one of my works eventually. - Kira Stone
Maybe nature is like you and me. It works like all of us. If the weather changes all the time,then it must be on duty. On this cold day winter has started it's shift therefore let us leave it to do it's job. - Paballo Seipei
It's getting hard to be someone, but it all works out.
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window. - William Faulkner
When some one use "You", in stead of "Us", It makes you cry, because in love whatever happens it need to be happen in both end, if its only "I" or "You" then the value of love becomes singular and everyone can feel or need to know, in LOVE singular never works...... - Nutan Bajracharya
Happiness is simply a temporary condition that proceeds unhappiness. Fortunately for us, it works the other way around as well. But it's all a part of the carnival, isn't it? - Federico Fellini
if it works it's obsolete - Marshall McLuhan
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. - Will Rogers
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. - Rosa Parks
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. - E.M. Forster
Religion + Good Works = Good WorksSolve for Religion. - Dan Barker
Creativity works on a winding, circuitous route. - Gail Z. Martin
I'm not one of those academics that don't do shit but reads about it. The difference is, I do shit. I have a proof of concept and it works. - Ron Finley
We can learn so much from nature by simply observing how it works through a flower. The flower knows it is part of nature' we have forgotten that. - Thomas Sterner
The genius of play is that, in playing, we create imaginative new cognitive combinations. And in creating those novel combinations, we find what works.
You'll want to read books - novels, because ladies are frivolous; poetry because ladies are sentimental; and sermons, because we are pious. If you must read essays, Mr. Emerson might be best. Your gentleman may have a nodding acquaintance with his works. - Donald McCaig
Every season has a reason. Summer cannot do the works of winter, nor winter the works of summer. Each season is unique yet so important, so cherish the seasons in your life. - Gugu Mona
Diplomacy never works. - Nadia Scrieva
The works which this leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet his name will shine out with lustre in the history of the sciences.{Cuvier on Joseph Banks} Georges Cuvier - man
God works in mysterious ways but at least he works, he's never on welfare in a mysterious way. - Stephen Colbert
A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed; it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art. - Charles Rosen
There's no correlation between creativity and equipment ownership. None. Zilch. Nada. Actually, as the artist gets more into his thing, and as he gets more successful, his number of tools tends to go down. He knows what works for him. Expending mental energy on stuff wastes time. - Hugh Macleod
Men won't easily give up a system in which half the world's population works for next to nothing...[and recognizes that]precisely because that half works for so little, it may have no energy left to fight for anything else. - Marilyn Waring
Love and mercy heals;where nothing works, love does.. - Henrietta Newton Martin
Be the reason someone smiles today. Or the reason they drown in a book. Whatever works. - Roney Ngala
Stephen King and Clive Barker can make amazing works, such people's book should be on your list. - Deyth Banger
See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it. It always works, it works every time with every person - Bob Proctor
The kosmos works by harmony of tensions, like lyre and bow. Good and evil are one. On the one hand God sees all as well, fair, and good; on the other hand a human being sees injustice here, justice there. Justice in our minds is strife. We cannot help but see war makes us as we are. - Heraclitus
Where are they, the American fiction writers whose works are interested in the question What do these people have to do with us? and What are we doing out there in the world? - Kamila Shamsie
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat. - Douglas Adams
Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few. - David P. Mikkelson
In meetings philosophy might work,on the field practicality works. - Amit Kalantri
Time spent praying and planning gives you a master plan that works for your home and sets a pattern of order for your life. - Elizabeth George
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust. - Charles W. Chesnutt
The key to happiness is to listen to campy Parisian music and smile at a bird. It hinges on insanity, but it works. - Erica Goros
Maybe my time's running out, but at least I'm living. And if that's what it is for you, being here inside where nothing ever happens, where you think you're safe, then stay. Stay right here and you let me know how that works for you.Bacause I'm gessing it'll never be enough. - John Corey Whaley
Bruised, beaten, shaken, weakened, tossed, thrown, lost, alone, heard, helped, healed, hope... it still works. - N'Zuri Za Austin
Inspiration works well at boiling point. - Debasish Mridha
A paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and conduct melodies. And that's exactly what Garden Avenue is, and all of my projects after that. - Shawn Lukas
God comes when your broken; not when you believe but he works when you believe. - tirumala
The crime series, books and other types of works have in one in mind... and that's learning. - Deyth Banger
A person who loves only oneself attracts many towards him/her because the parity of people nature works in tandem; but one who stands unselfish in life distracts many and so he remains without any. - Anuj Somany
He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist. - Francis of Assisi
All creative work begins as play. The more one plays, the better one works. - Marty Rubin
Ignoring phone calls leads to a simple life with more free time. Ignoring emails works well also! I do both when I am trying to get things done. - Steven Magee
Our Lord took on a body like ours and lived as a man in order that those who had refused to recognize Him in His superintendence and capacity of the whole universe might come to recognize from the works He did here below in the body that what dwelled in this body was the Word of God. - Athanasius of Alexandria
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen. - William Hazlitt
Because failure works double time, to get success, work triple time. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Works of art create their own rules. - Marty Rubin
MORNINGTIDEThe wonderful works of morningtidebring the sight of luminous whiteness,a breathing whimsyamong wind-tossed sprigs of green. - Tara Estacaan
You did not choose this path for yourself - it is the path that was chosen for you. That is the way life works at time. However, the choices you make as you travel the path are always yours and you must make them wise choices - Jeff Dixon-Terror in the Kingdom
A Happy Heart is a good medicine & a Positive mind works Healing - JoanneTarah
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. - Confucius
I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich. - Jim Carrey
For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on. - Garth Nix
Marginal gains is not about making small changes and hoping they fly. Rather, it is about breaking down a big problem into small parts in order to rigorously establish what works and what doesn't. - Matthew Syed
Yes, it is God who works in you. And, yes, there is work for you to do.Yes, the Spirit empowers you to do the work. And, yes, you do the work. - Francis Chan
Years ago this was just a place where I was assigned to work. Today looking at this place represents the opportunity that God allowed me to see the beauty of His works. The difference in then and now - I guess our views are a representative of our growth. Thankful. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works. - Oscar Wilde
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. - Freeman Dyson
For me, concept of death works as a liberator from anxiety -- no matter whatever is happening, its all going to end when we die. - Shon Mehta
I want my list of works to be lean and mean and everything was urgent and had to be done. Nothing to play the market. My family’s had to suffer for that, that I haven’t done commercial jobs just to bring home the bacon. - Josh Alan Friedman
Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public. - Robert Morley
He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity. - The Talmud
People so often loose sight of the magic in life once they understand how it works. - Thomas Rogal II
He was sceptical about the value of almost all work, save for the pleasure it gives the worker,' reported Virginia Woolf. 'He works only because he likes it. - Richard Davenport-Hines
If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years. - Michael Dell
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. - Carl Sandburg
Hello, IT... Have you tried turning it off and on again?... OK, well, the button on the side. Is it glowing?... Yeah, you need to turn it on.... Err, the button turns it on.... Yeah, you do know how a button works, don't you?... No, not on clothes... I'm sorry, are you from the past? - Graham Linehan
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys. - Ludwig von Mises
To understand how growth, aging and death works, you must understand the radiation environment. - Steven Magee
This is what works for me: I practise crop rotation with my creative endeavours. I’ve found that when the nitrogen runs out in the soil in one field, it’s best to leave it fallow for a while and cultivate another. - Andrew Macrae
How we feel is not who we are. We might feel like failures, but as long as we are still trying, we are not failures. We are works in progress. - Toni Sorenson
But first I want you to tell me this: do you know the power of love? Christ passed over all the marvellous works which were to be performed by the apostles and said, "By this shall men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one another. - John Chrysostom
A man who works beyond the surface of things,though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth. - Edmund Burke
Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope. - Robert Veninga
Your trials equal the power of God that works in you. If your battles are intense, then what God has deposited in you is deep. - Paul Gitwaza
Sometimes, you can be more than enough for someone, but they choose not to be in your life. Always remember that Satan works hard to keep people miserable by feeding their fears, so they stay in their comfort zone. The truth is some people value what is predictable, more than chemistry. - Shannon L. Alder
Inspiration works on the same sense as humans, quite generous yet impatient. When it calls, better respond there and then or it moves shop. - Unarine Ramaru
God has allowed us to live in this time to do His works on earth. - Sunday Adelaja
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. - Samuel Johnson
As far as now I can tell that most Stephen King fans don't know him well. They have read or viewed few works and their judge is based on them... that's now well knowing a writer! - Deyth Banger
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. - Fred Allen
Sometimes I think about dying. And then I wonder about going to hell. And then I think that if and when I go there, the place will be completely organized and run by lost souls, with a council and a works committee and an ethics panel, and I'll feel right at home. - Charles Sheffield
Oppose vigorously any tendency to sadness ... You must persevere. By means of sorrow the enemy tries to make us weary of good works, but if he sees that we don't give them up and that being done in spite of his opposition they have become very meritorious, he will stop troubling us. - Francis de Sales
Respect, love, trust; Every such thing works both ways.If yeu want someone to respect yeu, yeu must respect that someone too. - Sandesh Hukpachongbang
Technology is your friend... When it works. - Jack Wynn
There is nothing that works out for the worst that won't work out for the better. - Karldon Okruta
Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
My method is based on female psychology, so it works regardless of your looks or money - Erik Von Markovik
The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works. - John H. Gerstner
An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works. - Gaston Leroux
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward. - Lewis Carroll
One either meets or one works. - Peter Drucker
You have made a mistake, well good, good this shows that you have to learn a lesson... I have also made a mistake, she also has made a mistake, all have made mistake, that's life. That's how everything works! - Deyth Banger
The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon... - Terry Pratchett
In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep - Friedrich Nietzsche
I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to any man should be confiscated and made unlawful by other men in more seemingly powerful and advantageous positions. - Charles Bukowski
If you say one lie enough times, it becomes truth people start to believe. (That's how it works - Extracted) - Deyth Banger
Using Pain To Relieve Pain. Doesn't Make Much Sense. But It Works. - Lupe Hernandez
OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock. - Ambrose Bierce
Respect, love, Trust; Every such things works both ways. If yeu want someone to respect yeu, yeu must respect that someone too. - Sandesh limbu
God works on earth only through the prayers of believers and based on this basis, the destiny of this world is not in the hands of earthly kings and rulers but in the hands of prayer warriors. - Sunday Adelaja
The Self Care Formula is simple. It is NITO(5R)...that is Nutrients In and Toxins Out in the 5 Realms the body works in (Mental, Emotional, Physical, Environmental and Spiritual). Unfortunately, we are doing TINO(5R) that is toxins in and nutrients out. - Nina Leavins
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. - Louis Pasteur
A certain amount of impatience can be good to do the good works excessive patience delays to do, but sometimes, it is good to have a little amount of patience, for a little amount of patience can be a big antidote to a big woe of impatience - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The wisdom of man can only produce works on a human level. Only the Wisdom of God can realize things divine, and it is to divine heights that it destines us. - Father Jacques Philippe
Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works - Munia Khan
Try to look at causes and solve problems. Do not concentrate on military solutions. Do not seek military solutions. Terrorism is a political problem. Seek political solutions. Diplomacy works. - Eqbal Ahmed
While it is good to apologize and ask forgiveness from God, it’s just as important (perhaps more so) to extend it towards the person you wronged. Becoming a better person or trying to make amends with the universe only works when you start with the one you owe it to. - Donna Lynn Hope
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works... - J. R. R. Tolkien
The weirder you are going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. - P. J. O'Rourke
I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens. - Randy K. Milholland
Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation. - Maxim Gorky
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. - Willa Cather
By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns. - William Herschel
Love is the greatest artist in the universe; all her works are masterpieces. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The Christian life doesn't work because we are such great followers. It works because Christ is such a great Leader. - David McGee
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. - Scott Adams
God comes when your broken; not you believe but he works when you believe.. - tirumala
Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent. - Núria Añó
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