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“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.”
Buddha
“Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.”
Clare Boothe Luce
“I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.”
Abraham Lincoln
“He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.”
Horace
“The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.”
Horace
“He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.”
Horace
“Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.”
Plato
“Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.”
Plato
“Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.”
Coco Chanel
“Well begun is half done.”
Aristotle
“Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.”
Moliere
“There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.”
Aldous Huxley
“The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.”
Aldous Huxley
“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”
Aesop
“Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?”
Sophocles
“If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.”
Sophocles
“Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.”
Victor Hugo
“No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.”
Franz Kafka
“What's done can't be undone.”
William Shakespeare
“Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.”
William Shakespeare
“I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.”
Dennis Quaid
“When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.”
Robert Rodriguez
“Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.”
Robert Rodriguez
“I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.”
Robert Rodriguez
“When all is said and done, more is always said than done.”
Drake
“People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.”
Eminem
“The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.”
Lil Wayne
“To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.”
George Washington Bush