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“A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.”
Kurt Cobain
“I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.”
Jim Carrey
“There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.”
Hillary Clinton
“I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and
the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.”
Hillary Clinton
“When my hair was shorter, I used to get it done every couple of days... but I got tired of that.”
Hillary Clinton
“Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.”
Johnny Depp
“I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.”
Johnny Depp
“I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business.”
Johnny Depp
“Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.”
Thomas Stearns Eliot
“The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.”
Thomas Stearns Eliot
“While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.”
Helen Keller
“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”
Maya Angelou
“What one has to do usually can be done.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.”
George Carlin
“If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.”
Edward Hopper
“I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.”
Mick Jagger
“Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.”
William James
“Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.”
William James
“I'm totally not against plastic surgery. I've tried Botox before. That's the only thing that I've done.”
Kim Kardashian
“You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”
Stephen King
“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'”
Clive Staples Lewis
“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.”
Clive Staples Lewis
“At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.”
Paul McCartney
“Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?”
Groucho Marx
“I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?”
Douglas MacArthur
“Nothing I do is done by popular demand.”
Steve Martin
“And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.”
Barack Obama