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Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.
Martha Gellhorn

Age, Great, Car

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
Edward Hopper

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Leonard Cohen

Dreams, Good, Truth

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
Jonathan Swift

Care, Justice, May

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
Charles Caleb Colton

Good, Yourself, Seriously

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers

Whole, Getting, Knowing

A thing well done is worth doing.
Hugh Leonard

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.
Emile M. Cioran

Life, Living, Hatred

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Made, Beginning, Half

I'm always excited to try something I haven't done.
Demetri Martin

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Wilson Mizner

Great, Small, Desire

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.
Bo Bennett

Good, Past, Person

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.
Galen Rowell

Work, Real, Find

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
William Penn

Learning, Live, Studious

Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today.
Reba McEntire

Work, Good, Today

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
Emily Bronte

Work, Person, Leaving

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.
George Whitefield

Work, Until, Earth

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.
Neale Donald Walsch

Life, Friendship, God

Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.
Keith Richards

Alone, Made, Another

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.
David Bowie

Work, Best, Find

I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.
David Bowie

Time, Good, Real

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
Chinua Achebe

Sometimes, Year, Ten

In my case, I can sincerely say that nothing is impossible... When I was saying I want to be No. 1 of the world, and I was seven or eight years old, most of the people were laughing at me because it seems like I have one percent of chances to do that, and I've done it.
Novak Djokovic

Nothing, Saying, Impossible

You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'
Norman Schwarzkopf

Today, Help, Different

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.
William Shatner

Good, Best, Bad

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
Charles Baudelaire

Good, Art, Evil

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
Jessamyn West

Hurt, Honesty, Trying

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
John Stuart Mill

Happiness, Possible, Mankind

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
Ben Stein

Forget, Law, Enough

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.
Nido Qubein

Great, Greatest, Single

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