The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
James Madison

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
Thomas A. Edison

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
Malcolm X

Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.
Jack LaLanne

The weirder you're 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

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
P. J. O'Rourke

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
Salvador Dali

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

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
John Keats

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl Jung

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.
Bill Maher

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
Jean-Paul Sartre

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
George Bernard Shaw

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
Lee Iacocca

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Albert Camus

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
Saint Thomas Aquinas