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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Alexander Pope

Change, Nature, Great

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl Sandburg

Religion, Won, Except

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.
John McGahern

Rain, Dead, Language

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
Francois Rabelais

God, Hope, Strength

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
Ansel Adams

Life, Human, Creative

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

Life, Whether, Seems

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
Joseph Addison

Writing, Kinds, Among

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
Van Morrison

Change, Same, Stay

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Joseph Joubert

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
Simone Weil

Art, Consumed, Ought

I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.
Steve Martin

Shot, Perfectly, Chimney

All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
Paris Hilton

Pretty, British, Names

Self-reform is the only kind that works.
Mason Cooley

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
Antonio Gaudi

Nature, Support, Laws

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

Art, Why, Opinion

It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
Vance Havner

Time, God, Parents

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Joseph Joubert

Great, Alone, Genius

Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
Paul McCartney

Together, Two, Loved

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
William Penn

God, Above, Mercy

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.
Jamie Zawinski

Give, Hacker, Figure

The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
Sri Aurobindo

Spiritual, Greatest, Race

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
Malcolm X

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

Dreams, Good, Truth

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.
Thomas Aquinas

Good, Together, Purpose

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.
Alma Gluck

Artist, Bird, Natural

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Art, Sense, Artist

I want to tell any young girl out there who's a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.
Sheryl Sandberg

School, Girl, Young

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
Samuel Goldwyn

Story, Earthquake, Climax

Free love never works.
Jennifer Aniston

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.
Shaun White

Best, Happy, Game

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