Top 1200 Works Quotes & Sayings

It's such a strange marriage, a song and someone that sings it. When that works, it really works, and when it doesn't, it doesn't.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Nick O'Leary loves to compete. His work ethic is fantastic, and that's what I like about him. He works, and works, and works; and if he has to get better, he gets better.

Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling.

The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only learn that people exist when there is crisis.

For notwithstanding this rest and cessation from labor which is required on the Lord's day, yet three sorts of works may and ought to be performed. . . . these are works of piety, works of necessity, and works of charity.

Each natural agent works but to this end,- To render that it works on like itself.

Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, works only as long as it works; it does not know what to do if deterrence fails, for it envisions no defensive capabilities. A deterrent works until it is needed; then one needs defenses.

We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.

I'm turned off by the groupie thing. I'm a romantic; I like finding the right woman, and if it works, it works.

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't.

All of the great Disney works took works that were in the public domain and remixed them.

I can recommend nothing better... than that you endeavor to infuse into your works what you learn from the contemplation of the works of others.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

Grace stands in direct opposition to any supposed worthiness on our part. To say it another way: Grace and works are mutually exclusive. As Paul said in Romans 11:6, "And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace." Our relationship with God is based on either works or grace. There is never a works-plus-grace relationship with Him.

My mother works in a bank, and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.

The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We're saved by works, but they're not our own.

We want to be a works partner. Ferrari and Mercedes have their own works teams so where would you be in the pecking order if you're a customer?

As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you're a young kid, you get attached to these characters.

All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.

The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.

Actually, if you look at the works of the great architects of our time, you can see that their most beautiful works are always their later works - Kahn, Corbusier, even Gehry.

Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science-how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it would be hard to find a guy who's logged more hours than that guy.

The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.

Despite the belief of many career bureaucrats that elected political leadership works for them, our system is built on the idea that the permanent bureaucracy, such as it exists, works for the elected leadership, which in turn works for and represents the American public.

They that are of the flesh cannot do the works of the Spirit, neither can they that are spiritual do the works of the flesh, even as faith cannot do the works of unbelief, nor unbelief the works of faith.

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.

Internally, when we manage portfolios, we figure out what works in large cap, what works in mid cap, what works in small cap. Generally speaking, large cap stocks want earning stability, strong cash flow, margin expansion.

My mother works in a bank and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.

When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force.

... life is broken down into these stages: you're born and you don't know how anything works; gradually you find out how everything works; technology evolves and slowly there are a few things you can't work; at the end, you don't know how anything works.

My older son works in finance and private equity, which he loves, and Lucas works in film and theater.

The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.

I have a database of all my works that I maintain to keep track of works and editions.

The mission of the A.R.T. is to expand the boundaries of theater through works of the canon and the new works of tomorrow.

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

The 'Tron' fans have a real passion. They know their stuff and what works and why it works. It is more than a movie: it is a philosophy.

I'm very inquisitive, and I always have questions and need to touch things to see how it works or why it works.

I hold that we have a very imperfect knowledge of the works of nature till we view them as works of God,— not only as works of mechanism, but works of intelligence, not only as under laws, but under a Lawgiver, wise and good.

The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

Most families aren't all in the public eye as we are. It works as a blessing. It works in our favor.

When a dish works, it works for everyone, whether you're Asian, European, African, American or anybody else.

My mom works in funerals, and my dad works at Burger King.

As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It’s the reason why people love Harry Potter. Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you’re a young kid, you get attached to these characters.

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.

All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.

The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well.

If I write a joke and it works, and it works consistently, that is gold to me.

Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting works.

People in both parties from the congressional intelligence committees - all these co-opted officials who play cheerleader for spy agencies - go on these Sunday shows and they say: "Snowden was a traitor. He works against Americans. He works for the Chinese. Oh, wait, he left Hong Kong - he works for the Russians."

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

The horror genre is an extremely delicate thing. You can talk to filmmakers and even psychologists who've studied the genre, and even they don't understand what works or what doesn't work. More importantly, they don't understand why it works when it works.

Johnny Winter doesn't know the word 'subtlety.' But it works, it works.