Performed Quotes

457 quotes by 406 authors

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment. — Dave Barry
Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result… — Nikola Tesla
No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act… — Wayne Dyer
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.… — Samuel Johnson
Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to… — David McCullough
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a… — Samuel Johnson
The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this… — William James
It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried. — Francis Bacon
Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of… — Benjamin Franklin
The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity. — John Shelby Spong
When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award: I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most… — Alfred Hitchcock
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims that Jesus Christ is the Son of God in the most literal sense. The body in… — Ezra Taft Benson
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the… — Peter Quennell
A review of his work: His music soon spread throughout Europe, and he was invited to America were he performed the Piano Concerto. He would… — Unknown Author
On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I… — Niccolo Paganini
If the culprits are Muslim, they have twisted the teachings of Islam. Whoever performed, or is behind, the terrorist attacks in the United States of… — Muhammad Ali
My son, you are now flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone. By the ceremony performed this day, every drop of white blood… — Unknown Author
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to… — Ezra Pound

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