Working It Quotes
527 quotes by 465 authors
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Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right…
— Ronald Reagan
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That’s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we’d like to think we’ve grown beyond. But…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.
— Dean Koontz
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At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point,…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,'…
— James Salter
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It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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When writing goes painfully, when it’s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then naturally one ought…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.
— Swami Vivekananda
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This is the greatest lesson a child can learn. It is the greatest lesson anyone can learn. It has been the greatest lesson I have…
— Edward Kennedy
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It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the joke, and she…
— Tao Lin
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The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine
— Karl Lagerfeld
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Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't…
— Bill Gates
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You forget: I have an addictive personality. I'm addicted to you. Somehow I think you could do all sorts of bad things to me, and…
— Richelle Mead
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Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It's like making a hard core adult film, and then editing it so…
— Jeremy Clarkson
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Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species
— E. O. Wilson
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Ow do you knock out a Denizen?" asked Suzy. "I tried it myself once or twice, but just hitting them never works." "It is not…
— Garth Nix
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Truth is the same always. Whoever ponders it will get the same answer. Buddha got it. Patanjali got it. Jesus got it. Mohammed got it.…
— Swami Satchidananda
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I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum…
— C.S. Lewis
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Katniss?" He drops my hand and I take a step, as if to catch my balance. "It was all for the Games," Peeta says. "How…
— Suzanne Collins
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The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and…
— Patti Smith
Who Wrote These Working It Quotes
465 authors contributed a total of 527 Working It Quotes, led by these top contributors: