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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.

It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

It is possible to take energy from someone else. This is usually done in close, emotional sexual relationships.

It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.

It is ridiculous to sue the president on a Wednesday because he oversteps the law, as he has done a dozen times illegally and unconstitutionally, and then on a Thursday say that he should overstep the law, contradict the law that passed in 2008 and deal with this himself.

It is really not what we have in our hand that gets the job done, but it is God's power filling what we have in our hand.

It is so painful watching yourself act, particularly because you can't do anything about it, it's all done and dusted.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the consciousness of its ability to do a thing.Still less is it content with doing it. It must both know and show how it was done.

It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute.

It is the perfect wrong time for Jeremy to do to Mirabelle what she had done to him - call him up for a quick fix - because;, in a sense, she is now betrothed. Her first date with someone who treated her well obligates her to faithfulness, at least until the relationship is explored.

it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.

It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice

It is this impulse to change the quality of experience that I recognize as central to creation. . . . Out of all that could be done, you choose one thing. What that one thing is, nothing else can tell you--you come at it over unmarked snow.

It is true Christians have done terrible things throughout history. But they've always been acting in opposition to their Christian faith. There are no New Testament verses that say, Kill unbelievers.

It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.

It is utterly inappropriate for the president Donald Trump to be weighing in the design and acquisitions process of carrier ships at this level. Had a Democratic president done this kind of micromanagement, all the more so in public, Republican defense wonks would have been apoplectic. Instead ... crickets.

It is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.

It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.

It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.

It must be easy to be a liberal. When your policies don't work, you just change the goal posts and say we haven't done enough - and then demand more.

It means that Tao doesn't force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.

I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.

...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.

It only seems impossible until it's done.

I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done.

I took the game seriously. It was my profession. My teammates also took losing hard. We would all sit in the locker room after losing a big game and talk about how we could have done something differently to change the outcome

I took my dog for a walk... all the way from New York to Florida... I said to him "There now you're done.

It only seems jarring when you look back on the work I've done. I think if you had to map that out at the beginning and you said, "Right, sit down, this is what you're going to be doing," you'd probably freak out. But I'm someone who really enjoys not being himself. So if you consider that, then it all sort of makes sense. And I just think that's the job of an actor. I guess that's the variation that you're talking about. It's probably a byproduct of just constantly looking for something different, because that's what I feel like I'm supposed to do.

It ought to be done by the elected officials themselves because they have the credibility. And it's not like we aren't willing to help.

It really has been a blessing because you can go and look at our other movies we've done in a studio system. We didn't get to make the movie that we wanted to make. We made the movie that someone else wanted us to make. That can be a little disheartening, a lot disheartening. While there have been struggles, it doesn't matter which table you're at because you're going to have obstacles, but I kind of like being able to make the movie that you want to make.

I tremendously admire, and I think we all should, the great work done by our commander in chief, our president George Bush...

I train about four or five times a week. I guess I am addicted to it. I also do a lot of martial arts. More than I have done in awhile. I like to go back to martial arts because it makes me feel good.

I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.

I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready.

I try not to look at my schedule for the week because I'll get so overwhelmed. Every day, there are multiple things to be done and 10 things I don't end up accomplishing.