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Workings Quotes (page 193)

Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and..."
Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods! Friedrich Nietzsche
Demetri Martin quote: "The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way..."
The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way to say that is: God is a sneak Demetri Martin
If I should die," said I to myself, "I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd. Dan Simmons
What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant. C. S. Lewis
The hard core of morality and even of religion seems to me to be just what makes good comedy possible...Where there is no norm, nothing can be ridiculous, except for a brief moment of unbalanced provincialism in which we may laugh at the merely unfamiliar. Unless there is something about which the author is never ironical, there can be no true irony in the work. C. S. Lewis
James T. Farrell quote: "If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always..."
If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you. James T. Farrell
John Irving quote: "It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious."
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious. John Irving
I met a traveller from an antique land. Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone. Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown. And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command. Tell that its sculptor well those passions read. Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear:'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and... Percy Bysshe Shelley
I don't think you should be an Auror, Harry," said Luna unexpectedly. Everybody looked at her. "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working to bring down the Ministry of Magic from within using a mixture of dark magic and gum disease. J. K. Rowling
And how about the "Daily Odes to the Benefactor"? Who can read them without bowing his head reverently before the selfless labor of this Number of Numbers? Or the terrible blood-red beauty of the "Flowers of Judicial Verdicts"? Or the immortal tragedy, "Lat for Work"? Or the bedside book of "Stanzas on Sexual Hygiene"? Yevgeny Zamyatin
John Milton quote: "God does not need man nor his won works."
God does not need man nor his won works. John Milton
Like the rest of the devout, he was incapable of understanding that the Holy One's face is never turned away but constantly looks down on all creatures with a beneficence that they are too busy apologizing for their unworthiness and performing their good works and assuring Heaven of their unfailing devotion to notice. Frederick Buechner
Now if you're not „hot”, you are expected to work on it until you are. It's like when you renovate a house and you're legally required to leave just one of the original walls standing. If you don't have a good body you have down to a neutral shape, then bolt on some breast implants, replace your teeth, dye you hair, and call yourself the Playmate of the Year. How do we survive this? How do we teach our daughters and our gay sons that they are good enough the way they are? We have to lead... Tina Fey
Russell Brand quote: "Animals, children, and the working class comprise the company..."
Animals, children, and the working class comprise the company in which I'll feel most at ease. Russell Brand
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "To love does not mean to look at each other, but to work..."
To love does not mean to look at each other, but to work together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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