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Workings Quotes (page 283)

I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer? Ray Bradbury
If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion Twyla Tharp
Steven Brust quote: "Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it."
Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it. Steven Brust
Benjamin Franklin quote: "... a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work...."
... a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work.... Benjamin Franklin
What have you done to it, Monkeyman? - he breathed. - Well, - said Arthur, - nothing in fact. It's just that I think ashort while ago it was trying to work out how to... - Yes? - Make me some tea. - That's right guys, - the computer sang out suddenly, - just copingwith that problem right now, and wow, it's a biggy. Be with you in awhile." It lapsed back into a silence that was only matched for sheerintensity by the silence of the three people staring at Arthur... Douglas Adams
Lao Tzu quote: "When the work is done, and one's name is becoming..."
When the work is done, and one's name is becoming distinguished, to withdraw into obscurity is the way of Heaven. Lao Tzu
Martin Luther quote: "It is not our work, but God's gift, that we now hate ourselves..."
It is not our work, but God's gift, that we now hate ourselves and our sinful lusts and follow after love. Martin Luther
Richard Bach quote: "You are never given a wish without also being given the power..."
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however. Richard Bach
It's the wrong choice, Gennie."Serena," Justin said warningly, but she turned on him with her eyes flashing and her voice low with exasperation."Damn it, Justin, she's miserable! There's nothing like a stubborn, pig-headed man to make a woman miserable, is there, Gennie?"With a half laugh, she dragged a hand through her hair. "No, I don't guess there is."That works both ways," Justin reminded her."And if the man's pig-headed enough," Serena went on precisely, "it's up to the woman to give him... Nora Roberts
World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. Everything enters something else. My days spill into light-years. This is why I can only pretend to be someone. And this is why I felt derived at first, working on these pages. I didn't know if it was me that was writing so much as someone I want to sound like. Don DeLillo
...anger's a requirement for the job. The only reason anybody decides to become and organiser. Well adjusted people find more relaxing work Barack Obama
Sorry, but retirement offends me. You don’t just stop fighting in the middle of a war because your legs hurt. So why do you get to stop working in the middle of your life just because your prostate hurts? That’s desertion. Stephen Colbert
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory. - from the introduction of the 1986 Norton edition Anthony Burgess
The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms. Maxine Hong Kingston
Jason Mraz quote: "And it's okay if you have to go away. Oh, just remember the..."
And it's okay if you have to go away. Oh, just remember the telephone works both ways((You and I Both)) Jason Mraz

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