Quotes About Works

God never wrought miracle, to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.

I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

Movies have a way of distilling moments in our culture, and 'Gravity' may be the defining film for the lost-in-space year of 2013: Nothing works.

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 the force of the blow, but the authority with which it is delivered, quoth the raven.

So you see, faith by itself isn't enough. Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless. —James 2:17

For, inasmuch as the good works that men do while they live the virtuous life be slain by the Sin following, and also since all the good works that men do while they be in deadly Sin are utterly dead as for to have the life everlasting, well may the man who does no good works sing that new French song, "I have wasted all my time and my labor.

I am sorry to say that it is a common practice with romancers to announce their hero as a man of extraordinary genius, and to leave his works entirely to the reader's imagination; so that at the end of the book you whisper to yourself ruefully that but for the author's solemn preliminary assurance you should hardly have given the gentleman credit for ordinary good sense.

But also, it's a wonderful thing for children to see the birthing of puppies, to see nature at its best when it works and to have the experience of the puppies.

It's like, 'How can I reverse engineer what it takes to gain followers on a platform?' And I'm curious about how it works. And I'm the same way with people. I'm curious about what makes them tick.

My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

Some honored me by giving me the secret of their works

Sometimes time actually works against you if you refuse to face the relevant issues and explain to the public what is at stake.

A hidden Bliss is at the root of things. A mute Delight regards Time's countless works: To house God's joy in things Space gave wide room, To house God's joy in self our souls were born.

Breathing, for example, was never taken for granted, since, half the time, thanks to the many chemical works and refineries, it was nearly impossible.

Steinmark. Spoken to her but once! Why, man, I thought the preliminary work was done. Belleroach. Preliminaries are not adapted to the taking of widows. That tedious blockading business, that sitting down before the works, is only applicable to maiden fortification. I have spoken to Madame Brudo but once, and then I passed myself off as — an aide-de-camp of the Archduke's.

All those who have vantage points in their spirit... ; all those who are masters of their language; all those for whom words have a meaning; all those for whom there exist sublimities in the soul and currents of thought; all those who are the spirit of the times, and have named these currents of thought -- and I am thinking of their precise works, of that automatic grinding that delivers their spirit to the winds -- are pigs.

there appears to be a certain difference among the ends: some ends are activities, others are certain works apart from the activities themselves, and in those cases in which there are certain ends apart from the actions, the works are naturally better than the activities.

And history could never take from him the privilege of being the first of all mankind to gaze upon the works of an alien civilization.

Even theological works can be read spiritually, once one has achieved enough proficiency. Theology and spirituality make up two sides of the same coin. They are different ways of attending to the same reality.