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Quotes About Works

Por ahora, sólo nuestras palabras son propias de titantes, pero nuestras obras son de hormigas y topos. Incluso las termitas nos pueden dar lecciones de grandeza. El hombre moderno, a pesar de su jactancia, piensa como Gulliver y no se da cuenta que vive al nivel de Liliput.
~ Giovanni Papini
The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
~ Karl Jaspers
Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.
~ William Wordsworth
As thou know not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou know not the works of what makes all.
~ Compton Gage
The wisdom of man can only produce works on a human level. Only the Wisdom of God can realize things divine, and it is to divine heights that it destines us.
~ Father Jacques Philippe
We are the natural nurturers of the Earth Mother. The Earth Mother needs our help, she needs our prayers. We need to educate the women of the world that prayer works.
~ Agnes Baker Pilgrim
From his very first works, it was clear that Henri Sauguet would bring spontaneity, romance, and a nonacademic approach back to modern music.
~ Christian Dior
With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together.
~ Nile Rodgers
People appreciate a good product, a stable system. They want to communicate easily and use a product that just works.
~ Jan Koum
My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.
~ Zach Johnson
Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.
~ Thomas Carlyle
All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.
~ Hermann Hesse
God's will is that no bounds should be set to His works.
~ Teresa of Avila
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.
~ Terry James
He who has more learning than goodness is like a tree with many branches and few roots, which the first wind throws down; whilst he whose works are greater than his knowledge is like a tree with many roots and fewer branches, which all the winds of heaven cannot uproot.
~ The Talmud
On the day of judgment, it will be demanded of us not what we have read, but what we have done.
~ Thomas a Kempis
The spirit which is pure, sincere, and steadfast, is not distracted though it hath many works to do, because it doth all things to the honour of God, and striveth to be free from all thoughts of self-seeking.
~ Thomas a Kempis
BEDE. (ubi sup.) Repent, therefore, and believe; that is, renounce dead works; for of what use is believing without good works? The merit of good works does not, however, bring to faith, but faith begins, that good works may follow.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Also pertinent to these spirits is the execution of divine works which are done outside the order of nature, for these are most sublime among the divine ministrations... And if there be anything else that is universal and primary in the carrying out of divine ministrations, it is proper to assign it to this order.
~ Thomas Aquinas
All God's works are still in a sense symbols of God. Do we not, as I urged, still account it a merit to recognize a certain inexhaustible significance, "poetic beauty" as we name it, in all natural objects whatsoever?
~ Thomas Carlyle
Paraffin never works. I have to do this. The police helicopters. And I pull the trigger. 30 IN MY FATHER'S house are many mansions. Of course, when I pulled the trigger, I died. Liar.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Zembla is a site devoted to the life and works of author, translator, and lepidopterist.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
That aura brought his works on Eurasianism massive popularity at a time when there was a hunger for dissident literature, and when any suppressed works automatically gained a reputation for authenticity and truth. He
~ Charles Clover
No hay compensación para una actitud o modo de pensar rebelde. Ninguna cantidad de buenas obras o entrega económica puede compensar la realidad de que usted esté en desobediencia. Lo que cosecha de esta actitud es una continua agitación interior. No hay paz para el corazón rebelde.
~ Charles F. Stanley