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Quotes About Works

I wanted to keep things as normal as possible for the trainees, so I led my usual morning class. I called it Magic Problem-Solving 101. The trainees called it Whatever Works.
~ Rick Riordan
Besides," I said, "you don't want my soul. It's really small. I don't use it much. I doubt it even works anymore.
~ Rick Riordan
You know, Helen,' Mr Vance said, 'this is a strange tactic you're adopting here. Favoritism, like any other form of corruption, works best when it remains unacknowledged.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Su mente era como una casa que había ido amueblando durante toda su vida. Las mesas y las camas eran las canciones que sabía cantar, las obras que había visto, las catedrales que había admirado y los libros que había leído en inglés, francés y latín.
~ Ken Follett
I fear liars, and I fear tricksters, and worst I fear the bitter truth. And so I rule my country well. Because only fear rules men. Nothing else works. Nothing else lasts long enough.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Without Prayer nothing good is done. God's works are done with our hands joined, and on our knees. Even when we run, we must remain spiritually kneeling before Him.
~ Luigi Orione
The works of God are great mysteries and may truly always be hidden from us, however it is not wrong to lead your own personal enquiry through your prayers to the Lord.
~ Lady Jane Grey
I would like to emphasize again that right prayer leads to right action, that faith without works is dead. An excellent way to put thoughts into action is to write a letter for peace.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never," growled thunder, "let's give him the works.
~ William Steig
Nothing we design or make ever really works??? Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.
~ David Pye
Why should you boast? You are not saved by your works but by the grace of God.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.
~ Noam Chomsky
Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.
~ Margaret Oliphant
I'm constantly running across comments from developers who don't seem to understand that the code already tells us how it works; we need the comments to tell us why it works. Code comments
~ Jeff Atwood
This is the real gift of human language and our desire to connect: that it works.
~ Jeff Tweedy
These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
Enforcement isn't about big government or small government. It's about whether government works and who it works for.
~ Elizabeth Warren
and seriously considered whether a man was really better for reading anything at all, let alone these labyrinthine works of theology that served only to make the clear and bright seem muddied and dim, by clothing everything they touched in words obscure and shapeless as mist, far out of the comprehension of ordinary men, of whom the greater part of the human creation is composed.
~ Ellis Peters
They went on to support their thesis by citing authors with esoteric names, whose works they themselves had not read, a fact which enabled them to speak about them penetratingly.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Many thought it was a fool's errand - that the browser companies were never going to listen to us. Others argued that, 'Users don't care if you use Web standards.' Well, of course they don't. They just know that your site works better.
~ Jeffrey Zeldman
We want to build this sport all over the world and it absolutely, positively works in the U.K.
~ Dana White
The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood. The way it works is that people get an idea you could possibly do something, but there's a one-in-a-hundred chance that it could get made.
~ Nick Cave
I'm not convinced that abstinence-only education works.
~ Barbara Delinsky
One of the coolest things Twickenham Fest does is to commission new works.
~ Susanna Phillips