Top 100 Do For Quotes
#1. Cartoons, often, that you do for the New Yorker don't appear for months afterwards, and the record for that is a cartoon that was bought by James Stevenson in 1987 and didn't appear until 2000.
Robert Mankoff
#2. If you respect your teacher, you do better. Respect is only good because it will help you. Real liberated people, what can you do for them? They've got everything. They are everything. They don't need to be worshipped or adored.
Frederick Lenz
#3. I wear short shorts. After 10 years of strenuous ballet, it's the least my legs can do for me.
Solange Knowles
#4. You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.
Martha Beck
#5. 'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.
Carl Lewis
#6. We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.
Boris Johnson
#7. Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done - occasionally what men have not done - thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action.
Amelia Earhart
#8. I want to be surprised and entertained by a movie, so that's what we're trying to do for the audience. Obviously, we also have to sell the film.
Christopher Nolan
#9. In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and foundations of all rational decisions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#10. I'm not stupid," I muttered lamely.
"Well, why else would you tell Alex to go anywhere? What will we do for eye candy now? Were you thinking of Nate at all? Were you thinking of me? I think you're incredibly selfish, Lila.
Sarah Alderson
#11. I've met so many people of my son's generation who think a sacrifice is when their satellite or Internet is out for a day and that the country owes them something. That old J.F.K. quote about 'what you can do for your country,' doesn't even seem to apply to so many people.
Steve Daines
#12. Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.
Robert Heller
#13. So while I can spin my fantasy whenever I wish, I'm afraid you wouldn't do for me."
Sarcasm dripped from her every word. "You're good at imagining, so pray imagine my heartbreak.
Christina Dodd
#14. I live in a blue-collar neighborhood, and if anyone knows what I do for a living, they don't seem to care.
George Pelecanos
#15. I smile and think; This is my job, this is what I do for a living, and its what I've always wanted
Liam Payne
#17. At this question, I felt a sharp rush of despair - for as bad as I felt there was nothing he could do for me, and from his face, I realized he knew that, too.
Donna Tartt
#18. I'm really, really happy with what I do for a living. I mean, that's what I consider work, like being on set, bringing a character to life and, you know, working with other actors and directors and stuff.
Gabourey Sidibe
#19. Nuclear apocalypse - who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.
Christian Bale
#20. No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.
Deana Carter
#21. First, know thine own ideal - spiritual, mental and material; not as to what ye would have others do, but what ye would do for others.
Edgar Cayce
#22. Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory, and learning.
John Ratey
#23. Think of working forever at something you love to do, for [the] one you love with all your heart, and never getting tired! We will never know weariness in heaven.
Billy Graham
#24. What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.
Giordano Bruno
#25. You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.
Maxim Gorky
#26. Absolutely nothing. That's what I'm going to do for two weeks. Not think. If I start to think, I'm going to think really hard about not thinking until I quit thinking.
James Dashner
#27. Music, it's an emotion; if you're just a puppet, how can you put your soul in what you do? For my part, I believe that I put my soul to it, so I get angry when people think that what I do is plastic.
Bill Kaulitz
#28. What I do for myself stays within me, what I do for others lasts a lifetime.
Marc Trestman
#29. Eve commanded her hostage to open the door and look calm. She didn't turn around again, but Beckett knew what she'd done. She'd crossed some line she'd drawn for herself. She'd said his name, kissed him, and saved him.
She'd done what he couldn't do for himself.
Debra Anastasia
#30. Everything you do, do for happiness, you will find that you are a great success.
Debasish Mridha
#31. Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason.
Wendy Mass
#32. I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I do - for my words are naught but thy own thoughts in sound and my deeds thy own hopes in action.
Khalil
#33. You rang, Mino- well, you're not really the Minor Master anymore, are you? What should I call you? (Asmodeus) Think of a polite term, demon. (Jericho) Mister Master it is. What can I do for you? (Asmodeus)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#34. More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
Albert Camus
#36. I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'
Randy Moss
#37. I would not like to be replaced by someone who immediately sets about undoing what I've tried to do for 25-26 years.
Antonin Scalia
#38. But men are funny about their wars, they act as if they own them, and perhaps they do, for I don't think women ever start them.
Pippa Goldschmidt
#39. Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health.
Michael Pollan
#40. If Isabelle Reagan can take a guy like me and turn him into someone worthy of respect then it's mind blowing to think what she can do for the rest of the world. What we could do for it together. We might be able to change it.
Melyssa Winchester
#41. I have always quested and still do for the Holy Grail, but I stopped looking in the earthen caves and in the stars. I started questing through the valleys and mountains of my own soul.
David Paul Kirkpatrick
#42. Forgiveness, quite frankly, is the most selfish thing you can do. Because it is the greatest thing you can do for yourself.
Caroline Myss
#43. Man, if they played the commercials for 'Murderball' as much as they do for 'Hustle & Flow,' 'Murderball' would blow up!
Mark Zupan
#44. You crush me with the things you do, I do for anything too ... each moment the more I love you.
Dave Matthews
#45. He would do things for he'd do for no one else, but while he'd empty the sky for her so she could spread her wings, fly, he would not set her free. She belonged to him, would always belong to him
Nalini Singh
#46. The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical world around us, than we do for ourselves and our own self images.
Frederick Lenz
#47. He sees me based on what I can do for him, not who I am. He has an image of me and he doesn't want to see beneath the image. You can't be with a man who is unwilling or unable to see the real you.
Cathy Lamb
#48. We ask children to do for most of a day what few adults are able to do for even an hour. How many of us, attending, say, a lecture that doesn't interest us, can keep our minds from wandering? Hardly any.
John Holt
#49. When you do things in a soft way, you make the other people believe they've thought up something to do for you, when actually you're directing them. Later, Ruth
Lisa See
#50. Morale is a little bit dimmed, is a bit affected by the redundancy program. That program had been planned for quite some time, and when I took over it was really left to me to make the final decision and it clearly was the right thing to do for the business.
David Edward Kirk
#51. You wouldn't believe what a few days in fishnets will do for the rest of your year.' --Lula, Westward to Strange
Ray Litt
#52. What you do for yourself is one thing. What you do for others is something else entirely.
Henry Rollins
#53. The activities we do for God are secondary. God is looking for people who long for communication with Him.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#54. The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.
Simon Sinek
#55. She wants you here as much as I do. For her it is to save her life. For me it is to have one.
Toni Morrison
#56. I love you, you know that? You're so selfless.
Don't paint me a saint, Gracie. I have alot of making up to do for the shit I've caused but I'm trying.
Annie Brewer
#57. I do what i do for love. Anything else is a form of slavery. A reduction of my humanity. Which is why i feel the moral liberty to search through minds.
Islam Atef Aly
#58. My parents were the ones who gave me the independence, who gave me the spark to do anything that you set your mind to, as all parents should do for their kids.
Marlee Matlin
#59. As long as it's making you happy and you're enjoying it, then you should never stop writing music. Whether it's going to take you somewhere, viewed by other people, or it's literally you in a bedroom at home, it should be something that you do for yourself.
Ella Henderson
#60. What can I do for you, Detective?' he said cheerily, smiling and nodding at Bailey.
What was I, chopped liver? I had a badge too. Maybe I should've shown it to him. Maybe I should've shown him my gun too.
Marcia Clark
#61. If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you're praying someone else will do for you.
Shannon L. Alder
#62. At this very moment with my girl in my arms, I feel like there's nothing I can't do for her, for us. - Duke
Stephanie Witter
#63. The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
#64. You know, it's never easy to understand why I do what I do. For other people, I mean.
Thom Yorke
#65. The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side
Roger Federer
#66. Every time we think about being happy again, it hurts to be alive.
Because it seems an inordinate thing for us to wish for.
And because we think that day will never come for us.
And that's why the only thing we can do for now ...
... is just try to get through each night.
Chica Umino
#67. Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.' Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you
Brian Tracy
#69. Everyone just wants to see what you can do for yourself. People think that just because I have some big ridiculous number on my myspace page that it's all easy for me. People are interested but I don't come home to labels waiting outside my house.
Drake
#70. What is it you do for your family? Aside from trying to put it in your sister, I mean?
Greg Rucka
#71. Hence it will not do for the Landlord to possess too fine a nature ... He must have no idiosyncracies, no particular bents or tendencies to this or that, but a general, uniform, and healthy development, such as his portly person indicates, offering himself equally on all sides to men.
Henry David Thoreau
#72. When someone loves you, there's nothing they won't do for you. When they stop loving you, there's nothing they will.
Matt Dunn
#73. The baptism of the spirit will do for you, what a phone booth did for Clark Kent, it will change you into a different being.
Rod Parsley
#74. Living isn't just about doing for yourself,but what you do for others as well.
Nelson Mandela
#75. Other people, some other writers, will win certain accolades or sell in far greater numbers than me - and I'm a legitimate best-selling author - but I live and die for the work. That's thrilling to me. It's thrilling that I do for others what certain writers did for me when I was a kid.
James Ellroy
#76. No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.
James Boswell
#77. Ask what you can do for influencers, not what influencers can do for you - develop relationships!
Laura Fitton
#78. If you really have humility when you love, there is only one thought: "What can I do for my beloved?"
Frederick Lenz
#79. That's what any decent mind ought to do for its owner when she lets it off the leash - just go bounding away into the long grass and bring back a really profound thought, laying it at her feet all furry and palpitating. C'mon now. Hey los'!
Jan Struther
#80. In my situation there are often things I need to do for the team, so when I get the chance to relax it's all I want to do.
Sidney Crosby
#82. No, sir. Go to hell sir. It's the best I can do for you sir.
Jack London
#83. It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
Moliere
#84. Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living.
Shannen Doherty
#85. People are basically screwed-up and often the best you can do for them is listen, hear the worst and then tell it's not so bad.
Michael Nava
#86. As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
Al Yankovic
#87. You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.
Michael Caine
#88. The things I do for love, it said. Bran screamed. The crow took to the air, cawing. Not that, it shrieked at him. Forget that, you do not need it now, put it aside, put it away. It landed on Bran's shoulder, and pecked at him, and the shining golden face was gone. Bran
George R R Martin
#89. I don't even really know what it is I do for a living - the level of insecurity is very, very high. You're making a lot of money, getting a lot of accolades and positive criticism for something where you don't even know what you're doing.
Shia Labeouf
#90. Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
T. Boone Pickens
#91. I will be forever grateful and forever in your debt. There is no greater deed or favor one man can do for another than to save his life. So grazi. Molto grazi, mi amico.
Peter Cimino
#92. All one can do for one's character in times like these, is to prove that one does not belong to these times.
Johann Gottfried Seume
#93. Blacks are supposed to rejoice whenever our way of life becomes more mainstream. We seldom do. For we see in it a sanctioning that can only be granted by white society. In other words: If you're white, it's all right. If you're black, step back.
Lena Williams
#94. I see that as usual I've gone on too long and that I'm running out of room, but I do hope that you are happy and well, and it's all a little less lonely out there than you may have feared. If there's anything I can do for you back here, or if I can help you in any way, please know that I will.
Donna Tartt
#95. Singing the songs, writing the lyrics, emotioning the words; that is all I can do for love.
M.F. Moonzajer
#96. The horse is a gift to us, to humanity. And for that, there comes responsibility. If the horse is gonna work for you and work with you, then the best thing I can do for the horse is to make it as good a life possible.
Buck Brannaman
#97. And whenever he asked himself that one question - what wouldn't he do for the welfare of his children - the answer was always the same. There was pretty much nothing he wouldn't do for his children's sake.
Bobby Adair
#98. No one HAS to do something he doesn't want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that's what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You'll have lots of company.
Hunter S. Thompson
#99. We put people in boring environments with nothing to do for hours on end, until suddenly they must respond quickly and accurately. Or we subject them to complex, high-workload environments, where they are continually interrupted while having to do multiple tasks
Don Norman
#100. It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.
Anna Katharine Green
