Top 100 Done Is Quotes
#1. Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
Fred Allen
#2. A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
Daniel Webster
#3. It's no use crying over spilt milk'
*It means that what has happened is over and can not be changed, so clean up the mess and get on with life*
What's done, is done.
James Howell
#4. But when it gets dark, I'm off the hook. The day is officially rolled up and put away. I'm free to watch movies or stare at the wall, no longer holding myself accountable for what I might or might not have gotten done because the time for getting something done is over until tomorrow.
Abigail Thomas
#5. I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.
Ian McKellen
#6. Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel.
George MacDonald
#7. It doesn't matter now. What's done is done. It's in the past, so let's leave it there. Plus, if we could rewind time and fix our mistakes, we'd never learn from them. Right?
Abi Ketner
#8. In principle. what is done is to take the nucleus out of a cell with a very fine micro-pipette or needle and introduce it into an egg. That had been done with amphibians a long time ago, and then there was a long pause of many years before people were clever enough to make that work in the sheep.
John Gurdon
#9. But it is an orchestra," I say. "It's an imitation orchestra - an orchestrion, an orchestrina - whatever you call it, it does a terrible job! All you've done is turn a sublime group achievement, a human act, into an inferior egotistical solo -
Kim Stanley Robinson
#10. The only thing worse than regretting the things you've done is regretting the things you didn't do.
Samantha Leahy
#11. Remorse for what is done is useless.
Philo
#12. When one peels back an onion, all they have done is reveal a smaller onion.
Elizabeth James
#13. Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image
Dean Koontz
#14. To claim - to claim repeatedly - that you are innocent of what it is claimed by others that you have done, or might have done, or are in some quarters strongly suspected of having done, is never enough unless others, numberous others, will say it for you.
Joyce Carol Oates
#15. The work I've done is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing.
Philip Glass
#16. The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.
William Kirby
#17. The best person to get something done is a busy person.
Mark Burnett
#18. History has shown us that 'Get Things Done' is mindless liberal code for passing ineffective legislation and expanding government for government's sake.
Michelle Malkin
#19. The reward for work well-done is more work.
Jim Butcher
#20. I get that
but why replace him with this guy? I mean, Dick Clark did American Bandstand. All this guy's done is deny that he's gay.
Keith R.A. DeCandido
#22. Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.
William Shakespeare
#23. Any gospel which says only what you must do and never announces what Christ has done is no gospel at all.
Kevin DeYoung
#25. In our film business, they say it's recession-proof, but there's no such thing. I think what it's done is there's been an increase in demand for high-quality product. If you understand the business side of it, there's a way to balance it.
Sandra Bullock
#26. It seems to be the easiest thing in the world these days to make scurrilous accusations against Muslims, and in my case it directly impacts on my relief work and damages my reputation as an artist. The harm done is often difficult to repair.
Cat Stevens
#27. The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.
Elijah Wood
#28. Everything he's done is clean as a whistle. He's never not only broken any law, he's never done anything wrong.
Chris Matthews
#29. If I lose you, Eva," he said hoarsely, "I have nothing. Everything I've done is so I don't lose you.
Sylvia Day
#31. The person who says it can't be done is almost always interrupted by the person who is doing it.
Shannon L. Alder
#32. The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.
Michael Bloomberg
#33. What's done is done. You've got to move on. I don't want to say anything bad about the mother of my children.
Peter Andre
#34. Nothing seems to last. But the bullet. The bullet is constant. The bullet is always there. You wait in line, that's all. And when it's your turn to ride the bullet, maybe you ride, maybe you run. Either way it comes to the same thing. Fun is fun. And done is done
Stephen King
#35. I'll name check Radiohead on this
they've done a pretty suave marketing plan on this new record. I think generally it's been a pretty cool thing, but what they've done is used those (sales) numbers in a way that they can spin them anyway they want cause you don't know what they are.
Trent Reznor
#37. I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.
Gary Paulsen
#38. I love 'Airplane,' the 'Naked Gun' films; everything the Zucker brothers have done is just awesome.
Drake Bell
#39. It was too late to think about what could have been or what should have been. What's done is done. The past was in the past and there was no changing it.
Jason Medina
#41. My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.
Thierry Henry
#42. If what you've done is stupid, but it works..then it really isn't all that stupid.
David Letterman
#43. Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
William Glasser
#44. How to teach people to do what hasn't been done is a great riddle.
Peter Thiel
#45. What we should have done is kept the same team that played in the '95 World Series. Those trades (Eddie Murray & Carlos Baerga) caused a lot of chaos in the organization. I didn't feel like we were moving in the right direction.
Albert Belle
#46. Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence, including insecurities that do not torment normal people, only chronic nonconformists, many of whom end up as writers after having failed in other undertakings.
Isabel Allende
#47. Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation ... about where you fit in society.
David Bowie
#48. You've got to just follow your heart and do your best work. For better or worse, I have followed my heart. There is no doubt in my mind or heart that everything I've done is exactly what I intended to do.
Dan Fogelberg
#49. What I have done is to show the importance for the working of the economic system of what may be termed the institutional structure of production.
Ronald Coase
#50. What television has done is it's given me a stepping stone to get to some other countries and really wild destinations throughout this world, which perhaps I would have had to struggle to get to.
Steve Irwin
#51. A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#52. You can choose to listen to one end of the spectrum or the other on Twitter, just like you can on television. But hopefully what we've done is given a voice to that broad middle ground.
Dick Costolo
#53. I tend not to look back. What's done is done, good, bad or indifferent. I'm much more concerned with whatever's coming next.
Simon Furman
#54. To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.
Mark Caine
#55. Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.
Martin Luther
#56. The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
Voltaire
#57. Cuba is a wonderful country. What Castro's done is superb.
Helen Caldicott
#58. Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
William Howard Taft
#59. You can live your life in "should" and never change anything. What's done is done. We buried our dead. I went home. Manuel went to Shadowed Hills to hate me in peace.
Seanan McGuire
#60. Suppose that climate change is not real and all we do is adopt green technologies, which our economy and our technology is perfectly capable of. Then all we've done is given our kids a cleaner world.
John McCain
#61. It's no use crying over spilt milk
What's done, is done.
James Howell
#62. What I love about what digital entertainment has done is that they've given real creative freedom to folks like myself who are doing really groundbreaking stuff.
Morgan Spurlock
#64. If I'd been on the Remain side I would have tried to have seen the best in Europe and tried to explain that. Instead, what they've done is endlessly try and talk up what they see as the weaknesses of Britain and they aren't there. That's a total mistake.
Boris Johnson
#65. No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.
Woodrow Wilson
#66. What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.
Marianne Williamson
#67. No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.
Joe Slovo
#68. Genuine thanksgiving is a response to both who God is and what He has done, is doing, and will do.
Joyce Meyer
#69. No one else 'makes us angry.' We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude to a test.
Jim Rohn
#70. What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.
William Shakespeare
#71. I think I'm like The Beatles - I think each one I've done is better than the last one. And hopefully I'll never make a Let It Be.
Ian Brown
#72. In all cases where work is produced by heat, a quantity of heat proportional to the work done is expended; and inversely, by the expenditure of a like quantity of work, the same amount of heat may be produced.
Rudolf Clausius
#73. Someone is always fighting for something, and they're always fighting for something better. Now, how that gets done is the true question.
Edwin Hodge
#74. Daydreams are doable. The turn-on is not in scale, spectacle, or cost. It's in the doing. Anything you haven't done is an adventure. Wanting to is the principal requirement. If you can do and want to, don't not. In short, while alive, live.
Malcolm Forbes
#75. Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.
Denzel Washington
#76. You'll often see posts about people beating the CAP theorem. They haven't. What they have done is create a system where some capabilities are CP, and some are AP. The mathematical proof behind the CAP theorem holds. Despite many attempts at school, I've learned that you don't beat math.
Sam Newman
#77. You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.
Ramana Maharshi
#78. A person who is seeking to feel justification for some action might move from "What you've done angers me" to "What you've done is wrong." Popular justifications include the moral high ground of righteous indignation and the more simple equation known by its biblical name: an eye for an eye.
Gavin De Becker
#79. Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God. I commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith.
Joan Of Arc
#81. Every since I got sick, all I've done is think about how everyone else is feeling.
Amy Reed
#82. Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.
Celia Green
#83. Memory is identity ... You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death.
Julian Barnes
#84. Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.
Andy Summers
#85. I think one of the worst things schools have done is taken out all of the stuff like art, music, woodworking, sewing, cooking, welding, auto-shop. All these things you can turn into careers. How can you get interested in these careers if you don't try them on a little bit?
Temple Grandin
#87. It frequently happens that offenses are committed when the offender is not aware of it. Something he has said or done is misconstrued or misunderstood. The offended one treasures in his heart the offense, adding to it such other things as might give fuel to the fire and justify his conclusions ...
Spencer W. Kimball
#88. The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.
Norm MacDonald
#89. If you're not ministering and using your gifts in the church, then something God wants done is being ignored.
Craig Groeschel
#91. The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them
Benjamin Jowett
#92. Punishing people who don't know what they've done is barbaric"
" forgive them for know not what they do
Milan Kundera
#93. What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?
R.C. Sproul
#94. I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.
Madeleine Albright
#95. The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.
Anne Lamott
#96. The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.
Bobby Seale
#97. What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone.
John Prendergast
#98. I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.
Lawrence Kasdan
#99. If you think everything you've done is great, you're probably dumb.
Louis C.K.
#100. There is a certain mentality that believes in covering up. They believe in it with the sincerity and fanaticism that members of some religious groups believe in the divinity of Jesus. Because, for some people, the necessity to continue covering up even after the damage is done is all-important.
Stephen King
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