To Do Quotes

#1. We think being a Christian means to go to church on Sunday and trying to be good through the week. Now I see it means suffering, being willing to let the hard things happen to you, so that God can use us to do His work on this earth!

Kimberly L. Smith

#2. Science can never be a closed book. It is like a tree, ever growing, ever reaching new heights. Occasionally the lower branches, no longer giving nourishment to the tree, slough off. We should not be ashamed to change our methods; rather we should be ashamed never to do so.

Charles V. Chapin

#3. Safety Tip: Over the years I have learned that tackling the hard stuff in the morning is the most productive way to start your day. After the hard stuff is done, you get to do some fun stuff later, and this allows you to be more productive.

John Richard Pierce

#4. I'm a lucky boy! I could be holding a gun in Afghanistan. There's boys out there doing what they've got to do, and there's people digging holes, and there's people driving buses. And there's nothing wrong with that.

Ray Winstone

#5. I get asked to do stupid things like panel shows and talk shows and things.

Chris Lilley

#6. I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.

James Lipton

#7. I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#8. I was writing Diamonds and Rust' and it had nothing to do with what it turned out to be. I don't remember what it is, but I think I was writing a song. It was literally interrupted by a phone call, and it just took another curve and it came out to be what it was.

Joan Baez

#9. My age has so little to do with my image of myself because at a certain point, the number just didn't fit how I felt. It has become irrelevant to me. I just don't feel like that number is representative of my spirit, of my energy or my anything!

Christie Brinkley

#10. I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

Parker Stevenson

#11. The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and stepfather; they were like, If you are going to do this, we'd rather you did this with us.

Matt Damon

#12. Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form.

Georges Braque

#13. Every time I learn a new thing to do on my computer, I have to write it down so that I can remember it.

Betty Parsons

#14. There is no good or evil. We classify things into good and evil because we are currently unable to solve the two problems of the world: death and dearth. If there ever comes a time when we can solve these problems, we won't be required to do this anymore.

Andreas Laurencius

#15. My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would.

Jonas Salk

#16. My biggest problem was to get the coaches to understand that I was a runner, and I wanted to prepare myself based upon the calisthenics I did and get myself ready. For example, I used my forearm when I ran the ball, so I didn't want to do pushups because I wanted my forearms to heal.

Jim Brown

#17. If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.

Gao Xingjian

#18. I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well.

Pat Nixon

#19. The next time I had nothing to do, I'd have to get a book on testosterone-driven behavior.

Richelle Mead

#20. What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.

Reynolds Price

#21. When you do television, there's more to do, and when you do new television, there's a lot more to do, especially when you don't have partner. I miss not having that person.

Adam Carolla

#22. I was in a university prep school in Canada, and the way that particular place worked was, you chose at a very young age what you were going to do with the rest of your life. Mine was law.

Leslie Hope

#23. I am doing what I love to do.

Sidney Crosby

#24. I have no gospel to preach to the self-righteous, no, not a word of it. Jesus Christ himself came not to call the righteous, and I am not going to do what He did not do.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#25. On the weekend, I have a gym in my community. I try to do cardio. You just turn on some junk TV, and you don't realize what you're doing, and I love that.

Khloe Kardashian

#26. It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.

Gianni Versace

#27. We have a lifetime ahead of us to decide what we're going to do. I love you; heart and soul, and we're going to grow old together. We'll make things right and find our way, no matter how long it takes or where life takes us.

Ella Dominguez

#28. I was, and still am, a dramatic rider. I believe that there's no point in doing something if you aren't going to do it with all of your heart.

Alessandra Torre

#29. There's so much other work love has to do in the world.

Rebecca Solnit

#30. I spent a year in Professor Baker's famous class at Harvard. There, too, I learned some things that were useful to me-particularly what not to do. Not to take ten lines, for instance, to say something that can be said in one line.

Eugene O'Neill

#31. Mahlia just waited. She was good at that. When you were a castoff, it didn't do any good trying to talk to people, but sometimes, if you just kind of waited them out, people would get uncomfortable and feel like they had to do something.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#32. My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

Gillian Flynn

#33. See, I've had this notion about you and me since you was seventeen. I shouldn't have expected you to read my mind or wait till I was ready to do somethin' about it. I am sorry for that."
Ben smirked. "You're a little slow on the draw there. I was ten when I got that same notion.

Eli Easton

#34. I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some British scientists at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb.]

Lise Meitner

#35. Everyone who sits on a sofa watching 'Match of the Day' is a top soccer expert, as you know. So if you start to worry about such people reading your story and saying, 'That'd never happen' you're going to freeze up. You're writing fiction, and your characters can do whatever you need them to do.

Mal Peet

#36. I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.

Bill Hybels

#37. Love is ... you get confused and you do stuff you don't mean to do-and you just-you hate yourself and sometimes you don't even want to love the person you do because it would be so much easier if you didn't.But you just-you just do.

Elizabeth Scott

#38. We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don't know what to do.

Tao Lin

#39. Liam, shut up. I'm trying to do an interview

Niall Horan

#40. What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.

Lester Bowie

#41. You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.

Dave Blood

#42. Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.

Dorothea Lange

#43. Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money

Keith Richards

#44. I'm well in touch with my family, my children. I keep them on my answer phone, so if I want to hear one of their voices, all I have to do is punch it up and it will be there.

Davy Jones

#45. I remembered my father's speech about what Jack was capable of and wasn't; he'd said, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HOW MUCH JACK LOVES YOU. I thought about all the girls he'd stopped loving; it was like he had a timer, and at a certain point it buzzed.

Melissa Bank

#46. I hate to do what I'm told, that's why I'm not good at 9-to-5s.

Beth Ditto

#47. There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do with writing.

T. R. Pearson

#48. I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.

Steven Hatfill

#49. My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

Kareena Kapoor Khan

#50. If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.

Janice Markowitz

#51. A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.

Marc Andreessen

#52. You never know what you can do until you have to do it.

Betty Ford

#53. Slowly, and in spite of anything we Americans do or do not do, it looks a little as if you and some other good people are going to have to answer the old question of whether you want to keep your country unshackled by taking even more definite steps to do so

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#54. Strength wasn't about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it.

Karen Marie Moning

#55. Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children.

Jonathan Haidt

#56. Sometimes there are good reasons to do bad things.

Gena Showalter

#57. I'm glad to have shown myself able to do other things rather than people thinking, 'Oh, he'll just do the same as his dad.' Dad was a brilliant actor, but it just so happened he was five foot five and a half, fat and bald.

Rory Kinnear

#58. If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'

C.S. Lewis

#59. We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.

John McCain

#60. Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.

Frederick Lenz

#61. There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

#62. If you are willing to go an Infinite distance to do what you are born to do, the way is opened, for You.

L.P. Johnson

#63. I love whiskey, and I'm a big fan of 'Mad Men,' so anything that Don Draper does, I like to do. But I want Don Draper to get back to where he was in the first season. I like him married and gallivanting around.

Charles Kelley

#64. I know that I want to do my one-man show eventually, and that would talk about my life and about how football inspires me. I would love to do Shakespeare again, but in London this time. I'm pretty much open to receive the right opportunities with the right people.

Eddie George

#65. Singing and dancing will never grow old for me - I'd like to do that until I'm ... actually, I think I'd like to drop dead onstage. I think that'd be just great.

Blythe Danner

#66. We all have the power to change the world ... It's just the person who is willing to do something about it who will.

Tanner Di Bella

#67. Yet I understood the poetry of such mind games one day when, attempting to ask for my glasses (lunettes), I was asked what I wanted to do with the moon (lune).

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#68. I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing to do their part. But then I have to do my part and give them a sound and a voice that they believe in enough to keep going.

Elizabeth Strout

#69. Always good to remember when you're making art. You don't have to like it, just be ready to do the next thing.

Neil Gaiman

#70. If I wished to shake this tree with my hands, I should not be able to do so.
But the wind, which we do not see, troubles and bends it as it lists. We are worst bent and troubled by invisible hands.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#71. Laura said faintly, 'I thought God takes care of us.'

'He does,' Pa said, 'so far as we do what's right. And He gives us a conscience and brains to know what's right. But He leaves it to us to do as we please. That's the difference between us and everything else in creation.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#72. Strong emotions are present in all people. Without feeling, we would not be human. It's unnatural for man to hide what he's feeling, though if taught to do so, he can learn. Love teaches a man to show what he is feeling. Love never presupposes that it can be discerned or felt without expression ...

Leo Buscaglia

#73. God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.

George MacDonald

#74. I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.

Stephen Greenblatt

#75. If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do.

Muhammad Yunus

#76. I used to love looking at a recipe, getting all the bits and pieces in the shops, getting them ready and prepared ... I don't really have the time to do that anymore.

Brian O'Driscoll

#77. Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to do.

Ralph Fletcher

#78. The paintings have a lot to do with the idea of seeing and doing, and the relationship between your hand and your eye, and the object.

Malcolm Morley

#79. You don't judge me, you don't try and make it better. You just let me feel bad while making me feel really good . . . I want to do that for you, too.

Jay Crownover

#80. You can always find time to do the thing you really, really want to do.

Jennifer Rowe

#81. I always wanted to do something that revolves around the darker side of sex, the pressure of it.

Timo Tjahjanto

#82. I was involved in Occupy Wall Street as a participant and poster artist. 'Shell Game' is an attempt to do something bigger, to use whatever artistic powers I have to explore the excitements and betrayals of that year.

Molly Crabapple

#83. He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.

George R R Martin

#84. I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

Phil Anselmo

#85. I don't want you to do as I do, but do as I say!

C.C. Hunter

#86. A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on.

Dexter Gordon

#87. We can't have - we can't have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of people in Arizona. They want the federal government to step up and deal with this problem once and for all, and that's what we want to do.

David Axelrod

#88. I believe that the material doesn't need to be strong to be used to build a strong structure. The strength of the structure has nothing to do with strength of the material.

Shigeru Ban

#89. He felt him transfixed, captured, nailed by his vow to the hard wood of the impossible thing he had to do.

Elizabeth Goudge

#90. I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Benigno Aquino III

#91. I'm quite interested in adapting some of James Herbert's early work. 'The Dark' ... But I was always desperate to do an adaptation of 'War of the Worlds' until the Beard stole it from underneath my feet.

Neil Marshall

#92. In a sense, these people were the vanguard of a well-to-do and well-educated proletariat of the future, boxed up in these expensive apartments with their elegant furniture and intelligent sensibilities, and no possibility of escape.

J.G. Ballard

#93. The first is, How We Do It Here. "The second is, How We Recruit, Hire, and Train People to Do It Here. "The Third is, How We Manage It Here. "The Fourth is, How We Change It Here. "And the 'It' I'm referring to is the stated purpose of your business.

Anonymous

#94. I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action ...

Winifred Holtby

#95. If you look at 'Avatar,' could you imagine if you did 'Avatar' for 50 million dollars? It would be ridiculous! You would almost be getting laughs from the audience, unless you got a real indie director to do something incredibly stylised.

Adam McKay

#96. It's fun to do something dumb. Not something really dumb, like my second marriage. That was really really dumb.

Lisa Scottoline

#97. Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Andy Rooney

#98. I'm not one of those girls who can think, 'Right, I'll put a scarf with that and a little brooch there and maybe a vintage jacket.' I'm so impressed with girls who look terrific in a little thing they picked up at the local charity shop. I just look scruffy when I try to do vintage.

Sophie Winkleman

#99. Am I crazy Loretta?"
"A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things.

Donna VanLiere

#100. Sometimes the right thing to do will cost us our greatest sacrifices, but the rewards will always outweigh our losses

Robin M. Bertram