Top 100 We Do Anything Quotes
#1. Don't you understand?" snarled Rincewind. "We are going over the Edge, godsdammit!"
"Can't we do anything about it?"
"No!"
"Then I can't see the sense in panicking," said Twoflower calmly.
Terry Pratchett
#2. So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. - Lee Iacocca
Lee Iacocca
#3. You will never know everything. Knowledge unfolds as we move forward. Sitting back and waiting to know everything before we do anything is a waste of life.
~ I Am Another You
Priya Kumar
#4. Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer's day, a long-running sitcom, one's life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does?
Jasper Fforde
#5. Identity. It's always God's first move. Before we do anything wrong and before we do anything right, God has named and claimed us as God's own.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#6. People should treat the oceans like we do anything else that we care about - with consideration, with care, and affection. That's it. For that we must educate.
Walter Munk
#7. We shouldn't knee jerk anything. The Iraqi government a few years back, when they had a chance to sign an agreement that would keep some of our presence there, refused to do it. So we've got to be very careful and thoughtful before we do anything.
Carl Levin
#8. Yeah, well, I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid, hopefully. And I think we're all a bit crazy if we do anything that's deviant. I've studied a great deal on deviance and aberrant behavior. Most of the interesting people I've ever met have been deviant in one form or another.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#9. I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.
Dana Rohrabacher
#10. Love. But the pure kind of love. I don't think that comes very often. Most of us are ordinary. If we do anything great, it's only so we'll be loved ourselves. Maybey just for ten minutes.
Barbara Kingsolver
#11. The way we do anything is the way we do everything.
Martha Beck
#12. My mother was given to a typical question: "We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?" But my wife's typical question was "We have always done this. Why don't we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?"
John D. Rockefeller
#13. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
Oswald Chambers
#14. Okay, you need to eat something. Before we do anything else, you have to eat."
"I just did."
I gave him a hard look, but his face was entirely innocent. He was fucking with me, right? He had to be. "Man cannot live by pussy alone," I said.
Ava Lore
#16. Well, then why should we do anything more than once? Should I just smoke this one cigarette? Maybe we should only have sex once, if it's the same thing. Should we just watch one sunset? Or live just one day? Because it's new every time. Each time is a different experience.
Jane Margolis
#17. The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.
C.S. Lewis
#18. If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding, trouble of some kind. Take it. Why not? To that you were called.
Elisabeth Elliot
#19. Wisdom: Knowledge rightly applied. We assimilate lots of knowledge. Whether or not we do anything with that knowledge is a measure of our wisdom. That implies some change ... and change can be difficult.
Hyrum W. Smith
#20. Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
B.F. Skinner
#21. What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!
Douglas Adams
#22. When we accept the fact that we can't do everything, we are more willing to ask for and accept help when we do anything.
Simon Sinek
#23. It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that's not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives.
Dinaw Mengestu
#24. I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.
Werner Klemperer
#25. We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story ...
Mary Oliver
#26. Remember ... we don't see objects, we see light. [ ... ] Light can do anything water can do
flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do
paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room.
Janet Fitch
#27. Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.
Jamie Dimon
#28. Back then we gave it our all, we neither lied nor made mistakes, we didn't fail and didn't do anything wrong.
It's just that ... TIME has passed and changed it all.
Yuuki Obata
#29. When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.
Nursultan Nazarbayev
#30. All I'm saying, Isaiah, is I want you to to think about it. You don't owe her anything." "Yes, I do. We all owe her. Me especially. It's more difficult to distinguish the good from the bad every day- and she needs people that she can trust. Because the world is full of people she can't.
Nathan Edmondson
#31. Perhaps it's only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it's too late then for them to do anything about it.
P.D. James
#32. If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen.
Alice Cooper
#33. So he dreams himself the life he cannot have?" "Exactly. But we, who can do anything, we refuse to live our dreams on the basis that they are not practical. So tell me, who is to be pitied more?
Helen Simonson
#34. 'Victorious' for me was a chance to write a song exactly how I was feeling - I was feeling triumphant, I was feeling like I could do anything as long as I've got the people that I love by my side. We're gonna go out and conquer it, and party, and just be awesome.
Brendon Urie
#35. We're not consistent. We're not stable. We don't stick with anything. Most of the time we can't even make decisions.
Kevin DeYoung
#36. For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur.
Hill Harper
#37. Don't forget that we come into this life with out anything and with out anything we are going to leave, nothing is more valuable than human life!
Mos harroni se kemi ardhur ne kete jete pa asnjegje, e do te shkojme pa asnjegje! Asgje nuk eshte me e kushtushme se Jeta e njeriut !
Zybejta "Beta" Metani' Marashi
#38. As someone once said about water pollution, we all live downstream. We are all interconnected, and we can no longer afford the luxury of not thinking about the rest of the planet in anything we do.
Shashi Tharoor
#39. We're angry about this, upset about that, but who has the time to do anything anymore? There are those reports to report on, memos to remember, e-mails to deflect or delete. They bury us like snow.
Mark Slouka
#40. The most important point to remember in developing self-confidence is to take responsibility for who we are. This empowers us. We can change anything, do anything, and be anything when we assume full responsibility for ourselves.
Rachael Bermingham
#41. My friends were like, "Oh, this weekend, we're going to go shopping." "Oh, this weekend I'm going to go to see the judo champion" ... you know. And I couldn't do anything.
Riccardo Tisci
#42. When I saw the Twilight movies I thought being a Vampyre was so romantic. When my friends decided to be Vampyres it was so cool. We would do anything to be like Dwayne and Maria and the rest. I got what I wished for but I have no life to enjoy it with.
Abramelin Keldor
#43. True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us
D. A. Carson
#44. I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.
David Alan Grier
#45. I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you.
Charles Grodin
#46. So we can simulate Richter-10 earthquakes. We simulate 70-foot waves coming into these things. Very cool. We basically say no human should ever be required to do anything, because if you judge by Chernobyl and Fukushima, the human element is not on your side.
Bill Gates
#47. Often times we feel like either we can't make a world of difference, or we feel that it's not going to change anything anyway. The truth is you can change someone's day, you can change someone's life, but you have to show up and do what you got to do to actually see any fruit coming from it.
Nick Vujicic
#48. The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask.
Ayn Rand
#49. At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible.
Geoffrey Canada
#50. Either we trust in God, and in that case we neither trust in ourselves, nor in our fellow-men, nor in circumstances, nor in anything besides; or we do trust in one or more of these, and in that case do not trust in God.
George Muller
#51. Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?
Joseph Goebbels
#52. I'm a cat! Cats don't go round feeling *sorry*! Or guilty! We never *regret* anything! Do you know what it feels like saying, 'Hello food, can you talk?' That's not how a cat is supposed to behave!
Terry Pratchett
#53. We can work out anything if we put our mind to it, study it, do hard work instead of finding simple answers
Jacque Fresco
#54. I think anything we do - eating, walking down the street, online shopping - gives you another perspective on writing stories.
Peter Orner
#55. No one gets punished for anything. We do whatever we want, and that's all we do, and nobody stops us, and nobody cares.
Lev Grossman
#56. Affection is not important to you, nor to me. You want power Margaret, power and wealth; and so do I. Nothing matters as much as this to either of us, and we will sacrifice anything for it
Philippa Gregory
#57. We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
#58. We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.
Charles Evers
#59. But surely we are not allowed ... "
"Allowed?" I counters. "We're allowed to do anything in this world until someone says we ain't allowed and that someone can back it up.
L.A. Meyer
#60. The Commerce Clause has already been inflated so much that we basically can't do anything without the government's permission.
Alex Epstein
#61. Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
Helen Keller
#62. God is not honored by groundless love. In fact, there is no such thing. If we do not know anything about God, there is nothing in our mind to awaken love. If love does not come from knowing God, there is no point in calling it love for God.
John Piper
#63. Do we consider that anything goes, that we have no responsibility towards others but only for satisfying our needs?
Well, that is the crux of the great novels xxx - the question of doing what is right or what we want to do.
Azar Nafisi
#64. Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.
William H. Macy
#65. There's a saying that you can't put a price on a human life, but that saying is a lie because we have. We have, and it's so much lower than you would think. Yes, human life has its price like anything else, and will continue to do so for as long as it doubles as a commodity.
Nenia Campbell
#66. If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we need to become universal heretics, not believing anything that we do not know from direct experience, beyond stories, beyond hearsay, and even beyond the mind.
A.H. Almaas
#67. We can't do anything to make up for our transgressions. There must be grace to cover them - no matter what they are or how deep they run within us. Grace has to be stronger.
Kristy Cambron
#68. The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it.
Carol Moseley Braun
#69. Here's what we'll do. We're going to keep you at the end of our fishing line. And if you ever need anything, you just give a little tug and we'll reel you back in.
Jeffrey Zaslow
#70. In anything we do, any endeavor, it's not what you do; it's why you do it
Howard Schultz
#71. We do not require man's religion for salvation. We do not believe in anything that forces people to keep their places in this world.
Thomm Quackenbush
#72. Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
Boyle Roche
#73. What I would do is I would just remember the scene and I'd go home and I'd write out the scene from memory. And anything I didn't remember I would just fill in the blanks myself and then go and give it to a classmate and then we'd do it.
Quentin Tarantino
#74. What we have to get straight in our heads is that owning the money doesn't mean ANYTHING. "It's the DOING with money that develops us - it's not in the having. And when you have more, you're enabled to DO more."
Jack Canfield
#75. The biggest lie in choosing is, "I can't." That is simply not true. We can do anything we want If we don't do something, it is because we have committed our time, energy and resources somewhere else.
Roger Delano Hinkins
#76. We have an enemy who would do anything to keep us distracted from Jesus.
Emily P. Freeman
#77. I am not going to do anything with you: not if you mean by that 'do something to you' without your leave. We might do some things together. I don't know about sides. I go my own way; but your way may go along with mine for a while.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#78. Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don't say anything because we're frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship.
Mitch Albom
#79. How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid to be fools, we end up being afraid to be anything.
Mike Mason
#80. And don't you ever do anything like that again! I am the one who ends up in the stupid life-threatening situations. You are the levelheaded, responsible one in this relationship. Got it? This is how this whole thing works. We have to stick to our designated roles, or there is chaos!
Molly Harper
#81. We are constantly emphasizing to people that they need to address anything that affects flight safety or mission success - many pathways to do that. We need to understand better what may be preventing people from using those pathways.
Ellen Ochoa
#82. We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?
Ambrose
#83. But what I have come to see is that God is big enough to receive us with all our mixture. We do not have to be bright, or pure, or filled with faith, or anything. That is what grace means, and not only are we saved by grace, we live by it as well. And we pray by it.
Richard J. Foster
#84. Part of me knows one more day won't do anything except postpone the heartbreak. But another part of me believes differently. We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.
Gayle Forman
#85. Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.
Gloria Steinem
#86. A lot of us are ruled by fear during our lives - afraid we'll get burgled, afraid a dog will bite us, afraid we'll get fat, afraid someone will leave us. Once you lose fear, life becomes sweeter, and that happens as you get older. I'm sure by the time I'm 80, I'll be able to do absolutely anything!
Joanna Lumley
#87. When you try to attain something, your mind starts to wander about somewhere else. When you do not try to attain anything, you have your own body and mind right here.
In Buddhism it is a heretical view to expect something outside this world. We do not seek for something besides ourselves.
Shunryu Suzuki
#88. When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves. That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time.
Shunryu Suzuki
#89. It seems to me a proof of the small advance our race has made in true wisdom, that we find it so hard to give up doing anything we have meant to do.
William Dean Howells
#90. Certain element - a few crazies - that don't have anything to do. They shot out two streetlights on Goodwinter Boulevard last night. When I was a kid we smashed pumpkins and strung trees with toilet paper on Halloween, but this new generation does it all year round.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#91. Lindsay Lohan's collaboration was a disaster. I am furious but I can't do anything about it. That happens to a lot of designers. We were the creators and patrons, responsible for the creation and destiny of our houses. But when we gave up our houses, we gave up our souls.
Emanuel Ungaro
#92. You have to not care whether they approve of your or not," she said when I called. "We do what we do to express ourselves, not to coincide with what others like. You're lucky if they like anything you do.
Debby Bull
#93. Instead of regretting what we cannot do, it is better to do anything we can do. Even if what we do does not bring us to our goal, it brings us much closer to it.
CLAMP
#94. Because you make me better. You make me-you make me feel like I matter. Like my life matters. I feel like, with you, I can do anything in the world. That we can do anything in the world. And we will.
Charles Sheehan-Miles
#95. Covering a Super Bowl is actually one of the easiest things we do because our most experienced people are there. We'll have 25,000 feet of film and there's no way you're going to miss anything.
Steve Sabol
#96. After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.
Zechariah Chafee
#97. I don't think there's anything else we can do for him as long as he's in denial. No one's going to convince him that he's sick.
Xavier Francisco Amador
#98. We turned our back on Israel, our ally. You know, and a situation like that, of course [Barack]Obama's not going to be able to do anything. I would shore up our military first, because if you don't get the military right, nothing else is going to work.
Benjamin Carson
#99. There is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.
Gertrude Atherton
#100. Remember how we use to pray to get invited to birthday parties? And they only asked us because we were so grateful we'd do anything, stay late and help the mothers wash the cake pans. I'm still that girl, flattered to death if somebody wants me around.
Barbara Kingsolver
