Top 100 What I Have Done Quotes
#1. What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.
Stephen Hawking
#2. I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.
Fannie Hurst
#3. What I have done is learn to love and learn to be loved. That didn't come easy.
Mary Oliver
#4. Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience you have from singing these various kinds of feelings that are still related to what I have done in the rest of my career.
Al Jarreau
#5. I don't think people truly know what I have done or that I've actually had a regular job.
Rob Kardashian
#6. Much of my adult life has been spent fighting for equal opportunity, and the idea that I would support limiting opportunity for any segment of society, particularly women, is antithetical to who I am and what I have done.
Paul Tudor Jones
#7. I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.
Francis Bacon
#8. I have meant what I have done. Or I have often meant what I have done. Or I have sometimes meant what I have done. Or I have tried to mean what I was doing.
Jasper Johns
#9. I do have at home the most ridiculous number of awards for what I have done, which is nice in terms of being patted on the back, yet it does cure you of caring about what other people say about you. Ultimately, you must have your own standard of what is good enough.
John Lloyd
#10. I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I'll know, and if I don't, I hope somebody tells me.
Rosemary Clooney
#11. Looking back on my achievements, it is fair to say that I am extremely proud of what I have done and accomplished so far.
Arthur Godfrey
#12. I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Charles Dickens
#13. But it is easy to speak of the past, impossible to go there. I am powerful in ways you can only dream, yet I am still a prisoner of what I have done. I can never escape the cell I have made for myself. Things are what they are.
Joe Abercrombie
#14. With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.
Tom Glazer
#15. I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I, that put it into words, Spoilt what old loins have sent?
William Butler Yeats
#16. People gossip about me.
I am sorry for what I have done;
I have taken three thin steps
And landed myself in the tavern of my mistress
Tsangyang Gyatso
#17. You want to know about the place called Hell?" he asked the curious animal. "There is no Hell," he said. "Hell is in here." He touched the raw, pink skin of his chest with the tips of his fingers. "And it will forever brun inside me for what I have done.
Thomas E. Sniegoski
#18. Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#19. The premise of my whole campaign has been not that people need to believe what I say to them, but they need to look at what I have done. And what I have done in the state of Nevada, I have voted over a 100 times against tax and fee increases, poor public policy, and unconstitutional bills.
Sharron Angle
#20. What I have done is packaged the time-honored information into a process that is doable and has inspired millions to act on it.
Dave Ramsey
#22. I just love putting on the uniform; it's what I have done since I was 6 or 7 years old. It's the life I know. If I didn't love the life of baseball, I wouldn't work out like I do every winter.
Steve Finley
#23. I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
Abraham Lincoln
#24. I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery paths of female delicacy.
Deborah Sampson
#25. An explanation of an old man's mistakes. For I see now that what I have done, and not done, with regard to you, bears all hallmarks of the failings of age. Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they what it was to be young ... and I seem to have forgotten lately ...
J.K. Rowling
#26. His eyes - those silver eyes that would probably haunt her for the rest of her life - were bright.
"No matter what I have done, I really do love you, Celaena."
The word hit her like a stone to the head. He'd never said that word to her before. Ever.
A long silence fell between them.
Sarah J. Maas
#27. I was doing what I have done for most of my life, which is to cover for the mistakes of others when they don't know they have embarrassed themselves.
Elizabeth Strout
#28. When I meet some of my commuting acquaintances on the 6.21 home to Henley-on-Thames they occasionally enquire what I have done that day. I have been known to reply: 'I moved Africa 600 kilometres to the south.' They usually turn quickly to the soccer page. One
Richard Fortey
#29. Electricity transmission operates on a frequency between 49.7 Hertz and 50.2 Hertz. What I have done is petitioned the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission and squeezed this band to now 49.9 Hertz to 50.1 Hertz. This will contain volatility.
Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
#30. I will not ask you for forgiveness. What I have done is unforgivable. I was so lost in hatred and revenge. I never dreamed that I could love you so much. You stole what was left of my heart. And now I've lost you forever.
Elizabeth Rudnick
#31. I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.
Tori Amos
#32. I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.
Thomas Jefferson
#33. I need forgiveness for my sins, but I need also deliverance from the power of sin ... I appreciate the blessed fact of God's forgiveness, but I want something more than that: I want deliverance. I need forgiveness for what I have done, but I need also deliverance from what I am.
Watchman Nee
#34. I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.
Mickalene Thomas
#35. I suspect I said nothing because I was doing what I have done most of my life, which is to cover for the mistakes of others when they don't know they have embarrassed themselves. I do this, I think, because it could be me a great deal of the time.
Elizabeth Strout
#36. You will go far beyond what I have done - you can create - I can only build with the materials others have made. But we builders have our place - we can make temples for our gods and goddesses if nothing else.
L.M. Montgomery
#37. What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that I triumph in Italy in order to aggrandise the pack of lawyers who form the Directory, and men like Carnot and Barras? What an idea!
Napoleon Bonaparte
#38. I am the recipient of many benefits that I do not deserve and did not earn. Someone else paid for them. I am grateful! How do I show my gratitude? By daily pouring into others and passing on to them the things that will allow them to run far and achieve beyond what I have done.
John C. Maxwell
#39. There are long stretches of time when I don't know what I am doing,
or what I have done - nothing mostly, but sometimes
it would be nice to know what kind of nothing that was ...
Anne Enright
#40. I have been constantly shaping and reshaping my career. I laid a foundation by doing respectful work in all media. And I am happy with what I have done.
Colman Domingo
#41. It's always a challenge to top what I have done in the past.
Jeff Hardy
#42. A Betrayal I cannot undo what I have done; I can't un-sing a song that's sung. And the saddest thing about my regret - I can't forgive me, and you can't forget.
Lang Leav
#43. What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.
Joseph Hall
#44. He steps forward and kisses my forehead. His breath is soft, devastating warmth on my face. He turns and leaves. He chooses survival over me. It's no different than what I have done. We are both just trying so hard to survive me.
Tara Brown
#45. I alone must solve my problem. I have to clear my mind of everything else, think hard, analyze, explore my options, plan a strategy for the immediate situation, and then do whatever it takes. Sometimes it means scraping off what I have done and starting over again and again.
Richard Schmid
#46. Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife said 'why don't you say you're giving up to devote more time to politics?'. And it is what I have done.
Tony Benn
#47. I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity ... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.
Elvin Jones
#48. The only point in creating something is to watch it die. Like a story that must come to a climax, what I have done will not be fulfilled until the end has arrived.
Brandon Sanderson
#49. My Lord does not want to know what I have done for Him. He just wants to know how I am. If he hears from me that I am happy, then he himself becomes exceedingly happy. In umistakable terms He tells me that my happiness is His real and only Satisfaction.
Sri Chinmoy
#50. They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.
Georges Seurat
#51. All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder.
Albert Pierrepoint
#52. And now, no matter what I thought I had done or why I did it, it has become completely untrue because of what I have done since.
Tony Burgess
#53. I tell you, it scares me what I have done to her. It terrifies me, even. And yet I am not sorry. I am as deeply unsorry as a person could be. There is nothing that one human will not do to another.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#54. I don't regret anything and what I have done in my period of my life. Everything happens for a reason, and that's why I am here.
Golshifteh Farahani
#55. When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could take an aspect of myself, and from that one bit of personality, I can create a character. This is what I have done, particularly in my novels.
Jonathan Ames
#56. 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
#57. What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.
William Shakespeare
#58. I intended lilies, said the magician. but in the clutches of a desparate desire to do something extraordinary, I called down a greater magic and inadvertently caused you a profound harm. I will now try to undo what I have done.
Kate DiCamillo
#59. 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
#60. I not going to focus on what I have done in the past what I stand for, what I articulate to the American people. The American people will judge me on what I am saying and what I have done in the last 12 years in the Congress.
Dan Quayle
#61. No matter what I have done, no matter how I have failed, no matter how week I have been, no matter how inadequate I am, God has not changed. He has not failed.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#62. What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
Randy Moss
#63. I am very proud of what I have done since I turned professional. It's been great to become the first teenager to win three times, to have played in some Majors and the Masters, and to have twice broken into the world's top 50 and stayed there for a bit of time.
Matteo Manassero
#64. Applicants for wisdom
do what I have done:
inquire within
Heraclitus
#65. ...I see now that what I have done, and not done, with regard to you, bears all the hallmarks of the failing of age. Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young... and I seem to have forgoten, lately...
J.K. Rowling
#66. Maybe I might be repeating the same mistake again ... But don't you think it is far better to regret what I have done than what I have not done yet ... ?
Hiroko Sakai
#68. I don't lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it.
Dennis Nilsen
#69. I am really proud of what I have done for cancer awareness, but do I feel like Bono? No.
Andy Rourke
#70. It is hard for me to believe that a human being could have done what I have done." Jeffrey Dahmer
Robert Keller
#71. I don't like to risk my life, so I prepare sometimes for months or sometimes for years. But sometimes after a walk, I look what I have done, and I have a little bit of fear coming to me, just looking at pictures.
Philippe Petit
#72. I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.
Bill Wyman
#73. I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.
Luciano Pavarotti
#74. I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing, infinitely perfect within, why cry, why worry, perfect like mind essence and the minds of banana peels.
Jack Kerouac
#75. Don't die wondering "What if I could have done that..."
Die, saying "I remember when I did...
John R. Morris
#77. The Wookiee gambit.' he said with a smile. I didn't have a clue what he was talking about, but somewhere in my head a distant memory was forming. He raised an eyebrow. 'Christ, Alex, what have they done to your brain? You don't remember Star Wars?
Alexander Gordon Smith
#78. I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a
certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and
somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have
done.
Jack Ruby
#79. Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.
Jamie Oliver
#80. O, the perfidy of men." "What have I done?" he protested. "Nothing at present, but you are the only representative of your sex I have at hand to abuse. Take your lumps for your brothers.
Deanna Raybourn
#81. I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
Henry Ford
#82. I didn't really know what to expect, but I thought there aren't a lot of rap groups that can say they have a documentary done about them, so my attitude was like, 'Shoot, why not?' I'm sure there are a lot of people that would like to take our place. I felt like we should all embrace it.
Phife Dawg
#83. I want to have a cultural impact. I want to be an inspiration, to show people what can be done.
Sean Combs
#84. One thing you try not to do as a father, as a coach, is pressure your son to do something that you've done. You don't just keep saying, "this is what I've done, this is what I've done." You have to take a little piece at a time.
Patrick Willis
#85. A jury found former Enron sleezeballs Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling guilty of fraud and conspiracy. Ken Lay? That's not a good name to have when you're going to prison. And Kenny Boy ain't too good either ... I guess in prison they'll have done to them what they did to the stockholders.
Jay Leno
#86. I smirk as Peter misses again. I can't help myself.
"Hey, Peter," I say, " Remember what a target is?
Veronica Roth
#87. It was my job not just to pluck the chickens but to eviscerate them. I hated that part. Nauseating and disgusting, but it had to be done. That's what I learned from my father and what I loved learning from him: that you do what you have to do.
Philip Roth
#88. I don't know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn't had my girlfriends.
Reese Witherspoon
#89. Long before 9/11 and the war in Iraq, a lot of people hated the United States and the West. But what the Iraqi war seems to have done, at least in ... I mean, I'm just reporting what I see from the people on the ground, is that it has silenced many pro-American forces in the Muslim world.
Yaroslav Trofimov
#90. Perhaps they suspected that I thought less of them because I knew it. (I'm too aware of human frailty to have let that happen. If anything, I thought more of them for wanting to face up to what they had done and for trying to change.)
Harold S. Kushner
#91. LOOK! EVEN I HAVE DONE WRONG, I HAVE BEEN SENT INTO JAIL. WHAT IS THE USE OF STRIKE? GO STRIKE. BUT THE COUNTRY NEEDS ITS FUTURE! IT'S EDUCATION! KILL THE CRIMINAL LIKE ME
Fahmid Hassan Prohor
#92. I am seeing that Gandhi is looking through these specs that whether we have made India clean or not, what we have done and what we have done.
Narendra Modi
#93. But I, who am old, who have done what I must do, who stand in the daylight facing my own death, the end of all possibility, I know that there is only one power that is real and worth the having. And that is the power, not to take, but to accept.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#94. The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Denis Waitley
#95. I did business the same way President Lee did, and from what I read in the papers, the same way President Ma has done. But I have been charged for misuse and misappropriation. People need to learn at the most basic level that valid charges have not been brought against me.
Chen Shui-bian
#96. I'm not afraid to fail ... I'm scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me, 'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more.
Mother Angelica
#97. It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.
Jello Biafra
#99. If I am using a sable, it may start off as an eight or seven, but it's a double aught by the time I'm done. I hate brights ... they have no use. You might as well buy a filbert and take the scissors and cut off half of what you paid for.
Nelson Shanks
#100. I don't know what I would have done if I had had to work for a living.
Harry Benson
