Top 414 Works Quotes

A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.
Jakob Bohme
Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.
Nelson Mandela
Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.
Howard Rheingold
I’ve worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn’t out to get me.
Caitlin Doughty
No team works out teamwork.
Dwyane Wade
I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting.
Giorgio Armani
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
When it's well managed, migration works in the national

When it’s well managed, migration works in the national interest, for our communities, economy and country.
Priti Patel
I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that’s the most dangerous kind of censorship – that’s how hegemony works.
Jennifer Egan
I’m turned off by the groupie thing. I’m a romantic; I like finding the right woman, and if it works, it works.
Joe Perry
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.
Vitruvius
I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.
Tom Brady
U.A.E.’s continuously growing initiatives in the field of charitable and humanitarian works became a basic component of our foreign activities.
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
When Pinterest works well, it helps you find things that are meaningful to you. We want to build a system that helps you do that.
Ben Silbermann
Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.
Placido Domingo
Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.
Dorothy Day
Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that’s the way the business works.
Larisa Oleynik
Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I’ve distilled many universal truths about success. There’s a secret I’ve learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
Jack Canfield
AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.
Joe Perry
I enjoyed working with Vikram Kumar, as he is an amazing director who is full of ideas, and he tells me that he has different compartments in his brain in which he places different story ideas and works on them simultaneously.
Suriya
Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
William Penn
The U.N. cannot be run by the ‘I.’ It only works by the ‘We.’
Sushma Swaraj
Censorship no longer works by hiding information from you; censorship works by flooding you with immense amounts of misinformation, of irrelevant information, of funny cat videos, until you’re just unable to focus.
Yuval Noah Harari
I don’t know how this industry works. There is no formula.
Nushrat Bharucha
What I respect in people more than anything is work ethic. And Justin Timberlake’s got that. He works his tail off, and he knows his stuff.
Amy Adams
You can’t just show the pretty parts’ when it comes to relationships. That’s not how the world works, that’s not how love works.
Chris Harrison
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People should try to know God and imitate him in their works. Repetitions and ceremonials are of no use.
Dayananda Saraswati
If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I’d say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.
Mary Roach
At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.
Aaron Swartz
When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.
Helen Gahagan
Anderson’s muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.
Thomas Griffith
I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
J. D. Salinger
Nobody who works 40 hours a week should have to live in poverty.
Tom Perez
The architect works in the territory of memory.
Mario Botta
That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.
Chuck Palahniuk
For the most part, works of mine are untitled. There was a brief period where I had poetic titles for works, and they’re embarrassing now. I think, for the most part, it’s not something that I have talent for.
Robert Gober
I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.
Kenzaburo Oe
Regardless of any thing that I've done that people migh

Regardless of any thing that I’ve done that people might think, ‘Oh, well, that deserved a scarlet letter,’ that’s not how it works.
Hannah Brown
Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.
Jack LaLanne
I pray quite a bit, actually. And even if you don’t believe in prayer, just have a go. Pray for a good day, or just pray for your friend, or whatever it might be. And it’s amazing, man, ’cause it absolutely works. I guarantee, it genuinely does work.
Rob Halford
A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you’re writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don’t have to do it over.
Gary Oldman
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
John Updike
I have always been convinced that the only way to get artificial intelligence to work is to do the computation in a way similar to the human brain. That is the goal I have been pursuing. We are making progress, though we still have lots to learn about how the brain actually works.
Geoffrey Hinton
Just find what works for you, what style suits you best, and just be confident enough to rock it.
Odell Beckham, Jr.
Prayer is the medium of miracles; in whatever way works for you, pray right now.
Marianne Williamson
I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way – one solid scene doesn’t have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Moore’s Law-based technology is so much easier than neuroscience. The brain works in such a different way from the way a computer does.
Paul Allen
An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes.
Peter Handke
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Blaise Pascal
My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them ‘sir’ or ‘ma’am’ or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.
Ian Harding
My mom’s an art teacher, so I always had music in the house. She always had records, and I was mesmerized by the mechanics of how a turntable works.
DJ Premier
You have to believe in a placebo or it won’t work, but if it works, it’s obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy.
Charles Jencks
Natural Family Planning works and is as effective, and sometimes more effective, than the birth control methods out there.
Abby Johnson
In the CoverGirl Melting Pout Matte Lipstick ads, I am wearing this gorgeous purple color called Seismic. It’s such a different shade, but it works well with my face. I’ve got hazel eyes, and so purple kind of compliments it. It’s a nice shade to put on when I’m feeling a little sassy.
Ayesha Curry
Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready-made products, we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are ‘ready-mades aided’ and also works of assemblage.
Marcel Duchamp
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan Perlis
You don’t learn from good people – they’ve found what works for them and are completely original; you learn from the people who are bad. You think: ‘Oh dear, I’m not going to do that.’
Helen McCrory
I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I’ve had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.
Ken Blanchard
My dad works in child protection and he’s spent many, many years in that line of work.
Chris Hemsworth
When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask ’em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
Rachel Perry
As long as you’ve got your courage of conviction, it works for you. I think that the same applies, too, even where you don’t, because in today’s world, financial resources are the least important. World has moved to the power of ideas.
Mukesh Ambani
I’ve tried to incorporate new ways of playing the game. That’s why you hear people call me a ‘hybrid goalie’ and say I adjust to the situation, never doing the same thing over and over like a butterfly goalie. I try to see what works and hopefully with my talent I’m able to play it and make it happen.
Martin Brodeur