Quotes of Worked - somelinesforyou

“ I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. ”

- Hunter S. Thompson

“ The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for. ”

- Thomas Arnold

“ I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. ”

- Hunter S. Thompson

“ What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. ”

- Nora Ephron

“ They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. ”

- Clare Booth Luce

“ Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure. ”

- Seneca

“ There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. ”

- Groucho Marx

“ If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked. ”

- George Gilder

“ I was working in a parking lot, which is a great place to learn the guitar. I sat in the booth and practiced all day long. And only two cars were stolen while I worked there. ”

- John Flansburgh

“ He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion… I've worked with my best friends in direct competition. ”

- Diane Sawyer

“ Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind. ”

- Julius Rosenwald

“ For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. ”

- Amy Lowell

“ Gold has worked down from Alexander's time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory. ”

- Bernard Baruch

“ He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often, and loved much. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country. ”

- Don Marquis

“ I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for. ”

- Lyndon B. Johnson

“ I early found that when I worked for myself alone, others alone worked for me, but when I worked for others also, others also worked for me. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction — I've worked hard for them! ”

- Maggie Kuhn

“ I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday. ”

- Nelson Algren

“ I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself. ”

- Jim Abbott

“ If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. ”

- Orville Wright

“ It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date. ”

- Roger Von Oech

“ Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed. Not all who fail have therefore worked in vain. There is no failure for the good and brave. ”

- Archbishop Trench

“ Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit. ”

- M. Scott Peck

“ There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use. ”

- Harold Ross
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