Quotes about Performed

I hate when comedians use Performed For The Troops as one of there credits before they go up on stage. Votes: 3

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. Votes: 1

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. Votes: 1

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something. Votes: 1

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table. Votes: 1

The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.' Votes: 1

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past. Votes: 1

Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization. Votes: 1

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. Votes: 1

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre. Votes: 1

Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed with a local company, although it wasn't a professional company. Votes: 1

A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties. Votes: 1

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around. Votes: 1

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books. Votes: 1

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art. Votes: 1

I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see. Votes: 1

I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselves to go at it and have a good time. I think that's what I'm doing through music. It's not about 'I'm from here and you're from there.' It's about unity. Votes: 1

Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him. Votes: 1

In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience. Votes: 1

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer. Votes: 1

There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it. Votes: 1

Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics. Votes: 1

Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop. Votes: 1

One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.' Votes: 1

My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade; I dug ditches and loaded trucks with black men who taught me more than any book ever could; and I graduated from Ole Miss. Anyone who survived that is a de facto expert on the South. Votes: 1

My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too. Votes: 1

Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style. Votes: 1

I painted sets before I ever performed. Votes: 0

The greater part performed achieves the less. Votes: 0

I've always performed. I've done plays at home. Votes: 0

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves. Votes: 0

Music does not excite until it is performed. Votes: 0

Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000. Votes: 0

It was overwhelmingly beautiful to see my music performed. Votes: 0

Dichotomy = operation performed on lesbians to make them normal. Votes: 0

I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six. Votes: 0

Research performed on animals is, by definition, scientifically unsound. Votes: 0

Choice is always performed against a background of habit. Votes: 0

The first time I performed musically, I threw up. Votes: 0

He was a man, he always performed his promises. Votes: 0

Great music is better than it can be performed. Votes: 0

59% of all suicides are actually botched murder-suicides performed by dyslexics. Votes: 0

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. Votes: 0

I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago. Votes: 0

The best performances, are those that can be performed once. Votes: 0

An apology informed is good; an apology performed is better. Votes: 0

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed. Votes: 0

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Votes: 0

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted Votes: 0

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes. Votes: 0

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment. Votes: 0

A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences. Votes: 0

Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are. Votes: 0

The illusion of choice is the greatest magic trick ever performed. Votes: 0

I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse. Votes: 0

Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we sense them. Votes: 0

One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours. Votes: 0

It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew? Votes: 0

Task performed by an unintelligent person should not be rated high. Votes: 0

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure. Votes: 0

The stress of an action diminishes rapidly after that action is performed. Votes: 0

No action can be performed successfully without a clear result in view. Votes: 0

I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way. Votes: 0

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic? Votes: 0

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters. Votes: 0

The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it. Votes: 0

A great piece of music is beautiful, regardless of how it is performed. Votes: 0

I went to Boston University and got my BFA, and performed Off Broadway. Votes: 0

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having. Votes: 0

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect. Votes: 0

The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably. Votes: 0

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved. Votes: 0

I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria. Votes: 0

Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that. Votes: 0

Regret is distress over a desire unfulfilled or an action performed or not performed. Votes: 0

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country. Votes: 0

Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart. Votes: 0

If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President. Votes: 0

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character. Votes: 0

The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open. Votes: 0

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity. Votes: 0

I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net. Votes: 0

A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb. Votes: 0

Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds. Votes: 0

God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed. Votes: 0

The odd thing about Cripple of Inishmaan is its never actually been performed on the island. Votes: 0

All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward. Votes: 0

Samuel Beckett's estate will not license productions of his plays that are not performed as written. Votes: 0

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible. Votes: 0

If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy. Votes: 0

Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task. Votes: 0

He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat. Votes: 0

The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island. Votes: 0

We always performed for our church, but we also just performed whenever the family got together. Votes: 0

Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me. Votes: 0

Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal. Votes: 0

Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed Votes: 0

The first time we performed as a duo, we had already been playing together in various situations. Votes: 0

The first great work (a task performed by few) Is that yourself may to yourself be true. Votes: 0

'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists. Votes: 0

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day. Votes: 0

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it. Votes: 0

Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever. Votes: 0

You are only one prayer away from a dream fulfilled, a promise kept, or a miracle performed. Votes: 0

Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being. Votes: 0

My mother, Minuetta Kessler, was a concert pianist and composer who performed at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall. Votes: 0

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. Votes: 0

Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better. Votes: 0

John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets. Votes: 0

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes. Votes: 0

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. Votes: 0

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve. Votes: 0

My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed. Votes: 0

Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time. Votes: 0

How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death. Votes: 0

You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening. Votes: 0

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time. Votes: 0

I've performed on 'The Tonight Show' with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, but not at the same time. Votes: 0

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows. Votes: 0

We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs. Votes: 0

All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles. Votes: 0

There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly. Votes: 0

The urge to sing was so strong one day I performed in a club and it was very successful. Votes: 0

When Jesus performed miracles, he wasn't demonstrating what God can do, but what God can do through a man. Votes: 0

I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings. Votes: 0

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. Votes: 0

One of my biggest role models was David Beckham because of how he performed on and off the pitch. Votes: 0

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends. Votes: 0

A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion. Votes: 0

In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl. Votes: 0

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere. Votes: 0

I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance. Votes: 0

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier. Votes: 0

Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty Votes: 0

I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally. Votes: 0

I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays. Votes: 0

The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed. Votes: 0

TWINS by Nefesch is a fantastic piece of truly impromptu mentalism which will only be performed by fearless performers. Highly recommended! Votes: 0

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves. Votes: 0

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed. Votes: 0

Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music. Votes: 0

Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights. Votes: 0

Micro meditations should be performed with very little activity. These practices should not be associated with any goal, concept or belief. Votes: 0

Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once. Votes: 0

The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding. Votes: 0

...any effect to be successful must first be founded upon a simple method and then be performed with a direct to-the-point presentation. Votes: 0

I never performed on drugs. That'd be stupid. It's the same thing with athletes. They can't perform when they have cocaine problems. Votes: 0

Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work. Votes: 0

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll. Votes: 0

We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed. Votes: 0

My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no was around I'd kiss the screen. Votes: 0

Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots. Votes: 0

Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous Votes: 0

I slithered out of the sinkhole on my stomach. It was not the sexiest move I'd ever performed, but I was impressed nonetheless. Votes: 0

I believe Jesus wasn't thinking about miracle when He performed it. He's just doing normal activities as he did in His heavenly kingdom. Votes: 0

My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no one was around I'd kiss the screen. Votes: 0

A squat cannot be performed on a Smith machine any more than it can be performed in a small closet with a hamster. Votes: 0

It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried. Votes: 0

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul. Votes: 0

I feel like the songs that I write are best when they are performed by an ensemble, rather than by one solo instrument. Votes: 0

I got into music via the competitions; the first time I ever performed was in a kind of rap battle, competing for money. Votes: 0

There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level ofmuscular stimulation and growththan the correctly performed full squat. Votes: 0

Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character. Votes: 0

I started by writing, with my partner Ed Simmons, a monologue for Danny Thomas, that he performed at Ciro's nightclub in Los Angeles. Votes: 0

There was never any down side to casting friends over professionals. It was always fun seeing folks who never performed before stretching their wings. Votes: 0

Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever. Votes: 0

Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required. Votes: 0

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. Votes: 0

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination Votes: 0

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time. Votes: 0

The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity. Votes: 0

The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war. Votes: 0

A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change. Votes: 0

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major. Votes: 0

I performed at Mom and Dad's party when I was four. Oh my gosh, I was singing a Madonna song, and I peed myself! Votes: 0

Sorry am I to say, I have often observed that I have performed worst when I most ardently wished to do better than ever. Votes: 0

If your job wasn't performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry book I'm not sure I believe it's necessary Votes: 0

I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me. Votes: 0

As in heaven Your will is punctually performed, so may it be done on earth by all creatures, particularly in me and by me. Votes: 0

In the end, it doesn't matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished"”a life without heart is not worth living. Votes: 0

We stand in black to watch this rite performed, the body in the box, the box in the hole, the dirt on the box. Votes: 0

Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store. Votes: 0

Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday. Votes: 0

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains. Votes: 0

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent. Votes: 0

Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled. Votes: 0

Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety. Votes: 0

Students judge how well they might do in a chemistry course from knowing how peers, who performed comparably to them in physics, fared in chemistry Votes: 0

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act. Votes: 0

I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank. Votes: 0

I did Showtime at the Apollo when I was 10, and it was the first time that Id ever performed on TV, and it felt great. Votes: 0

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands. Votes: 0

I did 'Showtime at the Apollo' when I was 10, and it was the first time that I'd ever performed on TV, and it felt great. Votes: 0

One should express his viewpoint regarding what he performed in his country and in a vast part of the world with great respect and deep thought. Votes: 0

Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men. Votes: 0

I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.' Votes: 0

My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about becoming an actress. Votes: 0

nursing was regarded as simply an extension of the unpaid services performed by the housewife - a characteristic attitude that haunts the profession to this day. Votes: 0

How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others! Votes: 0

Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities become constructive. Votes: 0

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed. Votes: 0

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease. Votes: 0

The miracles of Christ were studiously performed in the most unostentatious way. He seemed anxious to veil His majesty under the love with which they were wrought. Votes: 0

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves. Votes: 0

I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons. Votes: 0

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils. Votes: 0

At 1.24 am on 26 April 1986 Chernobyl's Unit 4 reactor exploded after staff disabled safety systems and performed an ill-advised experiment to check "“ ironically enough "“ the reactor's safety. Votes: 0

The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal Votes: 0

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan. Votes: 0

I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing. Votes: 0

I do know some of the world's richest people. In monetary terms, they all performed very well. In terms of a fulfilling life, I am less sure. Votes: 0

Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant. Votes: 0

No matter what changes God has performed in you, never rely on them. Build only on a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and on the Spirit He gives. Votes: 0

When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed Votes: 0

There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels. Votes: 0

On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day. Votes: 0

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future. Votes: 0

The live show is different from the album. It's different every night depending on where I am and how many months have gone by since I last performed. Votes: 0

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes. Votes: 0

It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves. Votes: 0

If I can't sing them myself, there's nothing better than writing songs for other people and watching them be performed. It's kind of more thrilling than doing it yourself. Votes: 0

Without the word dream, or the concept dream, and without the word blue and the emotions, I would have been really limited in the things I've written and performed. Votes: 0

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities. Votes: 0

However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time. Votes: 0

I actually performed at an orthodox Jewish wedding, where the men were separated from the women, but they both came together to not enjoy what I was talking about. Votes: 0

There is a spiritual godliness that drifts naturally through the affairs of man, but it is visible only if actions are undertaken and performed with that godliness in mind. Votes: 0

I wouldn't say Bond is an ideal figure, no. The character has been performed in so many different ways that people go, "Oh, that's an interesting take on Bond." Votes: 0

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.' Votes: 0

Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh. Votes: 0

I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything. Votes: 0

When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were in the crowd listening, that was hard. Votes: 0

Mother Teresa would seek no other pulpit than the hovels of the poor, and no other sermon than her works of love, performed for the unloved, in God's name. Votes: 0

Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty. Votes: 0

It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody questioned Aristotle's falling balls. Nobody said, Show Me! Votes: 0

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up. I want to bring it back to the early '80s Muppet movies, when the scripts could have been performed by humans. Votes: 0

I really enjoy doing what I do. I enjoy seeing live sport performed at the highest level. What's wonderful about sport is that it involves everybody, everybody has an opinion. Votes: 0

And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed. Votes: 0

I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music. Votes: 0

No TV show in history, no movie ever made - nothing you can imagine as being written or filmed or performed can turn a normal human being into a Dexter. Votes: 0

To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man. Votes: 0

When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because I haven't really seen any electronic music performed live in an interesting way. Votes: 0

I performed for the U.S. troops in Guantanamo Bay. And signed autographs for people who've been gone from America for so long they didn't realize that I'm not famous. Votes: 0

I didn't know what to expect, but [Alexander] Wang is a great guy. He's always invited me front row to shows, and I performed at a few of his after-parties. Votes: 0

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner. Votes: 0

The thing I like about 'Nashville,' it just happens to be about musicians, and all the music is practical, meaning it's performed at a concert or during a rehearsal. Votes: 0

Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream. Votes: 0

As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said. Votes: 0

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed. Votes: 0

Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision. Votes: 0

Youtube was the start of my career officially, although since I was 4 I've wanted to be a singer. I've performed here and there before youtube, but youtube push me much further. Votes: 0

Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording. Votes: 0

Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more. Votes: 0

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance. Votes: 0

When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life. Votes: 0

I think when you think of my films, I think hopefully you think of an extreme sort of real unfolding, real-time, performed, feeling semi-improvised, you know what I mean, all that. Votes: 0

Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings. Votes: 0

The dash helps to indicate that the two thoughts are intimately related, and it's less stodgy than a semicolon, which would have performed the same function (and who talks in semicolons?). Votes: 0

A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect. Votes: 0

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes. Votes: 0

For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear. Votes: 0

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed. Votes: 0

What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met there were people you didn't like? Votes: 0

That's the nature of sport, if you look at how Europe has performed they have found a way to win but golf is cyclical and there's not much between the teams. Votes: 0

People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can be performed in any accent in any time period. Votes: 0

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family. Votes: 0

I became hooked on 'In Treatment,' which was so finely written and performed. Such a simple idea, and yet it delved into very complex territory with real grace and humanity. Votes: 0

I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts. Votes: 0

Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress. Votes: 0

You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity. Votes: 0

I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's and performed theatre from Halifax to Vancouver and all places in between. Votes: 0

I've been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in musicals that have in turn been revived. And I'm not dead! Votes: 0

The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he's such a great artist. Votes: 0

The answer must be, I think, that the beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there. Votes: 0

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open. Votes: 0

I'm a pro! No, what I mean is I have performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. I have been all over the place. I have studied theatre for seven years. Votes: 0

Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world. Votes: 0

Nobody can truely become a leader, unless he has performed feats for God. It is only possible to ascend to spiritual heights in the Kingdom of God, if you fully exert yourself. Votes: 0

For a novelist, no matter what, it's a complete work, even if it's not published. But if you write a screenplay, and it's not performed, then it's a sad and frustrating experience. Votes: 0

In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed. Votes: 0

The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan. Votes: 0

As a result of the sacred ordinances performed in the holy house of God, no light need be permanently extinguished, no voice permanently stilled, no place in our heart permanently left vacant. Votes: 0

Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed. Votes: 0

Of all the creative acts performed by the artist, the most directly legible is drawing... it is the act that is most directly and spontaneously governed by his nervous and muscular system. Votes: 0

The Commander in Chief directs that Divine service be performed every Sunday at 11 o'clock...It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men. Votes: 0

There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess. Votes: 0

Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important. Votes: 0

...impregnation will be regarded in an entirely different manner, more in the light of a surgical operation, so that it will be thought not ladylike to have it performed in the natural manner. Votes: 0

There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession. Votes: 0

If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions altogether. Votes: 0

During my military service, I performed a sketch in which I played a flea called Max. So when critics kept misspelling my name, I decided to change it and thought, 'Ah! Max!' Votes: 0

We played for peanuts. But we did what we wanted to do, we heard what we wanted to hear, we performed what we wanted to perform, we learned what we wanted to learn. Votes: 0

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe. Votes: 0

Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work. Votes: 0

He had total love in his eyes when he performed. He was the total androgenous beauty. I would practice Elvis in front of the mirror when I was twelve or thirteen years old. Votes: 0

I performed it all the way through for people. People would say, "We love you, we want to sign you," and then there'd always be one person who'd say, "He's just a producer." Votes: 0

I haven't done any 'Fringe' shows since I was about 17. Then I performed with my youth theatre in a show where we all had this old-fashioned make-up on and giggled through our lines. Votes: 0

It's so tiring. Even though I've worn heels and performed the choreography for four years now, I'm still not used to it. When will I be used to it? In 10 years? In 20 years? Votes: 0

[The Lord] has indicated that the greatest work we parents can do is performed in our homes, and our homes can be heaven, particularly when our marriages are sealed in the house of God. Votes: 0

Magic is love. All magic should be performed out of love. The moment anger or hatred tinges your magic, you have crossed the border into a dangerous world, one that will ultimately consume you. Votes: 0

Oh, what a glory doth this world put on, for him who with a fervent heart goes forth under the bright and glorious sky, and looks on duties well performed, and days well spent. Votes: 0

Our food and our rest, our trades and our labors, are to be attended to, and all the offices of humanity performed in obedience to the will of God, for the glory of Christ... Votes: 0

In preschool, I would plan out my show-and-tell every week to be funny and exciting. Then in first grade I wrote a play, and my classmates and I performed it as a puppet show. Votes: 0

One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song. Votes: 0

We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of labor is more productive than when performed in isolation. Votes: 0

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart. Votes: 0

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it. Votes: 0

The US Army has announced that although it is true they performed mind-destroying drug tests on hundreds of soldiers in the 1960s, none of the victims have been promoted beyond the rank of lieutenant colonel. Votes: 0

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours. Votes: 0

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. Votes: 0

If the culprits are Muslim, they have twisted the teachings of Islam. Whoever performed, or is behind, the terrorist attacks in the United States of America does not represent Islam. God is not behind assassins. Votes: 0

Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World's a Stage.)"[Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company, The King's Men; taken from the first play to be performed on the new stage.] Votes: 0

Those humble but indomitable workers, to whom later generations referred by the collective name of Baale Masorah, Masters of Tradition, performed in obscurity their Herculean task of guarding the Biblical Text against loss or variation. Votes: 0

Headbangers' are people who like heavy-metal music, which is performed by skinny men with huge hair who stomp around the stage, striking their instruments and shrieking angrily, apparently because somebody has stolen all their shirts. Votes: 0

DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed . . . deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life. Votes: 0

Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks. Votes: 0

I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music. Votes: 0

All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one. Votes: 0

I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs. Votes: 0

I still can't believe that some pseudocritics continue to accuse me of having murdered tango. They have it backward. They should look at me as the saviour of tango. I performed plastic surgery on it. Votes: 0

It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies. Votes: 0

I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time. Votes: 0

It is very gratifying to see the music from 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy find a new life on the concert stage as it is performed by different orchestras and choruses throughout the world. Votes: 0

We've never performed the song live outside of recording it in the studio. That was a dream come true because Whitney, she's an icon and she's been one of my main mentors in this business. Votes: 0

Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show. Votes: 0

Beijing didn't go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing that is what stuck in my mind. I want a better Olympic finish. Votes: 0

I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's written. You write it; if you're lucky, it's performed, and that's the end of the whole thing. Votes: 0

I'm pleased that they performed as well as they did while we've been in Miami and that's about as far as it goes. Now, we've got to go home and play as well or better. Votes: 0

Marching diverts man's thoughts. Marching kills thoughts. Marching makes an end of individuality. Marching is the indispensable magic stroke performed in order to accustom people to a mechanical, quasi-ritualistic activity until it becomes second nature. Votes: 0