Unfruitful Works Quotes & Sayings

I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids. — Steve Carell

Wondering how it was that one person's absence could rob the day so wholly of its shape and meaning. — Kate Morton

Losing him would, she realised, be unlike anything she had ever experienced before. A marriage is a conspiracy, a shared aspect toward the rest of the society, a code devised over a long history of negotiation and habit. That code would vanish. Her thoughts would be unobserved, her memories would be hers alone, without the heft that comes from sharing them with another. She would become insubstantial to herself. — Matthew De Abaitua

You can't make a good deal with a bad person. — Robert L. Bloch

So tell me, okay? Tell me what you need, and tell me every single time you need it, and I'll be there. — Emily Henry

You want to play the Bogey-Man?...Part's already taken. I'm driven by demons you can't even imagine. — Pat Mills

There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world. — Noah Hawley

I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too. — Daphne Guinness

That faith the mother of all good works justifieth us, before we can bring forth any good work: as the husband marrieth his wife before he can have any lawful children by her. Furthermore as the husband marrieth not his wife, that she should continue unfruitful as before, and as she was in the state of virginity (wherein it was impossible for her to bear fruit) but contrariwise to make her fruitful: even so faith justifieth us not, that is to say, marrieth us not to God, that we should continue unfruitful as before, but that he should put the seed of his holy spirit in us (as saint John in his first epistle calleth it) and to make us fruitful. For saith Paul Ephes.2 By grace are ye made safe through faith, and that not of your selves: for it is the gift of God and cometh not of the works, lest any man should boast himself. For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesu unto good works, which God hath ordained that we should walk in them. — David Daniell

The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker. — Mary Karr

I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially ... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing. — Hans Arp

I might have been chained, starved, and beaten, yet that monster couldn't totally crush my spirit. Over and over I chose to get back up and keep going. — Michelle Knight

I wouldn't be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative. — Donna Karan