Things Quotes

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Everywhere you go you hear things that are untrue. You've just got to learn that if I don't say it, physically out of my mouth, on camera, it's not true.

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

The more things change, the more they are the same.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

I've always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that's just a knack that I've always had.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

I broke things to get attention.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.