Things Quotes

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

I'm enjoying simplifying things.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay "happened". I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened.

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

All things come round to him who will but wait.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.