Things Quotes

If I were to say, "God, why me?" about the bad things, then I should have said, "God, why me?" about the good things that happened in my life.

I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

I've always been quite psychic and believe there's a reason why things happen and that we need to learn from them.

When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

I like boring things.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

I've always been loud and obnoxious and sneaking my way into things, and so I feel like I've snuck my way onto the Lollapalooza lineup, and I'm going to sneak my way into whatever else I get to do.

I've said things and meant them, but I'm obviously a very confused person who has no idea how they feel about things.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.