Things Quotes

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

I feel things deeply.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.

If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him. You take a look!

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.

I like to cook things very slowly.

You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

You cannot do anything without God.It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.