Things Quotes

A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.

The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

I still love things that you don't even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around five of your friends and having a good time means so much more than going out and spending hundreds of dollars.

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

Oh, I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.