Things Quotes

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in another place, a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences.

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you.

The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.

If you're not ready the moment things happen, then you're irrelevant, you might as well not go.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Now, look, it's true, Americans do want leaders that will come to Washington, D.C. and work together to get things done, but that comes with a very important caveat, it depends what they're trying to do.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.

At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

I'm fearless, I don't complain. Even when horrible things happen to me, I go on.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.