Things Quotes

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

I look at things as 'Everything is meant to be.'

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.

When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

I definitely believe that you are drawn to certain things for inexplicable reasons, but in a very powerful way. I don't know what it is exactly, but I know that things happen kind of miraculously sometimes, and so I'm willing to believe that there's something pretty magical out there.

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.