Things Quotes

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky - in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes.

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.

I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.