Things Quotes

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.

Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God- never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It's a pain in the ass.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

I'm a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen.

A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.

You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.