Things Quotes

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

I may be a public figure, but really, I'm just like a guy who could be in your family and have some difficult things happen to him.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain freedom that comes along with motion.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

I hate women because they always know where things are.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

I've made apologies to people I needed to, but I can't apologise to people I don't know for things they don't understand.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.