Things Quotes

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

I think that things happen individually first, and then collectively. It's not the other way around.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.