Things Quotes

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.

People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen.

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.

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

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

I hate working out - I have to mentally push myself through it. I can get very whiny, saying things like, 'I can't do it!'

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.