Things Quotes

I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy being settled and working my butt off and trying to win grand slams.

Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.

I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.