Things Quotes

Now, look, it's true, Americans do want leaders that will come to Washington, D.C. and work together to get things done, but that comes with a very important caveat, it depends what they're trying to do.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.

At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Oh gosh, I noticed dramatic changes in my body after I started doing yoga, but I also think you have to shake things up.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with.

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

I lost my ability to will things to happen.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.

Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.

A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.

The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.