Things Quotes

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile.

When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better.

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.

President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

My impact on the game was going out there and making things happen.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.