Things Quotes

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren't always pretty.

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

I'd far rather talk about players. They are the people who make things happen.

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

I think that in itself, if you're a true golfer, you'll see specific things you need to work on. Much cheaper than private lessons.

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

I love what I do and I love being an athlete, but I also love all the things that have come with it.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

All things are only transitory.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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.