Things Quotes

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

I realize that things happen for a reason.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things.

Little things affect little minds.

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.

You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.