Things Quotes

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.

People first, then money, then things.

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Do all things with love.

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't.

I love getting consumer reports. I think it's one of my favourite things, studying what people have to say about the product and then trying to make it better.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.