Things Quotes

Sometimes it can be bad to have too much family. Everybody gets involved in your problems, giving their opinion, gossiping, and making drama. But when bad things happen, they will be there to support you.

I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they're wearing.

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.

When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

A fearful man is always hearing things.

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.

The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.

There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.