Things Quotes

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

Facts are stubborn things.

Little things please little minds.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.

Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.