Things Quotes

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.

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

If I were to say, "God, why me?" about the bad things, then I should have said, "God, why me?" about the good things that happened in my life.

I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

I've always been quite psychic and believe there's a reason why things happen and that we need to learn from them.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

I like to learn about things.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it's exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.