Things Quotes

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.

The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.

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.

Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.