Things Quotes

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

The best days I have are usually days where I'm out in the woods and something happens, like I see an amazing animal like a fox, or I get a glimpse of a wild pig or something that I never see. Or crazy things happen.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.

The more things you do, the more you can do.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

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.