Things Quotes

So the majority of Americans are conservatives. They believe in things like the Constitution. I know that's weird to some people but they believe in it.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

Things do not change; we change.

You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.

I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

I've done some pretty bad things in my life.

I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.

I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

I'm always on the go. I love doing things until I hit rock bottom. Then I need my 12 hours of sleep, and I'm on the go again.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.