Things Quotes

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

A lot of weird things happen to me. People call out to me on the street and I figure I know them, and I walk over. And then they start to talk about a movie, and I get so embarrassed. Sometimes they think I'm Lorraine Bracco or Laura San Giacomo or Marisa Tomei. I'm sure it happens to them all the time, too.