Things Quotes

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.

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.