Things Quotes

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

I like boring things.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

I've always been loud and obnoxious and sneaking my way into things, and so I feel like I've snuck my way onto the Lollapalooza lineup, and I'm going to sneak my way into whatever else I get to do.

I've said things and meant them, but I'm obviously a very confused person who has no idea how they feel about things.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.

People first, then money, then things.

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Do all things with love.

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.