Things Quotes

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

I am prepared to discuss the things that I believe we need to do not just to raise the debt limit. Raising the debt limit is the easiest thing. That's one vote away. The hard thing is to show the world we are serious about putting our spending in order so we can show people we'll able to pay our bills down the road.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

I do feel like a loner but I think it's because I look at things differently than other people.

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!

You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.

Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God- never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It's a pain in the ass.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.