Things Quotes

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

And I think that, of course, there is some dysfunction of needing to be liked or noticed or to feel part of things, something going on there for most actors. For some there's not and I think they really struggle with it.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.

I'm one of those people that thinks things happen for a reason, and you just have to look for the reason.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Things ain't what they used to be and never were.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

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.