Things Quotes

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Cool things happen. Ace's guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying at you.

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

There's a lot of room to grow, and the women who believe they're worth it are the ones who are going to make good things happen during the next period of WNBA growth.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.