Things Quotes

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't.

I love getting consumer reports. I think it's one of my favourite things, studying what people have to say about the product and then trying to make it better.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky - in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes.

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

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.